The Alpha Accounting System
Automated Airline Interface
ALPHA interfaces to Amadeus, Apollo, SABRE, and WorldSpan using option 6 interface. All interface messages are stored, parsed and loaded into the ALPHA system. A separate file of all interface data is stored for archival and auditing purposes.
ALPHA's GDS interface automatically creates company account records, client mailing information for mailing lists, air, car, hotel and accounting records during the interface process.
Air, Hotel, Car, and Non-Air Sales Databases
ALPHA maintains over 600 data elements in its fully relational database. The air ticket database includes accounting information, client information, routing information including individual leg segment costs, and vendor selection, thus allowing non-ARC ticket inventory to be maintained, and reported on. Data that has been updated in IAR (refunds, exchanges, voids debit and credit memos) can automatically be transferred to ALPHA as part of the reconciliation process - the work does not need be duplicated. Hotel and car reservations are stored and reconciled during cash receipts for commission tracking. All types of non-air sales are stored including cruises, land packages and miscellaneous sales. Additional fields can be created by the user to capture any additional data from the remark fields in the GDS.
Indexes are maintained on-line to allow instant (under one second on most PC systems) access to a record. Indexed fields are typically name, company code, account number, date, ticket number, invoice number and vendor. Reporting can be based on any of the fields stored.
All records can be edited, subject only to user-defined security criteria. Accounting is maintained on-line for each record. ALPHA uses context sensitive help which can be customized by the user.
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