Booking, reservation & revenue 
management software

S3 Passenger is the latest and best available sales and distribution suite on the
market. Thousands out of the box features allow rail and bus users to benefit
from our proven technology, short time to market and powerful self-services.

Booking Flow Unique features
10.5 billion journey searches
85 ms response time
172.5 million passenger segments
89 Net promoter score

Unique Selling Points

  • Designed from scratch to meet the needs of bus and rail operators;
  • Innovation at its core, ongoing product enhancements to maintain leading global position;
  • New functionalities become available to all users every 3 months;
  • Agile and multi-disciplinary innovation teams;
  • Proven technology mitigates operator’s implementation and operational risks;
  • Cost efficient solution vs expensive bespoke software development by operator;
  • Easy to implement – cloud based suite;
  • Hands on user training supported with detailed functional and technical documentation;
  • Strong involvement of users in product roadmap and prioritisation;
  • Users will push industry standardisation & operator / mobility interoperability.

1 real time system 3 focus areas

  • Provide end-customer easy and efficient self-services to create and change bookings.

  • Offer operators a powerful, flexible and cutting edge technology platform to replace their outdated reservation systems and effectively battle for market share and customer preference.

  • Leverage operator’s user experience and industry input in ongoing S3P innovations, to remain the best in class product platform status with already more than thousands out of the box features.

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The S3P modules work closely together in the booking flow to guide a customer through the “orientation” phase to select a journey with available inventory and products, proceeding into the “booking” phase where the selection is converted to a reservation that can be completed, expanded (with ancillary products and passenger information) and finally paid and confirmed in a user friendly flow. A typical S3P based booking flow in which the modules orchestrate these activities looks like this:

Orientation phase

Booking phase

Retrieve travel options
Retrieve products
and prices
Store customer information (optional)
Fulfill purchased tickets
Retrieve availability
information
Create provisional booking + reserve seats
Register payment of
the booking
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Revenue Management

S3 RM is a software module within the S3 Passenger platform to maximize and control revenue from available market demand for rail of bus operations. In order to perform this task, S3 RM analyses historical demand and forecasts future demand for each departure, analyses the found price elasticity figures in transactional data in order to make the demand forecast price sensitive, and optimises the required booking limits based on the ongoing progress of a future departure in it’s sales cycle. With S3 RM, Revenue analysts are always fully in control by means of dashboards and real-time access to price and inventory settings.

Multi-channel distribution

  • The strength of S3P is represented by its core modules combined with sales and distribution API’s
  • All modules are managed through a single GUI back office environment (browser accessible), offering users an easy to use S3P platform.
  • Sales and distribution channel integration is facilitated with a standardised (and well-documented) set of API’s
  • Configurable prices, rules & conditions per distribution channel
  • Operators can create their own tailor-made (B2C) customer booking experience
  • S3P can be integrated with any client system based on web technology, mobile technology or other types of API driven (global) distribution channels such as ticket vending machines, station desk sales and B2B partner integrations.
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Latest updates
S3 Passenger is constantly evolving and improving, you can find out more about the major releases that Sqills releases every three months.
Jul 2020
S3 Passenger 2020.5
Update
Jun 2020
S3 Passenger 2020.4
Update
Apr 2020
S3 Passenger 2020.3
Update
Feb 2020
S3 Passenger 2020.2
Update
Jan 2020
S3 Passsenger 20.1
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Previous moduleS3 Communication

Module S3 Payment

S3 Payment is a component that acts between the S3 Passenger back office and the various S3 Passenger front-ends, in order to facilitate payments that deal with external payment service providers. Furthermore, S3 Payment prevents direct S3 Back office interaction with the outside world and therefore reduces security risks. S3 Payment simplifies the payment process and supports various processes such as: payment validation before final booking confirmation, store payment information in the booking dossier, after-sales / refund and shopping basket.

Features

  • Shopping basket
  • Simplicity in the payment representation
  • Payment initialisation
  • Synchronise payment status
  • Refunds
  • Security
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Previous moduleS3 CRM

Module S3 Communication

S3 Communication is the module that handles all outgoing communication from the S3 Passenger platform to customers, passengers and potentially other external users.

