How to Sell Tickets by using Bus Ticketing Software Counter Panel
Nowadays all businesses make digitalize according to the update of internet. Since we have become habituated to buying and selling products online, these days’ entrepreneurs see this as a great opportunity to expand their businesses. These days, most businesses have their own website and mobile app that they use to grow and popularize their services.
The bus companies are not far behind, they are playing a huge role in the online business. So, if you have a bus business to grow then you to build an effective bus ticketing software to reach your audience easily.
How does a Bus Ticketing Software Help?
Bus Ticket Booking Software is an automated system for purchasing online bus tickets. Grab your own branded website, mobile apps (Android & iOS) and allow your passengers to book bus tickets for different routes & destinations. This ticket booking system keeps the record of passengers’ details as per each bus schedule. You can also set seat availability, schedule routes, and upload interactive seat maps to assist customers to pick out their preferred seats. With the help of the Bus Ticketing Software, you can reserve tickets each time anywhere with the help of the Internet.
In this blog I will share you how a bus ticket booking software counter user sell/book/cancel bus tickets
How to Sell Tickets Using Bus Ticketing Software Counter Panel?
If anyone wants to sell ticket by using counter panel, then needs to follow some procedures. This system has a backend panel, when the counter agent sell/ book/cancel tickets in the real time the information of the customer save in the backend panel this is called trip generate. These backend information showed by the admin panel and counter agents.
The counter agents sell tickets in 4 steps
1. Tickets are sold with the passenger’s contact information. (Group Ticket)
2. Sells tickets to passengers with the information of the seat.
3. The seat is booked with passenger information and contact information.
4. The last one is without any information selling the ticket.
Now we are booking the tickets follow (step no 2) sell tickets Sells tickets to passengers with the information of the seat.
To sell a ticket, counter agents have to follow these steps:
1. Go to the Counter Panel.
2. Select Boarding location, Destination, and trip date, then click “Search”.
A list of coaches will appear from where you can see the details of the coaches such as departure time, AC/Non-AC type, available seat numbers, seat fare, departure sheet, info, and view seat.
3. From the “View Seat” option you will be able to see all the available seat details.
4. To sell a ticket, select a seat from the available seat options. After that, provide the passenger’s info including Mobile, Name, Gender, and Age Type.
5. After providing the required information, click “Confirm Selling”. A message will appear, click “yes” to confirm.
6. A new tab will appear from where you can print out the ticket by clicking “Print”. Before you click “Print”, make sure that your printer is connected with your computer.
Note: The color of the seats will change according to the seat status once they are sold.
What facility can offered to passengers by counter agents for using this system?
1. Seat information
2. Manage female seats and male seats separately so that the customer has comfort in long way travel.
We also provide seat categories for thinking of passengers’ comfort.
· Child
· Adult
· Senior
This is very important to a long way journey passengers that are Boarding point & Dropping point.
Boarding point: The boarding point is the point where the customer gets on the bus.
Dropping point: The dropping point is the point where the customer gets off the bus.
Discount (Per seat): You can provides discount in percentage (%) or flat amount, Then you can select the discount checkbox.
When all booking processes are completed then click the confirm button to sell the ticket.
Book a Tickets Using Counter
Ticket booking refers to holding tickets for a certain time. Within this period, the booked tickets will not be available for sale until the booking time ends.
A counter agent should follow these steps below to book a ticket for a certain time –
1. Select Boarding location, Destination, and trip date, then hit “Search”.
2. Select a coach and click on its “view seat” option.
3. Hit the “Book” option to book tickets.
4. Select the seat you want to book. You can also choose multiple seats.
5. Provide contact info, name, boarding point, dropping point, and other info.
6. Enter the date and time for how long you need to book the ticket. Agents can change the booking period if necessary.
7. And submit by clicking “Confirm Booking”.
Note 1: The color of the booked tickets should change based on their status.
Note 2: As long as a ticket is “booked”, it will remain unavailable for the public unless the ticket gets canceled.
Note 3: The ticket will get canceled automatically if it isn’t issued within the “booked” time.
Counter Agents can cancel both sold and booked tickets.
To cancel a ticket –
1. Search the ticket with the PNR number or from the seat details.
2. Click on the specific ticket. From the new tab click on the “Cancel Ticket” option.
3. A new tab will appear from where you have to select the seat and enter a remark (optional).
4. Click on the “Submit” button to confirm cancelation.
Note 1: To cancel a “Sold” ticket, the agent has to provide a return amount per seat and select a counter name from the “Cancel Ticket” tab.
Bus Ticket Booking Software plays a major role for the bus companies to build a successful brand bringing customers and companies closer. There are more benefits of a bus ticketing system that make them desirable for every business. So, if you are thinking about taking your business to the next level, contact a good ticket booking system development company that will help you create the best website including mobile app (Android + iOS) for your business.
