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OnLine Systems has more new interfaces that really delight! Outdo your competitors with the latest strategic firecracker from ChartsCharts Competitor Interface! And, using the new Charts SMS messaging module, make better guest connections! Read on for details of these and other Charts offerings.

Products and features

Charts Competitor interface – outpace your competitors

Do you know, this minute, how much your competitors are charging for a room type equivalent with yours? Wouldn't you like to have a watchdog constantly observing their rates, and alerting you when they move so many percentage points from yours? James Brown, Manager of Atlantic Tower Motor Inn, tells how Charts Competitor Interface has saved his staff an hour each day. Why? Because they've stopped trawling travel websites to see what those pesky competitors are charging!

Read on to learn more.

Charts SMS – an easy way to connect with guests

Charts can send SMS messages to your guest's mobile phone – booking confirmations, welcomes, thank-yous .. It's another way of providing guest reassurance, and makes quick responses to your email address (like cancellations) more likely.

Read on to learn more.

Targeted, personalised form letters/emails from Charts

The time is ripe for revving up your marketing efforts! These bear most fruit when well targeted, and personalised! For example, information in the Charts guest record can allow you to target your letters or emails to clients in a chosen market segment. Chris Fairbairn from Pacific Rim Hotels tells how they've used this facility.

Read on to learn more.

Support issues

Charts Portal – avoid hiccups when changing room names

If you change the name of a room in any third party website which is controlled by the Charts Portal interface, then please advise the OnLine Systems support team, who will remap your room type configuration.

If this remapping isn't done, then the changed room type will not be updated and you will have many errors such as: bookings not coming through to Charts, allotments not updating properly, and bookings going into the waitlist.

Make sure you do backups

Data backups are a vital business protection procedure. Make sure yours is being done! Always do the backup before doing the night audit, using the Charts internal backup facility. If you need assistance with this, please let our tech support staff know.

Thanks for spreading the word!

A big thanks to all those Charts clients who are proactively spreading the word about the efficacy of Charts and its two-way, automatic update portal interfaces. Happy customers are our best advertising, and we've loved receiving the enquiries that have resulted! If you want to discuss our offerings further, please phone us on +612 9906 3900 or email info@online-int.com.au.