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Change of currency 1 Reply
Hi I'm based in Estonia, which will adopt the Euro as of Jan 1. I'd really like to be able to change the base currency from Crowns to Euros. From previous discussions with Alex I gather that this is…
Started by Andrew in Booking engine setup and web design. Last reply by Alex Bainbridge 6 hours ago.
What would help you market your tours more using TourCMS tools? 3 Replies
TourCMS can be used for all sorts of different purposes. Some use it to bring some control to an office, some to control availability, others to take online bookings and act as a website CMS. If you…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Actief in Tsjechie 11 hours ago.
Feature your tours/activities on 2 or more UK newspaper websites (travel sections)
Here is an example from the London Evening Standard The Peace of Angkor tours listed above come via TourCMS.... To see the page for real, look at: http://holidayoffers.standard.co.uk/Angkor.xht t…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in TourCMS Marketplace & XML API 1 day ago.
Extra booking data fields - display order 4 Replies
Hi, we are building up quite a list of extra booking data fields and I'm finding it difficult to work out the best display order that suits our use.Is the list on the set-up booking data page in nume…
Started by A-M C in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by A-M C Aug 25.
'Long Description' 2 Replies
HiCan anyone enlighten me as to the use of the 'long description' on both the tour and the option set up. I ought to know the answer as I have been using TourCMS for so long, but I don't, so would be…
Started by A-M C in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by A-M C Aug 25.
Country Information on Enquiry Form 2 Replies
Hi - I was just wondering if it was possible to change the format of the country information on the enquiry form from the 2 letter code format to a drop down menu, the same as on the booking form? Th…
Started by Veronica Weisz in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Veronica Weisz Aug 24.
use free infants on hotel booking 4 Replies
Hi all, If we use free infants on hotel setup then we get the adult number of adults and the number of infants not nicely in one line in the booking engine. Anyone got the same problem and maybe so…
Started by Actief in Tsjechie in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Actief in Tsjechie Aug 23.
rental tents on different camp sites 4 Replies
Hi Alex, Can you help us here: we rent out tents on different camp sites. Let's say we have 10 tents available for 4 different camp sites. If e.g. 10 tents are rented out on one camp site the availa…
Started by Actief in Tsjechie in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Actief in Tsjechie Aug 23.
get the a availability chart with 'show_tour_freesale' 3 Replies
Hi All,I'm new in working with TourCms, so I need a bit of guidance.I'm trying to get the tour's availability chart in xml format, but with no success. Any help is welcome.Thanks in advance,Barni
Tagged: show_tour_freesale, chart, availability
Started by Biro Szilard Barna in TourCMS Marketplace & XML API. Last reply by Paul Slugocki Aug 23.
Real example of the TourCMS Marketplace working in practice (Adnet) 4 Replies
Thought it would be worthwhile showing how the TourCMS Marketplace works in practice. See those 2 Armenian tours listed there? Those images and tour descriptions come from TourCMS data and are feat…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in TourCMS Marketplace & XML API. Last reply by Warren Garber Aug 18.
Wondered what a TourCMS word means? We now have a glossary!
Here you gohttp://www.tourcms.com/support/setup/glossary/ useful reference is you are starting to learn TourCMS and want to know the difference between an affiliate and an agent or a room and a rat…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in General discussion & suggestions Aug 15.
Use of email in Tour CMS 4 Replies
Hi, Just going through the final stages of configuring TourCMS for a golf tour business. This will involve moving from Microsoft tools. My question how do you old hands use e-mail. Do you move over t…
Started by Mel Palmer in Booking engine setup and web design. Last reply by Mel Palmer Aug 13.
August 2010 development plans for TourCMS 1 Reply
Lots of great feedback and requests coming for TourCMS enhancementsJust for some clarity and openness, here is what we are working on over the next couple of weeks * Hotel rooms - able to have a des…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Neil Lapping Aug 13.
