Seaware For
Cruise Lines
Seaware provides an integrated platform to cruise lines that maximizes efficiency through sales, marketing, and revenue yield management capabilities.
Core Capabilities
Seaware reservation platform offers world-class cruise lines comprehensive revenue optimization, packaging capabilities, seamless integration with corporate websites, and unique capabilities for managing marketing and sales programs.
Reservations
- Individual and group bookings.
- Multiple cabins and ships on one booking.
- Individual, per guest itinerary.
- Elaborate packaging capabilities.
- Shopping by attribute.
- Book custom cruise segments (embark/disembark).
- Customizable user interface for different channels.
Product Management
- Any number and types of products.
- On board dining, conference room, workshops, spa treatment with detailed schedule and capacity control.
- Hotel as room allotments, on request or free sale basis.
- Transportation support (air, transfers, bus connection, etc.).
- Support or add-ons (miscellaneous items and services) with capacity control.
- Allotments of cabins.
- Support for simple or complex routes (trips lasting a few hours to multi-day trips).
- Support for custom cruise segments.
- Land packages.
- Shore excursions.
- Packaging capability (optional and mandatory components).
Guest Management
- Extensive guest profile.
- Household (family) concept.
- Guest onboard preferences.
- Unlimited classification and grouping of clients.
- Suggest products and upsell based on the profile.
- Guest referral program.
- Guest’s travel history, including on board spend.
- Online integration with Salesforce.
Loyalty Program
- Flexible rule-based loyalty program to earn/redeem.
- Multiple loyalty programs per guest.
- Earn points using any criterion.
- Earn points for external spend/activities.
- Redeem points using any criterion.
- Pay with a combination of points and money.
- Affinity programs with other companies.
Sales Channels
- Responsive and mobile ready for all channels (B2C| B2B| CC).
- All booking channels (B2C, B2B, CC) are ready from day one.
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Consumers, on board consultants and agencies can comfortably work using their mobile devices.
Rules-Based Business Functions
- Pricing/discounting/promotions.
- Payment schedule and cancellation policies.
- Commissions.
- Taxes and fees.
- Insurance.
- Sales and marketing messages.
- Business policy validation.
- Selling limits.
- Finance/accounting and GL integration.
- Guest certificates and coupons.
- Guest ticketing/documentation.
- Add-on products and services.
- Reservation auto notification and changes.
- Loyalty programs (earn & redeem).
- Multi-company support.
- Invoice items and costs.
Facility Management
- Table information and capacity control (number of seats).
- Dining configuration: Sit down, buffet, self-service.
- User definable restaurant seating with time and cleaning slots.
- Ship room: name, capacity, cleaning, etc.
- Ship rooms layout: Effective dates/times and occupancy.
- Time-slots inventory driven.
Schedule & Itinerary Management
- Wizards to help quickly create recurring itineraries.
- Easily setup and change schedule/itinerary without stopping operations.
- Quick ship or voyage substitution with automated (rule-based) reservations transfer from ship-to-ship or voyage-to-voyage.
- Automatic notification (by e-mail or SMS) of affected passengers.
Inventory Management
- Daily cabin inventory.
- Flexible and unique probability logic (Versonix patented technology).
- Cabins allotment support (allocation of inventory to agencies or other channels).
- Ability to reserve/block cabins for special user definable needs or voyages.
- “Nested” categories setup (combine categories for an availability request).
- Automated cabin assignment optimization algorithm “Simulated Anealing”.
- Easy way to switch cabins between categories on recurrent basis.
- Custom segments and overlapping cruises.
- Waitlist support.
- Fire Zone functionality (guest max, passenger in cabin limitation).
Analytics & Reporting
- Data warehouse (customizable ETL (Target DB -Oracle or MS SQL Server).
- Native integration with Jaspersoft Reports and Tableau.
- Business intelligence – improve and optimize internal business processes.
Pricing Management
- Flexible business rules-based pricing (based on product, market, guest profile, season, demand, travel agency profile, group price etc.).
- Support for dynamic pricing models based on booking curves, days before departure, inventory filling rate, ship utilization, etc.
- Easily adjusted pricing to react to market demand.
- Ability to price per cabin segment, person, day, hour, number of stops, etc.
- Easily create promotions with eligibility and capacity control.
- Support for promotion combinability (can be at reservation or guest level).
- Support for percentage or flat discount (can be applied to specific price components).
Agency Management
- Detailed profile.
- Rule-based commission management (basic, bonus % can vary by product, agency performance, market, cabin generic category etc.).
- Commission split between multiple agencies.
- Ability to associate specific commissions, payment schedule, insurance and cancellation policy with a specific promotion.
- Net rate, tour operator rate.
- Agencies hierarchy support.
- Performance monitoring/history.
- Pay commissions for various components at different times.
- Loyalty program support for corporate customers.
- Individual travel agent recognition.
- Profile duplication reduction and merge capability.
Financials
- User-definable forms of transactions.
- Transfer of funds.
- Cash register.
- Online card processing; tokenization at client and transaction levels.
- Scheduling future payments with credit cards.
- Manual/automated component payments.
- Refund approval process; automated/manual.
- Support for multiple currencies; Pricing, Transactions, GLs, Agencies.
- Invoicing for credit agencies (agreement); credit limits.
- Calculation of tour credit (free berths) for groups, sail, bookings.
- Commission: Basic, Tier, VAT, Bonus, GSA, Payout at multiple levels.
- GL entries: daily, full payment, coupon, recognize revenue by sail, GL period, cancellations, insurance.
- Allocate funds to specific owners (Departments/Partners/Product owner).
- Automated features for closing accounting periods.
- Automated process to recognize modifications after closing.
- Interface to a GL system (such as SAP, Navision, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft, etc.).
Interfaces & Distribution
INTERFACES:
- Finance (SAP, Navision, Oracle Fin, PeopleSoft, etc.).
- On board systems.
- Graph QL API for custom interfaces.
- Amadeus for Air.
DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS:
- Web B2B, B2C (including tablet and mobile).
- Sabre Cruise, Amadeus Cruise, Revelex, Traveltek, etc.
- Cruise OTA API (agencies, wholesalers, etc.).
- Online Salesforce integration.
Yield & Revenue Management
- Fully integrated yield and revenue management functionality.
- Define price levels to open/close promotions and/or apply discounts based on ship utilization and other business conditions.
- Define booking curves based on budget and outlook to open/close promotions and/or discounts based on utilization and other conditions.
Maximize Efficiency with Versonix
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