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Reservation software for the ferry industry
We at Hogia Ferry Systems have been supplying our standard reservation system BOOKIT to the Canadian ferry industry for 20 years now. The first company to join our BOOKIT Community in Canada was Bay Ferries and Northumberland Ferries in 2004. After that more have followed and today, we are proud to say that we work with the following ferry companies:
Apart from working with Canadian customers we have also actively supported CFA for many years.
Would BOOKIT be a good fit for your operations?
BOOKIT is a reservation system focused on ferry travel and freight. It handles the complete booking process from the capture of passenger, vehicle and freight details to follow-up activities such as invoicing and reporting. The system is suitable for many different kinds of ferry operations, thanks to its flexible route, capacity, price and yield management functionality. It is also possible to sell closely related products through BOOKIT, such as onboard services, accommodation and connecting travel tickets.
Today BOOKIT is being used by ferry operators on all continents of the world (apart from Antarctica) and our customers’ operations are ranging from hi-speed passenger only services to RoRo only services. And all is done within the same standard system. The vast majority of our customers are RoPax operators with a mix of passengers, vehicles and freight.
The BOOKIT product portfolio is extensive, it has to be as we support so many different types of operations. But as BOOKIT is very scalable, it will always feel like it’s tailored for your operations.
API - Application Programming Interface
There is one area of BOOKIT and our standard product that we are particularly proud of and that is our API. In todays’ world we believe our aim should be to be experts at what we do – developing a reservation system – and leave CRM systems, finance systems, web development, BI tools, hardware supply etc. to the experts in those fields. Our standard BOOKIT API allows our customers to integrate to those 3rd party systems.
By developing BOOKIT to be a world class system, and by make all the functionality accessible via APIs, it allows you the operators to choose best of practice for all of your additional software hardware and needs.
Today our API is used for a number of different things; web booking sites, self-service ticketing kiosks, handheld check-in applications to name just a few.
Reporting
Data is knowledge and the reservation system holds vital information that you as a ferry operator need to get your hands on in order to analyze, report and forecast. BOOKIT holds a set of standard reports; different types of manifests, finance reports etc. These are static reports that hold current up to date information that is crucial for your daily operations.
For ad-hoc reports or more in-depth analysis reports we offer the standard Reporting views. With these Reporting views we give you the tool to create your own custom reports and with real time data. The reporting views can be used as is or you can choose to use a Business Intelligence tool, for instance Microsoft Power BI.
Who we are
We are Hogia Ferry Systems from Vasa, Finland, and we are part of the Swedish software company the Hogia group. We have been developing and implementing our standard reservation system BOOKIT since the mid-80s.
We take great pride in what we do and make sure that our relationship with our customers is more than a customer/supplier relationship - we are long-term partners. Our customers and partners, together with us, form the BOOKIT Community, a community where all members can freely discuss and share ideas. We are scattered all over the world, but we are all within the same ferry industry.
If you want to know more about BOOKIT, please reach out to our Sales team (contact details below) or visit our web site: www.hogiaferrysystems.com
You can also follow us on social media where we share stories and pictures about us but mostly about our customers and partners.
Instagram – hogiaferrysystems or ferryexciting
Website – www.hogiaferrysystems.com
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/showcase/hogia-ferry-systems/
Our Sales team
If you wish to get in contact with us, please reach out to either Niclas or Maria, contact details below.
Maria Åkersten
Aftersales Manager &
Acting Customer Service Manager
+358 50 516 3832