Lead in prices for ski chalets where whole chalet can be booked 5 Replies
We have some logic for the ski chalet lead in prices If a "whole chalet" room is available, the lead in price comes from that (a whole chalet room is where the entire chalet is booked, rather than be…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Vicki Roberts Aug 12.
Set up Private Tours along with Scheduled Tours 6 Replies
Hi All,I have been using Tour CMS for scheduled tours, and it has been working extremely well. However we also do private tours (mainly for cruise passengers), and I've up to date I have just used Go…
Started by Andrew in Booking engine setup and web design. Last reply by Dana Ronan Aug 11.
In-resort / mobile information - Feedback welcome 3 Replies
Hi all, Would be great to get some feedback on this. Currently there are some popular reports in TourCMS for displaying "Arrivals", "Departures" and "In resort" type information. The sort of thing…
Tagged: information, mobile
Started by Paul Slugocki in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Zohar Nadler Aug 9.
Uploading of PDF documents 13 Replies
Most of our materials are in PDF either due to our product providers supplying them in this format or us generating them. These would be used to allow for branded itineraries, etc. An important facto…
Tagged: PDF
Started by Grant in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Michelle M Aug 5.
API Retuns No Results 1 Reply
Hi, We recently upgraded to a paying account. We have tours set up with dates in future. I'm using the API via simplexml per the examples given in the documentation. I can connect to the TourCMS…
Started by Michelle M in General discussion & suggestions. Last reply by Alex Bainbridge Aug 5.
Adding extra details to a tour 'extra' 8 Replies
Hi, I'm looking into the possibility of adding an options to 'Weekend Tours' where customers can buy a t-shirt of jumper for the trip. ( like a 'England Trip November 2010' type of thing) Obvious the…
Tagged: clothing, sizes, feature, plugin, details
Started by John Atherden in Booking engine setup and web design. Last reply by Alex Bainbridge Aug 4.
Hands on training session - Thursday 5th August 2010 (Webinar)
Details on this page http://www.tourcms.com/company/events_trainin idea will be that all those present in the webinar will, each in their own account, setup TourCMS to the point where they can make a…
Started by Alex Bainbridge in General discussion & suggestions Aug 2.
Blog Posts
23rd August 2010 - New release - Setup widgets on your own website plus other tweaks
API / Widgets
* Newly rewritten documentation and examples (with sample code) including two hotel live availability search examples. Now very easy to do a hotel/villa search with you just needing to buy a few hours web design services (from your own web designer) to integ… Continue
Posted by TourCMS team on August 23, 2010 at 3:03pm
12th August 2010 - New release - Changes to hotel products and a few other tweaks
Hotel products
* Display infant / child ages (for a property) in the online booking engine. Can be set by the property
* Able to configure "free infants" for hotel rooms - they count as children for occupancy rules but are priced free
* New hotel price rule - 1-2 adults per person then 3rd adult, 4th adult
* Show multiple durations on step 1 of the booking engine - i.e. show 2 night, 3… Continue
Posted by TourCMS team on August 12, 2010 at 12:56pm
29th July 2010 - New release - More hotel price logic, new APIs and single occupancy rules
Booking engine
* Zero priced options on step 2 of the booking engine now show their prices as blank (rather than showing zero price)
* Turn options into questions - e.g. useful for pickup points, accommodation choice, t-shirt size etc. Can be an input box or a dropdown. The customer provided answer will be added to the end of the option name so will appear in your reports / booking documentation etc… Continue
Posted by TourCMS team on July 29, 2010 at 8:45am — 2 Comments
14th July 2010 - New release - Agent login and other tweaks
API, Marketplace, agents and tracking
* Tour search - products are automatically removed from the tour search API reply if they have error 404'ed more than 10 times in a row. This normally happens when you haven't set up a URL for the tour information page. Products automatically are returned again once the issue is resolved.
* Now showing average… Continue
Posted by TourCMS team on July 14, 2010 at 9:21am — 1 Comment
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