Route price buckets


Price Buckets and Fare Rules

Operators looking to adjust their prices for schedules over a specific date range with different capacities can take advantage of the Betterez Price Buckets feature. This will enable you to price your seats based on capacity buckets for normal and promotional loading.

In this example, we are going to apply a special price for the first passenger and a different price for every passenger after.

To begin, navigate to Administration -> Sales Inventory -> Routes and select the route in which you wish to adjust the price.

Sales Inventory

Scroll down the selected Route and go to the drop down menu for Price Buckets and select the + button.

Price bucket section 1

In the following dialog. box fill out the first capacity range of your first bucket.

Once your capacity buckets are loaded you can now set rules to treat them the way you want.

Price bucket section 2

The next step is to scroll down to Fare Rules and click +.

Fare rules 1

To complete this in the following dialog. box fill out:

  • the name of the new rule.
  • the date range in which this rule will apply.
  • the schedules in which this rule will impact.
  • the discount (percentage or absolute) for this bucket. In this case we will enter a -10% discount to reflect this promotion.

Fare rules 2

Example: If a transport vehicle has a capacity of five seats and the fare bucket is set to discount the fee of the first 10% then the discount will not apply since 10% of five equals less than one person; if the fare bucket is set to discount the fee of the first 20% then the discount will apply since 20% of five equals one person. Finally, if the fare bucket is set to discount the fee of the first 20% but the booking if for two people then the discount is waived because it only applies to the total headcount of the transaction.

Now when the first six riders finds this trip they will receive a 10% discount compared to the following passenger who will pay the full rate. The normal price is $25 and the first 6 rider's will receive a price of $22.50.

First six riders:

PriceBuckets2

Each subsequent rider:

PriceBuckets3

The ability to configure price buckets will ONLY be visible if a route is associated to only ONE PRODUCT.