Allotments

System Data > Reservation > Allotments

Attention!

Access to this menu is controlled by the PAirSDAllotments user right. If the menu is not displayed, you may not have this right. In this case, contact your administrator.

Allotment type

System Data > Reservation > Allotments > Allotment type

You can use the Allotment types function to manage your own allotment types and assign an individual type to  each allotment in the Allotment Management (Reservation > allotments).

Use the function to divide your allotments into various segments, such as weddings, events and meetings, business events, and much more. You can arbitrarily create the allotment types in your protel Air system data and adjust them individually to meet your needs.

What's the advantage for you? You can define a separate workflow for the contract status flow for each allotment type (see section below: Contract status flow).

Creating and editing allotment types

Open the Allotments window in protel Air's system data and click on allotment type:

System Data > Reservation > Allotments > Allotment type

Click on Add to create a new allotment type; click on Edit to change an existing allotment type.

The Allotment type window opens.

Name: Enter a name, for example "Bus tours", if you want to use "Bus tours" as an allotment type.

Description: Enter a detailed description to specify the allotment type in more detail.

Sort by: Enter a number for the order sequence. The allotment type is displayed in all drop-down lists based on the defined sequence.

Example:

The sort numbers entered in the example illustration... 

...ensure, for example, that the allotment types appear in the appropriate order in the dropdown list in the Allotments dialog box:

Active checkbox: An allotment type can be deactivated by removing the check mark. Inactive allotment types are not available as selections in the software, that is, they cannot be assigned to an allotment.

XSetup: Allotment type as mandatory entry

Upon request, you can also define the Allotment type as a mandatory field:

Double-click the Allotment type mandatory entry and check the Activated checkbox.

Contract status flow

System data > Reservation > Allotments > Contract status flow

Define different workflows that specify an exact contract status flow and support the user with processing allotments.

You can easily create your individual workflows by defining the individual steps that a certain allotment type (e.g. 'bus tours') usually goes through at your hotel.

Several steps together represent the contract status flow, which you can define for each allotment type.

XSetup: Activate contract status flow

The administration of individual contract status flows for various allotment types must be activated using the following system settings:

Double-click the Force allotment workflows entry and check the Activated checkbox.

Important!

The Force allotment workflows XSetup must always be set in combination with the Allotment type mandatory XSetup (both entries must be set to "activated")!

After activating the function, the user must always select an allotment type and the current step for each allotment. The steps are predefined by the respective contract status flow (see below: Setting up the contract status flow).

Setting up the contract status flow

In the protel Air System data, select the Reservation menu point and then the Allotments submenu.

Then click on the Contract status flow tab:

System data > Reservation > Allotments > Contract status flow

IMPORTANT

The information displayed is ALWAYS related to the allotment type that has been selected above:

In the example, the Tour Operators allotment type has been selected.

By default, the allotment type with the lowest sort number is always preselected (see above: Creating and Editing Allotment Types | Sort by)

Creating new contract status flow

System data > Reservation > Allotments > Contract status flow

In the Allotments system data dialog box, click on the Contract status flow tab.

At the top of the window, select the allotment type for which you want to create a new contract status flow - see the following screenshot:

Click on [Add] to add a new contract status flow.

The Contract status flow window opens

Please enter the following information (fields marked by an asterisk* are mandatory):

Sort Order: Enter a number for the order sequence. The step is displayed in the order specified here.  We recommend entering in steps of ten, i.e. 10 for step 1, 20 for step 2, 30 for step 3, etc.  This makes it easier to sort later, if necessary, or to classify new steps!

Description: Enter a detailed description to specify the contract step in more detail.

Allotment status Enter an allotment status that is to be assigned to the allotment when this contract step has been selected.

Reservation status: Enter an allotment status that is to be assigned to the allotment when this contract step has been selected.

Pick up: Select this checkbox if the allotment is to be set to Pick up for this contract step.

Example:

Organize the number of steps - one after the other - that the contract status flow is to have.

A completed contract status flow could look something like this: