iBex Wholesale provides an instant solution for local tourist associations or other consolidators wishing to distribute availability of smaller accommodation providers from one central point. It allows for instant confirmation or on request bookings as well as enquiry only.
Properties providing a fixed allocation can be created within the account itself (an internal property) or, an existing user of our PMS or Online Plus can be added, sharing their entire inventory with the wholesaler in real time.
Each internal property can have their own login to update their rates and availability manually, and you can choose on a per property basis when ownership of the booking transfers to the property (eg immediately upon booking, or on arrival).
With the ability to mark-up a sale rate provided by the property, or by charging commission to maintain rate parity in addition to a monthly listings fee, this presents a powerful way of generating income from a well search engine optimised accommodation portal. We would also offer a reward scheme for sales referals of our iBex PMS or Online Plus products, providing consolidators with an additional valuable revenue stream.
Integrated with Sagepay or Paypal, you can take deposits in real time at the point of booking. Frequently the deposit amount would be the value due to you under your agreement with the supplier - with them collecting the balance from the guest on arrival / departure.
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.