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Yacht Brokers/Dealers

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Yacht Brokers/Dealers

This solution allows a yacht broker/dealer company to manage and promote online an inventory of new and used boats. The solution includes already custom templates for motor yachts, sailboats and equipment. It allows to present professionally the inventory while giving a very quick ad easy management interface to the brokers and dealers. A lead management area gives the opportunity to brokers to manage quickly the requests while keeping an history.

Yacht Charter Reservation Features

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I. Yacht Charter Reservation Solution :: Main Features This solution allows a yacht charter company to manage and promote online a fleet of yachts for charter. The solution includes already custom templates for motor yachts, sailboats. It allows to present professionally the fleet while giving a very quick ad easy management interface to the reservation agents. A quotation system gives the opportunity to reservation agents to create quotes with options and manage the requests for availability.
Standard Features common to all versions
Administration Front-End and Back end administration. Allows multiple reservation agents to manage the fleet, requests for availability, prepare quotes in the front end.
Listing Management Pre-loaded templates for Sailboats, Power Yachts. Fields and tabs can be published or unpublished from the backend. Flexible layout.
Validation tables Over 110 validations pre-loaded: yacht make , engine make, electronic, electrical.... offering a turnkey solution.
Yacht library Allows to create once the profile for a yacht/make/model/year. then this profile can be cloned/copied if several boats of the same profiles are in the fleet.
Reservation Cycle Built-in Reservation cycle allowing to categorize the reservation. It gives uniform easy steps to follow to all reservation agents.
Reservation Agents Contacts The Charter company and reservation agents have an extended set of fields in order to enter all their contact information. Offices location and contacts management is included for charter companies with several locations.
Requests for availabilities Management Online forms allow site visitors to request more information, or availabilities about a specific yacht... All the requests are saved in tables. email notifications are sent to reservation agents. They can process the request directly in the system. They answer through a quotation module which gives them the opportunity to price additional options requested by the client
Forms Builder All Online forms are linked to a data dictionary allowing to add or change fields for a specific forms.
Bulk Images Upload Images are uploaded through a flash utility allowing for the bulk upload and resizing of the listing images without timeout.
Mini Site Provides a short url to have direct access to the reservation agents fleet and presentation. (scheduled release may 2009). The presentation module allows to present the charter company and reservation agent contact details as well at the accreditations.

II. Features Comparison between VersionsThe Yacht Charter Reservation solution is now available in 3 versions. The Lite version is the perfect entry level solution for charter companies with a small fleet. It can be used as well by a single luxury yacht to manage online the reservations. They will have a turnkey solution with a set of features found only in custom solutions.
Features Standard Version Corporate Version
PDF Generation Flyer 2 Pages & Booklet 10 pages. Flyer 2 Pages & Booklet 10 pages. Custom front and backpage with company logo
Feed Generation Site/Charter Company/Reservation Agents. Build custom feed feature Site/Charter Company/Reservation Agents. Build custom feed feature
Flyer Generation Custom template with logo. Posted to 25 sites automatically + Craigslist manually. (number of sites will increase over time to provide maximum exposure) Custom template with logo. Flash Widget Posted to 25 sites automatically + Craigslist manually. (number of sites will increase over time to provide maximum exposure)
SMS Integration SMS platform integration allows to send sms messages to brokers or registered users. (* You need to have a subscription with the SMS platform provider. subscription price is separate from our application price). SMS platform integration allows to send sms messages to brokers or registered users. (* You need to have a subscription with the SMS platform provider. subscription price is separate from our application price).
SurgarCrm Integration N/A SurgarCrm Integration: allows to send all lead, requests to the SugarCrm application through a web service.

III. Powerful & Integrated Syndication ServicesOur Solution offers a very powerful synchronization tool in order to increase instantly the visibility of the listings in the Longitude 64 Yachting Network composed of over 40 web sites (and growing) targeting the yachting and luxury markets.
The Longitude 64 Yachting Network Syndication
Features The Longitude 64 Yachting Network is a syndication of web sites targeting specific users in the yachting market: sailboats, power boats, geographic locations, specific brands... At present over 40 sites are part of this network. All our customers using our applications have the possibility to subscribe to the automatic syndication service in order to increase the exposure of their listings.
Automatic Synchronization The synchronization is automatic between our client site and the Longitude 64 Yachting Network when the subscription starts. Every 24 hours, New listings and updates will be synchronized with the Yachting Network automatically.

IV. License Our solutions are sold under a commercial license. The purchase of a license allows you to use one application on one domain domain only. We control the proper use of the license by encoding the components and modules with ioncube. However, we leave open the tmpl files to allow designers to change the layout.
We have a discount table for web companies who would purchase several licenses in a calendar year.

V. Technical RequirementsOur solution aims to provide a flexible path for future upgrades and new features. Thus, we recommend to have current versions of OS and compiled extensions. The recommended configuration however has nothing uncommon and is found in standard with reliable hosting companies.
Recommended Configuration
Apache 2.2.x or above Adds security and features used in current and future versions.
PHP 5.2.5 or above Previous versions of PHP 5 had problems with xml and SOAP used in the web services.
Image Magick most server configuration used image magick in standard. application will run with the GD2 image library. however quality in some cases may not be as good and memory issues could arise for large images with GD2.
Suexec or Suphp avoids permission issues with joomla.
Ioncube loaders server must support ioncube loaders. either loading dynamically or set in php.ini

VI.ActionsUse the links below to view more about the solution.
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All our solutions adopt the same core architecture allowing for code stability. Separate modules allow to manage the leads, communication with clients and presentation of featured listings on the site.

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Syndication

Our applications syndicate the listings through an XML web service and distribute the feed to The Yachting Network master database automatically at regular intervals.
A web service API allows to post listings automatically...

PDF Generation

Our solutions generate automatically PDF flyers and brochures. visitors can download them directly from the site. Or you can email them to anyone doing a request. ...

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