Bookings

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• Customer identification by code, name search or phone number search
• Job order details customizable per customer: fields identified as mandatory, optional or omitted.
• Reference validation capability.
• Frequent address lists.
• Entered addresses optionally saved as frequent addresses.
• Automatic rating of jobs, as well as calculation of ETD.
• Return jobs can alter one-way price by any multiple
• Several rating algorithms already available, and new ones easily added.
• Advance booking possible for any date and time in the future (sanity checking available)
• Multi-stop (a.k.a. “follow-on”) jobs supported – no practical limit on the number of stops.
• Time windows can be specified on each stop of the job (pick up “at” and “no later than”).
• Can select different services on each leg of a multi-stop or return job.
• Full event history of each job available (when, what, who, etc.)
• Job data remains on-line indefinitely - only restricted by available disk space
• Search on any combination of date, job number, customer, driver, reference, operator, location, etc.
• Optimized workflow with keyboard shortcuts permits order entry in as little as 5 seconds.
• Rapid entry of multiple bookings (“repeat” function)
• Clone any job to create a new one (even from cancelled bookings, as well as from quotes)
• Comprehensive message and query functions to track customer enquiries and complaints.
• Automatic selection of addresses from references
• Additional support for handling cash jobs to streamline caller recognition (remember callers by phone number)
• Mark any stop as the cash collection point
• Add extra charges (sundries) at time of booking
• Add up to six “goods codes” to concisely describe goods to be carried
• Enter pieces and/or weight and/or cubing – automatic cubic conversion to equivalent weight.
• Save bookings as quotesNew! for later retrieval (subject to rules governing quote lifetime)