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Classic Plus consists of a series of software modules, several of which
are included in the basic software package, other modules are optional.
Modules required by all rental companies are included in the basic package.
Certain rental companies, because of their size and/or the nature of their
operation, require the functions contained in the optional packages.
With the Classic Plus system, your needs dictate. The source code comes standard
with the Orion system and can be fully customized to meet your needs.
For example, the Advanced Reservations module provides additional
capabilities for local reservation centers, together with an interface to
receive and automatically integrate reservations from most national reservation
centers, including Avis, Budget, Dollar, Thrifty, and VIP-HARS. This module may
not be required by a small, nonaffiliated rental business.
The links below provide a brief recap of the functions, features, and benefits of selected modules.
Rental Operations
Local Reservations Daily
Business Commission Agent
Accounting Vehicle Inventory
Report Generator
Rental Operations contains programs used by agents in their day-to-day activity. It’s
an on-line, real-time system that instantly updates all critical data files and
records. Information is current and errors common with batch-style systems are
prevented.
Contract Inquiry == Double click for full screen view
Features Include
 | On-line opening and closing of rental agreements |
| Handles nonrevenue and foreign car rentals |
| Quick Rate Change to quickly and easily update rates |
| Displays available vehicles, including description and stall location |
| Handles split rates, vehicle exchanges, tour vouchers, and direct-bill
customers |
| Handles insurance replacement rentals |
| Automatic calculation of all time and mileage charges, refueling
charges, charges for additional and young adult drivers, baby seats,
limited damage waivers, drop charges, taxes, prepurchased gas, and various
surcharges |
| Automatically pulls and links reservation and previous customer history to
rental agreement at open |
| Includes cash drawer balancing report by agent or drawer |
| Supports commissioning of sales agents |
| Reports on reservation activity, due-back vehicles, and overdue vehicles |
| Rate flexibility hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, weekend, flat,
corporate, and split rates |
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Local Reservation provides for the entry of local reservations and includes features
that allow you to have the performance of a full local reservation center.
Features Include
| Special screens for local reservation agents to quickly enter reservations |
| The screen displays available rates and a summary of rates by car class |
| Agents can add optional contract charges such as coverages, baby seats,
etc. |
| Estimated total includes all location taxes and surcharges |
| Reservation agents are able to interact with customers and take "best
rate" reservations accurately. Agents can also create a rate during
reservation add (if allowed by management) |
| Customer information can be entered and saved in the repeat customer file
during reservation add, which speeds up the contract-open process |
| Insurance replacement/third-party billing can be entered here. This
information will flow into the contract at the time of open |
| Reservations for previous customers interface with the repeat customer
file to link stored data to new reservations |
| Reports are provided to monitor agent activity, reservation volume,
reservation manifest, and fleet requirements |
| Deposit information can be entered and accounted for in the daily business
reporting. Deposits automatically transfer to contract open |
| Supports immediate or batch printing of reservation confirmation notices |
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 Daily Business
helps you monitor and report on rental
activity on a daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. It’s a comprehensive system for recording
transactions, business statistics, and historical information. It can operate as
a stand-alone module or interface with the optional accounting modules.
Features Include
| Audited and unaudited daily business reports |
| Automatic posting of closed rental agreements to accounts receivable |
| Current results versus historical results |
| Two-tiered source-of-business reports |
| Commission reports for sales and travel agents |
| Commission information transfer for submission for corporate customers |
| Parking ticket module |
| Revenue accrual reports for end-of-month accounting |
| Revenue reports and fleet statistics (with averages) by day, week, month,
year, and vehicle class |
| Revenue Charge Tables establish revenue sources and provide for custom
reporting, tracking, and calculation of all reservation and contract charges |
| User-defined screens to display an instantaneous "Snapshot" of
fleet utilization by vehicle class, location, or groups of locations |
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The
Commission Agent module provides programs to account for and pay travel agents, hotels,
or any other non-employee referring rentals to you.
Features Include
| Reports on master files and transaction files |
| Tracks no-shows and reservation cancellations |
| Print commission reports |
| Supports commissions based on percentage of time and mileage or flat
commission amount per rental |
| Prints commission checks as stand-alone module or through optional
Accounts Payable module |
| Allows restart of interrupted check runs |
| Commission agent analysis reports can be printed alphabetically,
geographically by zip code, or by most rental activity |
| Tracks commission agent activity by current period, last period, or
all-time |
| Statistics tracked include: time and mileage gross income, commissions
paid, number of rentals and reservations, and last rental and last
reservation date |
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Vehicle Inventory
is used to enter and maintain vehicle records and statistics.
Vehicle master file inquiries and reports can be
printed or displayed at any time. Fleet maintenance alerts can be created based
on time or mileage. Fleet reconciliation and analysis reports can be run by
year/make/model or city/location/company for any range of dates. Straight-line
and accelerated depreciation methods are available.
Vehicle Master 
Double click for full screen view 
Snapshot
Features Include
| On-line vehicle status automatically updated by rental activity |
| Utilizes extensive code tables for accurate and consistent descriptions
and reports |
| On-line program for physical inventories |
| Out-of-service reports to assist in tracking fleet repairs |
| Complete rental history maintained on each vehicle |
| Traffic violations lookup and reports |
| Missing miles report with user-definable lower mileage limit |
| Depreciation, book value, and bank loan balance reports |
| Fleet analysis reports by make/model/mileage |
| Create maintenance schedules and run work-to-do reports |
| Track vehicle maintenance history |
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Report Generator enables you design reports, extracting data from the
files on your system. You specify column headings, report format, and any math
between columns necessary to interpret the information contained in your report.
This module is useful when the data contained in any of the 100+ reports
supplied with the standard Orion system is insufficient.
Features Include
| User-created reports can be added to system menus |
| Two screens are used to create reports |
| Data can be drawn from primary and secondary files |
| Column headings and widths can be user-defined |
| Report lists for any report in the system can be printed in summary
or detail |
| Supports sorts in ascending or descending order |
| Fields can be selected by range of high/low |
| Supports subtotals, page breaks, records printed, and grand totals |
| Supports printing in stack, printing to file, and ODBC for link to
Excel and other programs |
| Reports can be saved for printing in the future |
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