If you have a dynamic, growing company that needs access to a professional reservations
and tour management system then the new Proteus Express product is the solution that you
need. Built on years of experience and industry input and now this functionality is available
at an affordable cost without compromising scalability. Future proofing is assured with an
upgrade path to the Corporate product that requires no data changes or loss.

Background of Proteus Express

Proteus has been providing solutions to the travel, leisure and hospitality industry for
many years and our core products have always evolved and moved with the advances
in technology. The new Express product range leverages on this vast experience and the
back end core of the new products is based on the rich functionality of the high end
systems we have produced over the years.

So,although we have produced a new system that requires less resources and is not
dependent on maintenance by IT staff, the core is still the proven program and therefore
does not come with the issues that usually accompany a new product.

It is because of this that Express product line is being released as part of version 8.0
of the Corporated product.

What this means is that for a minimal capital expenditure you will have a system with
rich functionality not normally available for the price. Also, the scalability to grow without
having to replace systems in the future as the company grows.

Key New Features of Proteus Express
* New light weight browser based reservation screen
* Affordable yet fully featured
* Included Consumer Sales Web Site
* Simple, but powerful search facilities through the system
* Minimal requirements - just needs to run a browser (Windows, Mac, Linux)
* Tour promotions structure to highlight specials
* Ability to sell in other than local currency
* Includes Paypal support

Navigate Master File set up via a single entry point and selection tree
* A wizard product built feature makes life simple for first time users
* Advanced users can get to all features configuration easily

Manage travel inventory easily
* Optionally use wizard interfaces for quick creation of inventory limits
* Manage inventory directly by the day, period or season

Sell F&B, Retail and tour products on a simple touch-screen POS terminal
* Touchscreen, Barcode scan or any standard pointing device to select
* Supports standard POS hardware and peripherals
* Optionally assign colors and graphics to tour products on POS terminals
* Any number of products on screen, dynamically positioned
* Restrict Products Sold at each location
* Assign Employees to working locations
* Full POS functionality such as integrated credit cards and Table Tracking
* Some sample Screen shots of the touch screen POS follows.

Standard features include:

Sales and reservations
* Control selling of products by sales location
* POS/ticketing interfaces
* Group handling
* Reporting by sales locations
* Reporting by employee
* Capture demographic data on guests
* Detail Audit trail capture on all booking changes
* Internal notes for manual history of booking and passenger interaction

Dynamic packaging of tours
* Pre-defined or created on the fly
* No limits on the number of components
* Maintain and sell internal and 3rd party products
* Configure generic products linked to specific

Wide range of manifests available
* by tour
* by bus route
* by agent
* by passenger

Seat and cabin allocation

Advance reporting
* Over 300 standard reports available

User-defined ‘transport units’
* Bats, buses, aircraft, any mode of transport

Accommodation booking
* Inventory management by rooms and room categories

Agent management
* Commission controlled at all levels by range, special commissions by product etc
* Net rates
* Discounts
* Optional agent portal for self service

Sophisticated tour/price matrix
* Control seasonal or special pricing by date range
* Controlled by standard fare basis, dates, type of guest etc
* Multi-currency support

Load and capacity management
* Control by date or time
* Multi-level hierarchical inventory control
* Ability to control yield management using ‘slice and dice’ of inventory
* Wizard set up for rapid limit management

Documentation
* Ticketing - both by attendant and self-serve kiosk
* Large selection of confirmation letters
* Barcoded vouchering and confirmations
* Itineraries
*eMail of documentation

Bus routes and pickup management
* Manifestion
* Bus route scheduling
* Output of manifests for electronic transmission to other systems

Financials
* Cash reporting by sales location
* Accounts receivable
* Open interfaces to 3rd party accounting systems
* Multi-currency pricing

Web booking interface
* Standard web booking interface
* Web Services module available for 3rd party web site developers

Point of Sale
* Support most type of current POS hardware
* Central reporting for all locations/terminals
* Barcode entry
* Credit card swipe
* Touchscreen support
* Tour, Retail and F&B sales
* Support for rolling stocktakes using online handheld devices

Hotel Property Management
* Accommodation Handling
* Any number of rooms
* Manage multiple buildings and/or wings
* Book multiple properties
* Integrated part of system - not an add on