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Block ticket as inexpensive selling way
Block sales as selling way in the passenger traffic
© Uwe Losse last updating 2006-10-17
Advantages of the block tickets
Disadvantages of the block tickets
Transporting enterprises with block ticket
The block ticket is still occasionally an alternative to modern sales systems. In this case the tickets are manufactured first in printering and block-by-block to the sales personnel to the sales passed on.
When using block tickets the acquisition investment for modern sales systems is void, like e.g. Advance booking cashes, ticket printers or ticket automats and for it the necessary Background systems.
The transporting enterprise can of it needed Tickets in trustworthy printering to manufacture and then block-by-block let spend to the officials. No sales procedure goes as fast, as that Block sales, the personnel leaves the ticket from the block and hands the ticket to the passenger out.
- long delivery times: New tickets must in that Printering to be ordered. Short term introduction of new tickets is only conditionally possible therefore.
- big account times: With the manual sales develop with the sales personnel and for those administration downstream increased account expenditure
- big sales for special tickets: Tickets (e.g. Monatskarten) must be filled out manually. In this case the block sales of disadvantage and a sales procedure are lengthy.
- Information loss: Statistic evaluations are only difficult and in many cases not at all possible. Much information about the passengers is lost so.
- New procurement with price of transportation increases: If that Price of transportation on the block tickets is printed, must existing existence with price increases or with value added tax increases be disposed
Block tickets are for simple tariff structures of importance with those it around the fast sales go. If rush hours are to be intercepted those it justify, the disadvantages in the statistic evaluation and that increased account and administration expense in purchase to take.
Block tickets are interesting also for the transporting enterprises, which cannot master the investments for electronic sales systems due to their financial situation.