Bulk update forward season supplier rates somehow
in discovery
Customers want the ability to bulk update rates so the task of updating next seasons rates is not so time consuming.
Can AI help?
Rates are provided by suppliers in wildly different formats and saved as PDF. Word. Excel, CSV, Slides or sometimes just as email content.
We need to interpret the hotel rate data, sometimes make calculations to add or deduct taxes or commission variables then add using the Tourwriter import CSV file or one by one manually into Tourwriter.
As an example
When we are loading the new rates seasons for a product (for accommodation mainly) eg. Superior Suite, we load the option (eg Double Room) with 4-5 different date bands and rates, from here we need to be able to copy that option’s pricing and dates to other options within that product, eg. Twin Room, Single Room etc. At the moment, we enter the exact same dates and rates up to 4-5 times for each date band and then duplicate this a further 4 times into each option. That equates to duplicating 12-20 sets of rates (depending on the amount of options) that are normally the same, unnecessarily. Making each Product within a Supplier 4 times as long to enter as it should be.
Jason Bragg
in discovery
Jason Bragg
The first stage of a better way to bulk update rates somehow was release last week. We have enabled a CSV import. Details here https://learn.tourwriter.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-to-import-supplier-rates-csv
Are next stage involves investigating a few different things. One of them is integrating with rate feeds or XML or consolidators... If you have ideas add them to here https://tourwriter.canny.io/feature-requests/p/integrate-with-suppliers-for-rates-using-api-or-xml-or-something-else
We are also investigating how AI can interpret rate PDFs/CSV and convert the data into a format that cvan be imported in Tourwriter.
Let us know your thoughts.
Jason Bragg
under review