Commtrak

Since 1987, Commtrak has delivered supplemental hotel billing and commission recovery services to travel firms in North America. Commtrak customers currently include many of the most respected agencies and distribution firms, and nearly all of the 15 largest in the current Travel Weekly Power List. The agency, or a contracted 3rd party, forwards se... lected hotel files to Commtrak on a monthly schedule. The required billing data is easily accessed from all agency back room systems. Files reflect open, unresolved records from specific time periods. Items have usually been previously invoiced by the agency or another third party. The agency ages documents according to their preferred parameters. Other 3rd party firms usually cease all billing efforts at 180 days from travel dates. Commtrak receives files only after others have concluded all reconciliation efforts. Commtrak applies all files to a QC utility that matches each item to our worldwide hotel database of over 95,000 properties. This utility corrects many record errors, purges duplicates, and identifies and posts many net rate bookings prior to billing. The edited file is integrated into our invoice database. Commtrak employs an aggregate billing system where individual hotel invoices include records from our entire customer base. As each new hotel file is sent to Commtrak, it is integrated into the existing data pool. Records in our data base do not close out until they are resolved, or until they age beyond 24 months from the travel date. Hotels are billed according to pre-set schedules. As each agency record meets the scheduled billing parameters, it is included on a professionally printed, mailed invoice document. We prefer to bill individual properties, not hotel chains or management groups. While more costly than fax or electronic programs, we feel that our process is far more effective in generating responses. We lower our mailing costs by applying our aggregate billing methodology. All hotel responses come directly to Commtrak. Our agents ...Read More