Why use the supplier database?

The Supplier Database is a powerful tool designed to help you stay organised and in control of your business costs. By adding your suppliers (eg. hotel or tour operator) and entering the cost of their products (eg. hotel room or day tour)—along with the margin or markup you'd like to apply when selling to clients—you can:

• Organise your suppliers (e.g. hotels, tour operators, or transfer companies).

• Easily manage the costs of products or services that suppliers charge your business (e.g. hotel rooms, street food tours, or airport transfers) and monitor your profit margins

• Have the ability to show different descriptions of suppliers and supplier products at proposal stage and upcoming trip stage.

• Quickly add supplier products or services to itineraries, without the need to duplicate information.

• Quickly request updated pricing from suppliers.

• Send booking requests to suppliers in just a few clicks.

Is adding supplier products to the supplier database different from creating template cards?

Yes! As mentioned above, you can't use the supplier database without adding the cost of the supplier products.

If you do not wish to add costs to your itinerary items, an alternative is to create your commonly used itinerary cards (ie. itinerary items) to your Template Card database. Once you have created a template card, you can quickly add it to any itinerary and it pulls through all the information you already input when creating the card. You can still add costs and a markup or margin to the template cards should you wish to do so.