🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Seasons, Modify Seasons
Seasons play a key role in planning and pricing strategies. They help define peak and off-peak times, allowing businesses to adjust their offerings and prices accordingly.
Understanding and utilising seasonal trends enables you to optimise your resources and maximise customer satisfaction.
Create a Season
Create and configure a new season.
Create and configure a new season.
In the Ventrata dashboard, go to Products > Seasons.
Products - Season
Press the + New Season button.
New Season
Enter a name for the season.
Season Name
If the season applies to an operator, select the operator from the drop-down field.
Operator
Select a date range based on the travel date and/or booking date.
Travel & Booking Dates
If you already have seasons configured, you can copy the rates from an existing season.
Copy Rates Across From This Season
Check the 'Availability' box if the season affects product availability.
Availability
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If the 'Availability' option is checked, the Seasons availability modifier in the General Availability tab of the product level will include this season as an option.
For more information, see Availability Management on the Product.
General Availability
Select which rate types are affected by the season.
Rate Types
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If any of the rate types are checked, the Seasons availability modifier in the corresponding tab (Retail, Commission, Wholesale, Cost, or Strike) in the Rates table will include this season as an option.
Learn more about Rates.
Rates
Select which products, resources, bands, and resellers are affected by the season.
Products, Resources, Bands & Resellers
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When no products or resources are selected, the season does not apply to any products or resources.
When no bands or resellers are selected, the season applies to all bands and resellers.
Press the Create Season button.
Create Season
Add Seasonal Pricing
Configure seasonal prices for tickets and extras.
Configure seasonal prices for tickets and extras.
Prerequisites:
At least one rate type must be selected in the season configuration.
Products to which the season applies must have the 'Season' rate modifier checked on the Pricing & Tax tab.
Rate Modifiers
Navigate to the product for which the season applies.
In the Rates table, navigate to the corresponding rate type tab, for example, Retail.
Retail
Select the newly created season from the list modifiers.
Select Season
📒 NOTE
You can specify additional modifiers alongside the season. However, avoid configuring modifiers that conflict with the season's settings (especially bands, resellers).
Set the new prices for tickets and extras.
Press the SAVE CHANGES button.
Save Changes
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You can configure seasonal pricing for multiple products in the Pricing table.