Overview
Products not sourced via a live API, so-called offline products, can be created and managed in Inventory. TripBuilder supports the following product types:
Accommodations
Transfers
Transports
Transit Activities
Stop Activities
Base Services
Rental Cars
Upsell Products
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How to access Inventory Products?
To access the product section:
Go to the Cockpit.
Click on Inventory.
Click on Products.
The supported inventory product types will be presented as menu items. These inventory products represent offline products contracted directly between the client and suppliers and unavailable for a supplier connected via a live API.
Note: While the option Accommodations - Bed Banks is also present in the inventory Products menu, this only provides read-only access to non-bookable content (general information on the accommodation, also known as NBC) imported from a bed bank or external NBC data provider. If you intend to create inventory accommodations, use the Accommodations - Own Inventory option.
Follows an overview of the available product types and references to support articles acting as introductory information, tutorials and guidelines on creating and managing such products.
Products | Description | Article |
Accommodations - Own Inventory | Manually create accommodations with your own contracted rates. | |
Transfers | A transfer in the Inventory can model any of the following means of transportation:
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Transports | Inventory transports can be used as primary connections between Departure and Arrival airports in a template, like live flight offers. At the moment, transport can be of type:
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Transit Activities | Transit activities are activities/tours that can be used between stops and might often be used to model multi-day tour packages such as:
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Stop Activities | Stop activities in the inventory model activities or tours that take place in a specific location, for example, in a city. They always start/end in the same place and can represent anything from a few hours to a multi-day tour:
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Base Services | Use base services to model additional cost items of a trip, such as:
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Rental Cars | Create rental car products that are default and exchangeable in a template. | |
Upsell Products | Create additional up-selling products that the user can add after planning in the checkout:
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Inventory products can be used in the same way as live supply products.
When inventory products are included in an itinerary, and a booking occurs, you must ensure the product is booked on your supplier. This usually follows an offline process previously defined between the client and supplier.
TripBuilder's Inventory supports a "supplier info" feature that lets you maintain a list of suppliers and assign them to inventory products, centralising supplier contacts. Learn more about this feature in the article Inventory Supplier Management.