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Understanding the Bookings Tab

The Bookings tab mirrors your proposal item by item, adding cost, supplier, confirmation number, payment status, and commission status.

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Written by Shane

The Bookings tab is the operational side of a proposal. Every item you added on the canvas appears here as a row, with the commercial detail attached: what it costs, who you're booking it through, whether it's been paid, and where the commission stands.

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Everything in this table comes from each item's Pricing & Booking tab, inside the item's edit drawer. Set those up first: set the pricing, add the payment schedule, and make the item ready for authorization. See Configure Pricing for Proposal Components and Payment Schedule & Authorization Requests.


Open the Bookings tab

Open the trip and click Bookings under the Finances group in the left navigation. Because a trip can hold more than one proposal, a row of proposal tabs runs across the top, each showing the proposal's name and its current state. Click a proposal to see its bookings.

Bookings tab with the Finances nav group and the proposal selector tabs across the top

Read the Overview summary

At the top, an Overview band rolls up the selected proposal's finances:

  • Total cost: the proposal's total price across all items

  • Paid: how much has been logged as paid

  • Authorized: how much the client has authorized

  • Unpaid: what's still outstanding

  • Exp. commission after split: your expected commission once any split is applied

Overview band showing Total cost, Paid, Authorized, Unpaid, and Exp. commission after split

The bookings table

Below the summary, the table lists one row per item, each with its component-type icon. The columns are:

  • Item: the component title and icon

  • Cost: the item's price (a dash if it isn't priced)

  • Supplier: the booking supplier you selected (a dash if none yet)

  • Confirmation #: the booking confirmation number (a dash until you add one)

  • Payment: the item's payment status

  • Commission: the item's booking and commission status

Click + New Item to add a component to the proposal without leaving the tab.

Bookings table with column headers and a few item rows

Open an item from the table

Click any row to open that item's edit drawer, the same drawer you use on the proposal canvas, opened to its Pricing & Booking tab. From there you select the supplier, add a confirmation number, mark the item as booked, record payments, and set commission. Your changes flow straight back to the table.

Clicking a booking row opening the item's edit drawer on the Pricing & Booking tab

Payment status

The Payment column shows where the item stands on payment:

  • Unpaid: no payment recorded

  • Partial: some, but not all, of the amount recorded

  • Paid: fully recorded

Payment status is driven by the item's expected payments and any payments you log on it (see Payment Schedule & Authorization Requests).


Commission status

The Commission column tracks where the booking sits for commission:

  • Not Booked: the item hasn't been marked as booked yet

  • Upcoming: the item is booked and an expected commission has been recorded, so a commission is anticipated but not yet received

  • Received: the commission has been received by the parent agency from the supplier.

An item moves off Not Booked when you open it and click Mark as Booked on its Pricing & Booking tab. Once booked, TripLoft records it as "Booked on [date]" and notes that the booking is shared with the agency for reporting and commission reconciliation. You set the expected commission amount and split in the Commission section of the same tab.


Packages

Items invoiced as Part of Trip Package are grouped under a package row, marked with a folder icon. Expand it with the chevron to see the components inside.

The Cost column reads differently at each level:

  • The package row shows the total: the package base price plus any itemized components.

  • A nested component shows Included when its cost is covered by the base price, or its own price when it's been itemized.


Options shown as a range

When an item has options for the client to choose from (for example, two alternative ways to travel between cities), it appears as an option row with the choices nested beneath it. Because the choice isn't made yet, the option row's Cost shows as a range, from the lowest to the highest option, and each choice below shows its own cost. Once a selection is made, the range resolves to the single chosen cost.

Good to know: Package rows and option rows both expand and collapse when you click their icon. Two things tell them apart. A package uses a folder icon and shows one total in the Cost column. An option group uses a document icon with a plus sign and shows a range prefixed with "Starting from." Option rows also leave Payment and Commission blank, since nothing is booked until the client chooses.


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