AXS-One signs up Virgin Holidays as 50th customer for its e-Delivery Service

AXS-One Inc., a provider of high-performance records compliance management software solutions, has roped in Virgin Holidays as the 50th European tour operator to sign up the AXS-One e-Delivery Service.

The three-year agreement allows Virgin Holidays to communicate electronically with the thousands of travel agents it works with, and eliminate postage and printing costs.

Virgin Holidays estimates that it currently prints and posts an average of 375,000 invoices per year to its agents in the UK and Ireland. The e-Delivery Service, launched in April last year for the UK travel industry, helps in reducing operational costs by transforming paper-based invoicing processes to electronic invoicing systems.

According to the company, it has already attracted 4,600 UK travel agents registrations, representing 68 per cent of the UK travel agent community. The service is currently being extended to enable Irish travel agents to receive documents from UK tour operators.

Stewart Baird, sales and operations director, Virgin Holidays commented: “The sheer number of agents that have signed up to the AXS-One e-Delivery Service over the past 12 months made the decision to switch a simple one.”

The AXS-One e-Delivery Service delivers a hosted, managed environment designed to capture and securely archive documentation generated by tour operators and to deliver documents such as confirmation invoices and pre departure changes electronically to travel agents, says the company.