iBex Wholesale is a fully featured booking and distribution system designed for use with the FIT market. Not only are you able to list your own suppliers with allotments and rates but you can link to growing number of suppliers and consolidators on Seekom’s Open Distribution Network. This enables you to access their inventory and dynamic rates on a shared basis without the need to obtain an allotment. This significantly increases the range of suppliers you are able to your customers with instant confirmation booking capability. iBex Wholesale caters for all wholesaler and reseller types from traditional wholesalers and inbound tour operators through to unattended web portals. It allows for instant confirmation or on request bookings as well as enquiry only. Below is a summary of the main functions and features of iBex Wholesale. Booking Screens
Use our highly customisable front end booking screens, either as a popup or iframe, or design your own screens and link to the iBex database via our web services XML interface. iBex Wholesale supports individual or multi property availability searches with priority given to properties offering instant confirmation. A gateway to real time credit card processing providers is available. Regions/Locations
Define your own regions and locations within a country, and map properties to them. Property
Maintain property descriptions, images, rates and allotments as well as promotional lead in specials. Extras
Up-sell with property extras (eg. meals etc), or sell your own defined extras. For example, offer airport transfers for all the properties located in a certain region. Categories
Assign properties to your own promotional categories (eg. Golf Escapes, Family Breaks etc). Vouchers
Generate vouchers for both rooms and extras and track voucher status (eg.redeemed and unredeemed). Invoicing
Generate invoices to customers and monitor accounts receivable. Facility to export invoice detail to accounting systems. Suppliers
Allow suppliers who provide you allotments to login in and manage rates and allotments and view bookings you have made for them. Automatically email 'confirm/reject' links to suppliers where bookings are received on request. Auto Email
Sophisticated auto email management controls distribution of emails to suppliers, customers and agents on booking creation and status changes. Email log records all auto emails sent. Rates Management
A sophisticated rates module allows single or multiple rates per room based on season, number of people, minimum stay, packages and day of week. Exchange Rate
Sell in your own currency, or the currency of your supplier, via the exchange rate manager. User Management
Provide your staff with their own secure login account with full or restricted access to iBex modules. Reporting
A large number of reports are available and many reports have exporting capability to other tools such as databases and
spreadsheets. Distribution
Set up and manage your own agency or affiliate network. It provides them with sophisticated features including the ability to provide an unattended booking service on their own website with the agent's own branding. XML web services allows direct real time interfaces to other sales partners who support such interfaces.
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