Important Subscription Notice!
Please note that effective September 1st, 2006, all accounts that do not have valid payment information will be set to a free account. You will have access to your inventory and product data but you will not be able to accept online bookings or set pricing and availability rules. If you have not already done so, please be sure to update your credit card information before September 1st, 2006 to avoid this. Remember, you can upgrade or downgrade your subscription at anytime. Call +1-604-983-0083 or email us at support@sentias.com if you have any questions or concerns. Read More →
New Blog site for Sentias Booking Server
We have just updated the blog using Blogger.com. The simplicity of Blogger and its easy publishing functions were a great fit for the site and make posting updates a breeze. We are so excited about it that we are looking into a way to integrate Blogger’s API into the Booking Server so that tour operators can create and link their blogs directly with their booking engines. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, all the old posts have been moved the previous site and are now on the new blog, but in reverse order. Sorry about that. All new postings will appear in the right order. Read More →
Booking Server and Chambers of Commerce
We have recently started active marketing of the Booking Server with Chambers of Commerce around British Columbia. Many Chambers have asked us how the program works and I wanted to address that question here as well, so we would have a point of reference. The Sentias Booking Server Chamber Partner Program (SBSCPP) provides Chambers of Commerce with an additional revenue source without incurring undo administration or marketing costs. As an active Chamber of Commerce member, we recognized that there was a need to benefit Chambers while promoting the Booking Server. The program is modeled after... Read more »
Multiple Date/Time Inventory Items
We have been receiving a lot of feedback from Beta users who would like to have support for tour items that have multiple item slots in a day. For example, if you have a tour that runs at 9:00am, 11:00am, and 13:00pm without having to display each tour item as a seperate inventory item. We have added some modifications to the front-end to allow for this. Here is how it works… In the back-end, create your primary inventory item with all the description, image, and other information you want to display. Once you have created this item, use the “Add Similar” button in the upper... Read more »
New Layout for Booking Items
We have updated the availability display to support multiple times. It also shows the availability and pricing in a more attractive and user friendly way. Take a look at the following page to see how it works. Your feedback is always appreciated, so please feel free to leave comments. http://testcompany.booking-server.com Click on Guiding Courses and then choose August 8, 2006. (This is the day that has multiple class times) Read More →
Accepting Credit Cards with Booking Server
We will be releasing support of the following payment gateways:US Payment Gateways1. Authorize.net2. Paymentech3. VirtualPayOnline.com Canada1. Beanstream2. Moneris3. Paradata International1. Paypal The real-time credit card transaction feature means that you can receive payment for the bookings you receive online instead of having to wait for payment or having to process them offline. The built in payment gateway support includes AVS and CVV2 support which reduces the amount of online fraud and protects you from high merchant rates and chargebacks. If you do not yet accept credit card payments... Read more »
Who should resell the Booking Server?
Many individuals have been asking who would be the best group to resell the Booking Server. Should it be webmasters, designers, consultants, developers, or travel agents. Well the short answer is… all of the above. Really, it is a question of who your target customer is and what industry they are in. Obviously if you are a webmaster and your target audience is hotel and motel owners or tour operators, then you would probably be a good fit as a reseller. The reseller program is free and, although it has taken some time, is almost completely integrated with the main Booking Server system.... Read more »
How pricing and availability rules work
Price and availability rules are part of the core functionality of the Booking Server and make up the fundamentals of the business rules engine. Here is how they work: Price RulesPrice rules affect the price of a particular inventory item during a particular period of time. They can be a percentage difference or a fixed amount. For example, if you create an inventory item that is $99 and you want it to be 5% less on Saturdays, you could create a price rule for Saturdays where the Adult price is -5% and apply it to the inventory item. Ofcourse you are not limited to associating the price rule... Read more »
Web Based SEO Tools Can Drive Traffic
If you are looking for ways to drive traffic to your new Booking Server website, we recommend you take a look at the Web based SEO Tools powered by NetApplications. The Site Submitter, Search Terms, and Hitlinks are all excellent tools that are reasonably priced and are great additions to your Booking Server account. Use the http://sentias.searchterms.com to choose keywords that have a high keyword effeciency index to maximize the effectiveness of your keyword optimization or pay per click campaigns. Use the http://sentias.submitter.net to submit your new site to hundreds of search engines and... Read more »
Booking Server Website Update
We have set up a new domain for the Sentias Booking Server site. The bookings.sentias.com site has been discontinued and replaced with http://www.sentias-booking-server.com. We will continue to add more help, tutorial videos, and how tos to the new site moving forward. If you have linked to bookings.sentias.com, please update your bookmarks to point to the new website. Read More →
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