Great choice by selecting Kymark Bookings as your companies booking, dispatch, and company management software. We strive to create the tools necessary for your business to become more efficient, professional, and secure.
We've created this brief tutorial to allow walk you through your initial system setup. As an alternative, you can always call us at 1-888-501-5611 to setup a completely free setup/tutorial.
Login In:
- Navigate to software.limo
- Enter username
- Enter pasword
- Click "Sign In"
Edit Company Details:
- Hover over your name in the top right corner of the screen, then click "My Company"
- Edit your company profile, and select your system preferences.
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
Edit Account Details:
- Hover over your name in the top right corner of the screen, then click "My Account"
- Edit your personal profile.
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
Add Vehicle(s):
- Click "My Tools" then "Vehicles" on the left navigation menu.
- Click "Create New Vehicle"
- Enter vehicle name (ex: Audi Luxury Sedan)
- Enter Unit # (ex: S01) 2-6 characters would be best. Some suggestions would be S followed by 1-2 characters for sedans (ex: S01, or S1), L followed by 1-2 characters for traditional limos (ex: L01, or L1), LB followed by 1-2 characters for limo buses (ex: LB01, LB1)
- Select Unit # color. This will help you quickly identify each vehicle on the dashboard, schedule, archives, customer history, and several other pages that make reference to the unit number.
- Complete the rest of the straight forward fields
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
Add Fee & Discounts:
- Click "My Tools" then "Fees & Discounts" on the left navigation menu.
- Click "Create New Fee or Discount"
- Select if it's a fee or discount you're looking to add.
- Add a name for the fee, or discount. Clear, short names work best.
- Select if its a percentage, or fixed amount.
- Type the amount of the percentage, or fixed amount. You do not need to a percentage, or currency sign.
- Select if this fee or discount will automatically apply to all reservations by default. Keep in mind that selection "Yes" to automatically adding the fee or discount to all bookings will still allow you to remove it as a fee or discount when you're taking a booking.
- Select the formula to calculate this fee or discount (ex: is this fee or discount add to just the base rate, or is it added after the base rate, and other fees are added in. The formulas are truly endless, and it's completely up to you how you'd like it to be calculated).
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
Select Occasions:
- Click "My Tools" then "Occasions" on the left navigation menu.
- Toggle select which occasions you'd like to be listed as options for you to select when create a reservation. We've added a whole bunch of options to choose from. You more than likely won't want to list all of them though.
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
Create Users:
- Click "My Tools" then "Users" on the left navigation menu.
- Click "Create New User"
- Add in as much detail as you can for the users profile. Users are your drivers, dispatchers, admins, affiliates etc. You have the ability to edit user permissions, create new unique user profiles, or edit existing user profiles.
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen to complete the setup, and have that welcome email sent to the user, which will allow them to setup their own secure password.
GREAT! You've successfully completed the initial setup of your account. Follow the steps below to setup your first booking. After that, we suggest poking around the system to completely familiarize yourself with everything we currently have to offer. Keep in mind that we doing major system updates each and every week. Features will automatically apply to your account, without interruption.
- Click "Create New Booking" in the top left corner of the screen.
- Select if this is for a New Customer or Returning Customer. Returning Customer as a selection will allow you to do a quick search to locate a customer profile. Nothing will be listed here if you don't currently have nothing in the customer records section. Customer records can manually be created on the customer records page, which is located on the left navigation menu, but will automatically be created whenever you create a booking.
- Enter passenger information
- Enter Trip Itinerary. We suggest playing around with the various different buttons in the trip itinerary to see how they function. Autocomplete map data will be on by default. Map data is pulled direction from Google Maps. Feel free to turn off autocomplete next to each address, if you feel Google Maps isn't providing you with the correct data, or if the address isn't found in their system. Note that segment duration location next to the time/date is rather important. Filling in this information will help the system calculate the total hours that need billing, if you select to bill the customer hourly. It'll also act as a way to book off the time for that specific vehicle.
- Section 4 "Vehicle & Driver" will allow you select a billed vehicle, and a scheduled vehicle. Selecting a billed vehicle, will by default make the scheduled vehicle the same. You can then select a driver to assign now, or this can be done at a later date from several different pages (schedule, booking summary, edit booking page. You will be given the option to select a different vehicle/driver for each segment of the trip, if your booking as multiple segments, and you select that the vehicle and driver are not the same for all segments.
- Enter any internal, driver, or customers notes.
- Select Billing type (hourly, flat, package, or distance).
- Confirm that all fees or discounts have successfully been applied. Click "Add Item" to add any fees or discounts that haven't yet been applied. You can always enter one off fees or discounts by clicking the "Add Item" button within the billing totals.
- Check for any conflicts in section 7. Conflict checking is checked against drivers or vehicles that aren't available.
- Click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
- ***IMPORTANT*** By default all bookings are put into an unconfirmed status when you click save. You MUST change the status to confirmed at the top of the booking summary page to have them display on the dashboard, schedule, or any other pages related to bookings.