Importance and Use of Online Bus Booking System

Journey by bus was not preferred earlier due to lack of luxurious buses, poor road infrastructure and inefficient system of booking tickets. We had to stand in long queue to purchase tickets that was tiring and time consuming. Ticket booking on telephone was also difficult because it remained busy or out of service most of the time. Now plenty of luxurious buses are providing services to the travelers thanks to wide network of road infrastructure and an online ticketing system.

Online ticketing system, better to call Bus Reservation System is automated system to purchase online bus tickets. It keeps the record of the each passenger including details of schedule of each bus. With this system you can also schedule routes, set seat availability and upload an interactive seat map that help customers to select their seats. By using this software we can reserve tickets sitting anywhere via internet or through telephone.  You can check the availability of bus suitable for you and further book the seat of their choice.

Axis Softech provides Bus booking portal development service to travel agents and agencies who want to start their own travel portal. Our Bus booking portal has functions like creation of route, allocation of routes to different vendors and different buses, seat selection, booking, etc.  Vendor Management System is one of the largest modules here, using it the admin can create one and more vendors who can create, add, update and delete the buses on different available routes they like. Both Admin as well as vendor could prepare the routes but it is solely depend upon the choice of owner of the portal.

Axis Softech also provides you Bus reservation System integration on your portal which will be powered by any API provider. The Bus Booking engine is also integrated with payment gateway and reporting system. The reporting system will enable to view the reports like bus availability, booking status of each bus, total booked seats date wise, total seats booked route wise, transaction mode, etc.

Apart from providing booking facility to the tourists, our online bus ticket booking software has some other features which make the whole configuration of solution elegant and attractive. The solution is customized as per the required of the users.

Some important features of Bus Reservation System are:

·         Booking notification through email or SMS

·         Convey users about the cancellation of the journey or promotions and all

·         Manages all the daily service accounts

·         Alerts to passengers for blocked and unblocked seats

·         Dynamic ticket pricing system that provides increase or decrease of the ticket pricing for any day

·         Discounts can be provided to direct customers

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