pros group sales optimizer revolutionize your group business
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pros group sales optimizer revolutionize your group business
PROS GROUP SALES OPTIMIZER REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR GROUP BUSINESS UNLOCK YOUR DATA • UNLEASH YOUR SALES 1 PROS GROUP SALES OPTIMIZER REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR GROUP BUSINESS Group business used to be viewed as a way to fill distressed inventory. Now it’s becoming a significant source of increased revenue. How effective is your airline’s process of requesting, evaluating, booking, and managing groups? For a lot of airlines it can take days and even weeks to process group requests. However, without direct access, buyers who experience long delays might shop elsewhere. In addition, inconsistent group prices calculated from arbitrary price points prevent you from achieving optimal revenue—something no airline can afford. Now you can increase group closure rates by providing your customers with fast, accurate group pricing. Leveraging the science of real-time dynamic pricing at the core of this end-to-end solution, PROS Group Sales Optimizer is a new, unique, and comprehensive group revenue optimization solution that enables you to increase group sales effectiveness and maximize overall group revenue. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH PROS GROUP SALES OPTIMIZER? INCREASE GROUP REVENUE AND BOOKINGS. It’s time to run group travel as efficiently as you run individual passenger travel. Leveraging the power of scientific pricing, PROS Group Sales Optimizer increases group revenue and bookings by allowing customers, travel agents, and your own sales offices to book groups directly through the system. STREAMLINE THE BOOKING PROCESS. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR GROUP PRICING. Until now, group reservations required multiple layers of approval, creating customer booking delays of up to a week or more. Not anymore. PROS Group Sales Optimizer provides your airline and travel agents with a fast, easy, and automated process for booking group travel. No more arbitrary price lists. With PROS Group Sales Optimizer you create rules that affect the final group price, while remaining consistent with your current overall revenue management strategies. 3 PROS GROUP SALES OPTIMIZER IS PERFECT FOR AIRLINES THAT WANT TO KNOW: • How do we maximize our group revenue? • How can we respond to group requests faster and easier? • How do we provide accurate and real-time offers for group requests that are consistent with individual pricing? 4 • What’s the best way to provide our customers with an improved and consistent customer experience? PROS Group Sales Optimizer is a new, unique, and comprehensive group revenue optimization solution that enables you to increase group sales effectiveness and maximize overall group revenue. WHAT’S INCLUDED SCIENCE-BASED PRICING • Optimize your fares. Prices are scientifically selected from a continuous price curve, rather than from arbitrary, discrete price points. • As customer requirements change, PROS Group Sales Optimizer adjusts quickly to offer the best fare options available at any given point in time. FAST, AUTOMATED GROUP BUYING • Move from days to book a group reservation to mere seconds, mirroring the individual ticket-purchase experience. • Give customers instant fare options with a range of prices and flight times, placing choices directly in their hands. AN AWESOME SALES HUB • Provide a seamless buying experience. Now travel agents, sales representatives, and revenue management analysts can use a simple, centralized user interface, allowing access to all relevant information, including group ticket history. • Increase the likelihood of customer purchases, with automation that reduces service costs. AUTOMATIC CONTRACTS • Speed the booking process with automatically generated contracts for group reservations, including pre-defined terms and conditions. • Travel agents gain the flexibility of confirming passenger names at their convenience, without the requirement for creating complete passenger name records (PNR) at the time of booking. 5 HOW IT WORKS 6 1. An easy-to-use, webbased sales interface provides airline sales offices and travel agencies with a central location to create group requests, where travel parameters for the request are specified. 2. Group requests are filtered through a real-time dynamic pricing engine, which is consistent with individual pricing strategies. 3. Analysts can create rules that affect the final group price and make changes on the fly when needed. 4. Once booked, the system generates group contracts automatically, which include the appropriate terms and conditions, deposit deadlines, ticketing time limits, and can even provide deadline alerts. About PROS PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a big data software company that helps customers outperform in their markets by using big data to sell more effectively. We apply over two decades of data science experience to unlock buying patterns and preferences within transaction data to reveal which opportunities are most likely to close, which offers are most likely to sell and which prices are most likely to win. PROS offers big data solutions to optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue management across more than 40 industries. PROS has implemented more than 700 solutions in more than 55 countries. The PROS team comprises more than 900 people around the world. To learn more, visit pros.com. PROS.com Copyright © 2014, PROS Inc. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. 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