For users of the TourCMS tour operator ecommerce platform

Setting up a summary price list table on our website linked to TCMS tours/prices database

We need a page on our website with a price summary of the individual tours displayed for different party sizes and seaons, linked through to the pricing and season tables on TCMS. Is this something which could be set up by API or is there a report within TCMS would could be set up with a link to the web?

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Permalink Reply by Graham Edgeley on February 25, 2010 at 10:22am

Paul
Darren has provided the following link which demonstrates how a pricing table would work on the vw site. He will need to build this into a page type for the web so that we can add text/titles formatting etc. The data for this link is controlled by Paul on TCMS. Can we incorporate more detail, with prices for other parties of 2, 3, 4 etc. and option prices,bearing in mind the constraints of page width.

http://www.villageways.com/prices/pricesummary.php

rgds
Graham

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Permalink Reply by Paul on February 25, 2010 at 10:59am

Hi Graham,
There are additional CMS tags for things like descriptions, Options etc, all detailed in the CMS template documentation.

The layout of the page is entirely flexible, your developers should be able to design the page as you like. It's also possible to load PHP tags in the template if that helps further.

Generally for hotel type pricing (I think what you are referencing with the different prices for different party sizes?) just an initial "From" price is shown on the website, until you direct the user to the booking engine whereby they can get an accurate price for their party. If that's not sufficient do ask and we can revisit this.

Paul

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Permalink Reply by Graham Edgeley on February 25, 2010 at 12:02pm

Hi Paul

Thanks for reply. Yes ideally we need to show prices for different party sizes on the website prices page., before they are directed to the individual tour. You mentioend you could revisit this if necessary.

thanks
Graham

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Permalink Reply by Paul on February 25, 2010 at 12:05pm

No problem, is this for Tours loaded as "Hotels" ?

Paul

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Permalink Reply by Graham Edgeley on February 25, 2010 at 12:17pm

yes - this is for tours loaded as hotels

Richard has alals added following points:

Darren’s link is picking up the single traveller price.
The way I have worked the price gird under the hotel as tour option is to allow up to 6 people to share ‘1 room’. If you imagine a price grid per person charges of:

Single traveller £798; Party of 2/3 £630; Party of 4 or more £520,

The actual TCMS table aggregates the party prices and would look like this:

1 £798; 2 £462; 3 £630; 4 £190; 5 £520; 6 £520

So Darren’s link would have to pick up prices for 1; 3; and 5 or 6.

rgds
Graham