In this video, we will explain the concept of suppliers in TourCMS.
Transcript
Hello! In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a supplier within TourCMS. The supplier function is a very useful option in TourCMS because it gives your partners the possibility to create their own tools within your TourCMS account. This allows you to sell their tools directly without having to create them yourself.
Creating a New Supplier
To create a new supplier, we go to the Partners tab and choose Suppliers. Then we just enter the name for the new supplier and click on Create. The supplier is created, and now you can see it here already.
You can add some more information to this supplier file:
- You could enter a code if you want.
- You must enter a web address for the supplier.
- You can assign a tax sheet to the supplier if necessary.
- You can also upload a small logo here.
- You can put in some further information like contact name, telephone number, fax (if still required), and an email address for new bookings and sales.
- You can also check or uncheck if the supplier should receive notification emails for confirmed and cancelled bookings.
- You can set up a different email address for invoices and account-related issues.
- You can enter the postal address.
- And then you can provide a company description, certifications, policies, and terms in these fields.
So once you have entered all the necessary information, you just save the changes, and your supplier is set up already.
Configuring a Supplier User
Now, in order to make this work, you would need to configure a supplier user. So, for that, we'll just go to Users in our menu. And we would create a new user here: first name, surname, email address, username, and a password. And then we would just set it as a supplier user and assign it to the correct supplier. Once you have done this, your supplier user will be created. And also here, you can edit some more information and give and take permissions as needed. So once you have done this, your supplier account is set up and ready to use.
Your supplier will receive an email with the credentials, and once he receives the email, he will be able to log into your account with his supplier credentials. And as you can see, it's a limited version of TourCMS. It's a little smaller; there are not so many options on the menu. But the supplier can easily create a new tour. So all the tools a specific supplier creates will be visible only to the supplier, and only he will see, he will only see his own tools. So the tour is set up as a normal tour with all the parameters you need to set up. And once the tool is created, the supplier could also do bookings for this tool.
And also, now that we have set up this tool, I have already prepared for the video. Now this tour is already set up, our supplier tour. So if you log in to your account again, you will see in your tools that you have access to the supplier tool we just created on the other side. And this is how to set up a supplier in TourCMS.