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Consultant Guide

Manage clients, search GDS inventory, create bookings, and generate documents.

Client Management

Add, edit, and organise your client database with contact details and travel preferences.

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GDS Hotel Search

Search live hotel availability from RateHawk, pick a bookable room rate, and understand markup and the 40-minute rate hold.

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GDS Flight Search

How the flight search form works, and why it returns no results today because no flight GDS is connected.

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GDS Car Rental Search

How the car rental search form works, and why it currently returns no vehicles.

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Multi-Service Bookings

Build a client basket on the GDS multi-service page, then generate a quotation or send a hotel to the booking queue.

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Quotations

Create, send, and track quotations through draft, sent, accepted, rejected, expired and converted.

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Invoices

Create invoices manually or by converting an accepted quotation or an issued voucher, send them, and record payments.

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Vouchers

Issue client travel vouchers: automatically from GDS bookings, generated from a booking, or created manually.

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Itineraries

Build detailed day-by-day itineraries and share them with clients as PDFs.

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Supplier Payments

Prepare supplier requests, record ZAR advances, apply them to invoices and record unused refunds received. Understand approval and source evidence.

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Commission Tracking

How commission is calculated from the company rate and calculation base, and every screen in the app where you can see it.

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Document Delivery

Send quotations, invoices, vouchers and itineraries to clients by email or in-app portal notification, and what the delivery status actually means.

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Booking Queue and GDS Finalisation

Claim booking requests, set the markup, raise the supplier payment, and finalise a RateHawk hotel booking through to a confirmed supplier order.

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The Rate Lifetime Window

Why a booking attempt holds exactly one pre-booked rate, how the 40-minute countdown works, and how to re-select a current rate when it expires.

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Cancellation Requests

Review, approve and deny client cancellation requests, including refund amounts, supplier cancellation and what happens to the money.

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Messaging Clients

Use the Messages inbox and the Chat button to hold booking-linked conversations with clients, and track unread counts in the nav.

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Managing Suppliers

Add supplier records under Bookings > Suppliers, including the bank details that supplier payment requests copy from them.

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Recording Client Payments

Record money received from clients against their invoices under Documents > Payments, including part payments.

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Reports and My Performance

Use the Analytics menu to review booking value, booked commission, conversion and top clients, and export the data as CSV.

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