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Introduction
Car Travel Settings present one of the most vital parts of any website configuration that uses car service on the Thomalex system.
This part of the corporation's travel group settings consists primarily of the options for car travel specifications such as availability date ranges, car classes and types, allowed cabin classes, as well as the options to enter your negotiated fare codes among other settings.
Configuring car travel settings in a way that is in alignment with your company's car travel rules is out of the most significance before starting to create car rentals.
Car Travel Settings
To access Car Travel Settings use the following path:
Corporate site → Edit Travel Group → Car Travel Settings on the left side
Image No.1 Car Travel Settings Location
Important note - Before applying any changes or deleting any data within Car Travel Settings make sure that you click on "Save" for each newly added infomation in order to verify that the system will safely store all the changes and that no data gets lost.
In the following lines, you will find references for all available settings within this part of the travel group options for all corporations:
| Setting Name | Description |
| Show availability starting from | Allows you to specify the starting date of flight availability. |
| Show availability up to | Specify the number of days up to which the availability will be presented. |
| Display Advanced Car Search Features | If enabled it will open 6 new options to be specified: Default Car Vendor - Allows you to specify the default car vendor for a car search. Default Car Type - Specify the default car type. Default Car Category - Enter the default car category Default Air Conditioning - Specify whether car results will have to come with air conditioning or not. Default Transmission Preference - Specify if the car results will be the manual or automatic transmission. |
| Allowed Car Classes | Specify which car classes will be allowed to be booked. Set to "All" by default. |
| Allowed Car Categories | Enter which car categories will be allowed to be booked. Set to "All" by default. |
| Allow Multiple Car Segments | Allows you to book multiple car results in one booking. |
| Enable Geolocational Search | If enabled, the search engine will use longitude and latitude to provide autosuggestions based on City or Landmark names entered in the "Pick-up location" field on the booking tool. Activating geolocational search will provide you with more autosuggestions besides the regular airport and city upon entering pickup locations. Additionally, it allows you to specify the diameter of the radius that will be taken into account upon doing the search. The radius that can be specified ranges from "5" to "99" KM or Miles. |
| Display Policy | Select from three possible options to display flight results according to established Car Travel Policies. The available options are: Display all options - Will display all flight results regardless of being in or out of policy. Display only in policy - Will display only flight results that are "In policy". Display out of policy only if in policy is not available - Will display flight results that are out of policy since no "In policy" flight results are able to be provided. |
| Travel Approval | Allows you to select between three possible rules for car travel approval requirements that will be applied to all members of the travel group. Three possible options are: Never needs Approval - No approval will be required for completing car reservations. Always needs Approval - Creates an imperative that all flight reservations will require approval. Approval is only needed when booking is out of policy - Sets a rule that the approval is required only for the flight results that are "Out of policy'. |
| Travel Notifications | Specify whether car travel notifications such as booking confirmations or cancelations will be sent to passengers. There's an option to toggle between "Always needs Notifications" and "Never needs Notifications". |
| Sort Car Results By | Allows you to specify the three levels of flight result sorting. By default, only the first level will be set with the rule "Price (Cheapest First)" |
| Search Result Custom Page | Provides you with the ability to enter the custom message that will be presented upon receiving car search results. An example of a custom search result car message:  Image No.2 Custom Search Result Message Example |
| Shopping Cart Custom Message | Specify the custom message that will be present above the added car search result in the shopping cart. An example of a custom message in the shopping cart:  Image No.3 Example of Custom Shopping Cart Message |
| Corporate IDs and Rate Codes to Search Providers | Part of Car Travel Settings where negotiated codes are entered and their rate labels specified. A universal indicator for a special rate code being applied to the search result is a star icon (⭐). Each Travel Group can have up to eight negotiated fare codes. An example of negotiated codes and rate labels in the search results:  Image No.4 Example of Car Codes and Car Labels being applied to search result |
| Billing Numbers and Supplemental Information Providers | Allows you to further enter billing numbers and supplemental information per Car providers to be used along with the text labels. Supplemental Information is a free text where you can add any additional information important to a specific vendor. It can be the same or different. |