Overview

For inventory products, it is possible to define different rate type categorisations for each service or room category. If an accommodation product has distinct rates for FIT or Groups, it is no longer required to create two distinct products in inventory for each of them.

Manage Rate Type in Inventory

When managing the pricing of an inventory product, it is possible to set different rate types per service category. 

Rate Types

• General Rate
  • A rate that can be used in any type of template.
• Group Rate
  • A rate that can only be used for Group Tour templates. 
• Flexible Individual Rate
  • A rate that can only be used for FIT templates. 

Products with Amenities

All products with Amenity support (e.g. activities, accommodations) also include the rate type classification. 

Itinerary Instantiation in Planner

The definition of rate types in the inventory products will define the rules of each product service category that can be selected: 

• Group Tour Templates
  • Allow the selection of product categories with General and Group rates. 
• Individual Tour Templates
  • Allow the selection of product categories with General and FIT rates
• From-scratch Itineraries
  • Allow the selection of product categories with General and FIT rates

For example, taking an itinerary from scratch allows one to search only for room categories containing general or FIT rates.

This principle is also applied to amenities in the hotel. So any room category or amenity, with Group Rates categorisation, is filtered out from the room categories offers list, as per the definition in the inventory accommodation product. 

Customer Care

On the itinerary detail page for Markups, we display the respective rate type for each product.

Reports

The inventory reports also display the information about rate type in a dedicated column. The attribute is displayed in the following reports:

• Accommodation Inventory Report
• Transfer Inventory Report
• Transit Activity Inventory Report
• Stop Activity Inventory Report