Template management for e-mails and SMS messages is part of this module, but also the configuration and scheduling of other related outgoing messages from the S3 system. S3 Communication is tightly integrated with S3 Ticket for the communication aspects of ticket fulfilment and delivery.

Next moduleS3 Payment

Features

  • Communication operations
  • Templates
  • FreeMarker template logic
  • Communication profiles and automated distribution
  • CMS features
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Previous moduleS3 Ticket

Module S3 CRM

S3 CRM is the customer profile management module of the platform. S3 CRM is an optional module in the S3P platform. Usually, pages such as “MyTransportCompany” within the booking engine web channel are operated with support of the S3 CRM functions to sign up for newsletters, manage profiles and show booking-related information.

Next moduleS3 Communication

Features

  • Customer profile creation
  • E-mail newsletter opt-in/opt-out logic
  • Customer attribute calculation such as Booking Value, Booking frequency, Average trip group size etc.
  • Customer data segmentation options
  • Export module for segmented data
  • Call centre Customer interactions registration
  • Customer self-service after-sales functions
  • After-sales operations for Agents
  • Loyalty program options
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Previous moduleS3 Inventory

Module S3 Ticket

S3 Ticket is the transactional heart of the system containing customer data, PNR’s and booking-related reference information. Includes the functionality of digital ticket fulfillment in PDF homeprint format with UIC 918.3 2D barcodes for Rail.

It also offers all the booking flow logic and after-sales conditional logic including allowing/refusing modifications such as rebooking, cancellation, modification, passenger name change and calculation of appropriate after-sales fees. Provisional booking logic for customers is included, which means that booking requests include “expiry time” limits to secure seat availability during the booking confirmation. An automatic cancellation and clean-up process applies for unconfirmed bookings.

Next moduleS3 CRM

Features

  • Provisional booking logic
  • PNR booking data storage
  • Booking search and filter options
  • Customer / Passenger booking separation
  • Optional linking to S3 CRM
  • Automated Payment value vs. Ticket value check
  • Booking modification audit trail logging
  • Ticket fulfilment and validation history logging
  • Transactions log
  • Advanced refunding logic
  • Various After-sales booking modification options supported
  • Operational Booking conflict management
  • Bulk ticket printing functionality
  • S3 Ticket Dashboard overview
  • Affiliate / sales channel tagging in each PNR
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Previous moduleS3 Fare

Module S3 Inventory

S3 Inventory is the module to define the inventory material that delivers the service. Automated calculation of capacity based on the configured scheduled material is available to support inventory updates after material changes. Carriage types and definition of physical seat properties are configurable within the inventory as is the control over the automated seat allocation logic for (group) bookings. Ability to block e.g. single carriages and seats in case of operational exceptions and automatically mark (existing) bookings as conflicted so that the outcomes of the blockade can be easily identified and quickly resolved.

Inventory control on physical and logical levels per origin / destination pair in order to support fast orientation on remaining capacity and support revenue management “booking limit” controls. Finally, the business logic around seat allocations for incoming booking requests is covered by an advanced seating algorithm.

Next moduleS3 Ticket

Features

  • Rolling stock definition module
  • Unallocated inventory management
  • Automatic capacity calculation
  • Supports changes in the used rolling stock along the route
  • Supports scheduling based on alternating (year on year) week patterns
  • Physical and Logical availability modelling
  • Easy Drag and Drop configuration
  • Rolling stock modelling using Carriage Type and Seat configuration
  • Advanced Seat allocation algorithm control
  • Consistent availability tracking and control
  • Carriage and Seat blockades in case of temporary unavailability
  • Availability dashboard
  • Configurable Static Business Rules
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Previous moduleS3 Navigator

Module S3 Fare

S3 Fare is the module used to define commercial market propositions including products, tariffs, discounts and various prices, for scheduled services.

A wide range of product types are supported, including “main” products (ticket with seat reservation, ticket without seat reservation, separate seat reservation) and “add-on” products (fees, insurances, food & beverages, pets, bicycles, prams, etc.). A detailed set of rules and conditions is available to create differentiated sets off Tariffs and Products per sales channel and portals.

