Mercator's Revenue Accounting Bureau Service, built on the industry-leading RAPID system, delivers powerful revenue accounting functionality for both passenger and cargo airline operations. The service is hosted in Mercator's twin data centres in Dubai, delivering the robust and resilient infrastructure needed to provide airlines with the highest levels of customer service. The outsourcing of an airline's revenue accounting operations to Mercator yields instant advantages; an airline's ticket data can be simply passed to Mercator's professionals with the airline then benefiting from unrivalled experience in revenue accounting. The airline avoids costly hardware and software investments, reduces manpower and training expenses and enjoys new levels of revenue enhancement. Superior decision support for the airline is also available through optional advanced Management Information System (MIS) tools. Mercator's Revenue Accounting Bureau Service offers a complete processing solution, including data capture, proration, accounting, auditing, reconciliation, management reporting and interline billing.
Many additional services, such as fare audit and credit card billing can be customised to meet an airline's specific requirements. A single transaction fee per coupon and/or air waybill allows the airline complete confidence in financial planning.
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| | | Business Benefits | | Enhances your competitive advantage through tried and tested, yet highly innovative revenue accounting processes | | Delivers powerful management information enabling effective tactical and strategic reaction | | Improves cash flow by identifying money due to your airline in the fastest possible time | | Increases profits through the swift and accurate determination of revenue earned | | Protects your bottom line through the fast and accurate billing of other airlines | | Requires a low initial investment and offers fast implementation times | | Eliminates training costs and reduces manpower requirements |  | Offers a coupon scanning and imaging service |
| | | Key Features | | | Core Services: | Global deployment over the web for filing of rates, flown revenue processing, export and import billing functions | | Scanning and data correction | | Flown and sales matching | | Full interline proration including Multilateral Proration Agreements (MPAs), Special Prorate Agreements (SPAs) and Provisos | | Revenue estimation module for sales-based revenue accounting | | Automated financial entry creation | | Interfaces to industry information sources: Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP), Global Distribution System (GDS), TCN service from ATPCO, Cargo Accounts Settlement System (CASS), Cargo Network System (CNS), Interline Data Exchange Centre (IDEC) | | Inward billing audit | | Outward billing, including form preparation and coupon dispatch | | Computation of Overriding Commission (ORC) for GSAs, and expense management
Flown incentive processing |
| | | Optional Services: | Fare audit | | Raising of Agency Debit Memos (ADMs) and Agency Credit Memos (ACMs) | | Credit card billing | | Stock management | | Rejection and recharges (2nd stage, correspondence) | | Codeshare accounting | | Other accounting activities, for example: receipting, reconciliation | | |
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