Tripz Systems Blog

I’m happy to announce that we have released Tripz v6.5.1910 to all of our customers.

It includes the TourBuilder enhancement I spoke about in my last post and adds a few new features as well. We have increased the performance of TourBuilder by over 90% with this release. This is a significant milestone for us as TourBuilder is a very important and heavily used module by our customers.

We plan to host a webinar shortly showing clients how to take advantage of this latest Tripz update.

Kurt

Since we built the TourBuilder module several years ago, we’ve been impressed with how it has made life easier for many of you.

However, with success comes the need to continually improve and reinvent if one is to stay on the leading edge. We’ve noticed that a number of you have been working with larger worksheets (>20 items) and this has caused TourBuilder to not work as quickly as you would have liked.

Well we listened and we have delivered.

We have moved all of the automatic functions that were slowing things down to their own button “Update Calculations.”  This means worksheets now load in a fraction of the time they used to.  And it also means that you are no longer bogged down when you are moving around the worksheet making changes on the fly. You simply click on “Update Calculations” when you want to update with the latest changes.

We will be sending out builds for beta testing by key clients. Once we’re happy we have addressed any issues we will include this in the next Tripz release.

Cheers,

Kurt
Chief Tripzer

Our favourite cloud partner, Google, has made a huge leap forward that will benefit Tripz clients who make use of the Google cloud for storing files.

Now you can use  Google Docs to store ANY file online. In turn these can be linked to customer, vendor, agent and tour records in Tripz.

This is a HUGE advancement for Google and the Document Management capabilities in Tripz.

Today we hit a major milestone just in time for Christmas. We launched Tripz v6.5 to our existing customers.

Christmas is about giving and sharing

This is the culmination of 4 months of hard work by our team to bring a number of core feature enhancements to the Tripz platform. At the highest level we have added:

• Full handling of complimentaries to the Tourbuilding process
• Automatic handling of online agent bookings with commissions, taxes and the production of net rate invoices
• New Business Rules Module for handling complicated tax charging and rebating scenarios in Canada
• Automatic quantity checking for fixed cost items when quoting groups of different sizes
• New Document Management System in Tripz via integration with Google Apps

With this release Tripz is truly becoming an enterprise-class tour management system for the small and medium-sized operator.  You now have a system that can manage all of the key areas of automation. And with the addition of document management and the automatic handling of comps there are substantial cost savings that you will realize by using Tripz.

Consider this as our Christmas gift to our valued clients who have helped us to get where we are today.

Cheers,

Kurt
Lead Tripzer

I am pleased to announce that we have a brand spanking new Document Management System in Tripz.  Instead of reinventing the wheel and relying on older ways of doing things we are providing you with a modern-style document management system that uses the Internet, or what some call “The Cloud,” for document storage.

Google Docs Integration (click to enlarge)

We have integrated Tripz with Google Docs, the online document and collaboration management system from Google. This is the hottest document system on the planet right now and it allows you to do things that you couldn’t do with older technology. You can create a document, spreadsheet or presentation from within Tripz using Google Apps, save a document as a PDF file and link it to your tour and contact information in Tripz.

You can link a document to:

• A customer contact
• A customer organization
• A group
• A vendor contact
• A vendor organization
• An agent contact
• An agent organization
• A tour

This was a big feature request from existing and prospective customers that we have now fulfilled. So you can now do more work in one place in Tripz and link all of your key documents to the vital tour and contact information you work with everyday.

Cheers,

Kurt
Lead Tripzer