Next moduleS3 Inventory

Features

  • Module is suited for both reserved and open tickets offers
  • Classification and distinction of products
  • Various pricing mechanisms (Market, Zone, Distance, Fixed and Percentage prices)
  • Refined Tariff Rules and Conditions
  • Multi-currency offers
  • Sales channel specific differentiation of Price and Product offering
  • Flexible Price period management
  • Extensive discount logic
  • Flexible ticket validity rules
  • Bucket and Bundle logic
  • Powerful fee structure
  • After-sales condition management
  • Various VAT models including cross-border VAT calculations
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Module S3 Navigator

S3 Navigator is the service scheduling module of the S3P platform which handles everything related to the configuration of timetables and of the geographical network including routes, stops and connections.

Once a network is defined, each service type and all timetables of scheduled services can be managed. In addition, creation of exceptions on stop or service level can temporarily overrule the scheduled planning; a powerful function to manage operational incidents.

Next moduleS3 Fare

Features

  • Flexible route configuration, multi-segment, multi-carrier and multi-modality journeys (compatible with UIC standards)
  • Exception logic for temporary network or timetable changes
  • Easy timetable planning
  • Multilingual travel information
  • Multi-carrier, multi-modality
  • Multi-time zones scheduling
  • Powerful end-customer search features for travel options
  • Saleschannel authorization management
  • Connection to external network optimisation solutions and other sources
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S3 Passenger 2020.5

COVID-19 continues to dominate the headlines. With the ongoing impact of Covid-19 in the travel industry Sqills had to act: S3 Passenger now offers built-in features to apply social distancing during seat allocation. This is achieved by avoiding proximity between people who do not share a household, on schedule level. When enabled, the seating algorithm will automatically apply logic to ensure that seats directly opposite or directly next to an allocated seat are never occupied by a person originating from another booking.
  • Increased work in the payment features of S3 Passenger
  • The voucher logic is improved
  • The re-accommodation functionality has been improved
  •  S3 Passenger introduces a new screen called the Schedule gaps screen
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S3 Passenger 2020.4

While most people were enjoying their summer holidays S3 Passenger kept on changing and improving. Many of the notable improvements came in terms of seat selection functionality and S3 Inventory.
  • S3P introduces a new product type code “Seat Selection” that can be used in the context of seat selection logic at a specific price point
  • The option to offer bundles to passenger groups that actually mix different main products in one offer
  • More flexibility in the management of rules around which passenger fields are mandatory on a booking
  • More tariff features on S3 Inventory
  • A wide range of smaller changes and improvements
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S3 Passenger 2020.3

The third update of the year for S3 Passenger. Much of the focus for the third update of the year went to S3 Inventory and improving API calls while also adding a few new API calls. A RM system to create the logical availability data is no longer necessary, this can be done as part of the bucket update procedure.
  • Product seat preferences can be considered when allocating a seat
  • Warnings are returned when seat property preferences have not been met during allocation
  • Tariffs can now be bound to more than one discount card
  • Functionality is now available to manage the relationship between tariffs explicitly
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S3 Passenger 2020.2

The second of eight releases this year, this one with a variety of new features and more data to be rendered via new API calls. Other improvements are the expansion of sales channels settings, a whole new set of API calls is available to manage organizations in S3P, and new after-sales features.
  • Implementation of new after-sales features
  • Functionality to create or change a booking segment is extended
  • S3 Echo now supports a new event called Booking confirmation
  • GTFS export logic is extended
  • It is now possible to use multiple S3 Passenger instances
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S3 Passsenger 20.1

The first release of this year is a fact, a release with already many new features. This also marks the first time that S3 Passenger will release an update eight times per year. One of the largest and most noticeable changes is the new look and feel of the S3 Passenger backoffice. However, there are several other improvements in the first update of the year.
  • When voiding tickets, a reason code can be given to explain why voiding has been applied
  • S3 Echo has been extended with a lot of new events
  • Carriage restriction rules logic describes how carriage restriction rules can be managed on equipment template level
  • Repricing of ticket items in case of through fare offers is now possible
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