Solution · Tourism and charter
Software for bus tour companies: sell every seat on the bus
Every tour, pilgrimage or special trip is a departure with its own seat map. Sell at the box office, on WhatsApp and on your website, take deposits and OXXO payments, and manage drivers, expenses, repairs and GPS.
Sound familiar?
Filling the bus is the easy part
According to Mexico's Ministry of Tourism, 8 out of 10 tourists, domestic and foreign, travel between destinations by bus. People want to travel with you; the hard part is behind the scenes: seats held in a notebook, deposits in cash and road expenses on scraps of paper.
The passenger list lives in a notebook
"Save me two seats for the pilgrimage." Nobody writes it down with a name and a seat, and on departure day you have extra passengers or missing seats.
Deposits nobody keeps track of
Everyone pays part of the fare whenever they can. In the end you don't know who has paid in full, who still owes and how much.
Selling on WhatsApp by hand
Messages at all hours, transfer screenshots and tickets made one at a time, while another group books with someone else.
A day with Boleti
One departure with Boleti, from the first sale to the trip back
This is what selling seats for tours looks like when everything lives in one place: the same departure at the box office, on your website and on WhatsApp, with its bus and its driver.
Planning
You set up the departure
Create the trip on its date, with its bus and its seat map. If you pick people up at several points, the route has its stops and a fare for each leg.
On sale
You sell everywhere
Box office, website and WhatsApp sell from the same seat map, so no one sells the same seat twice. Whoever holds a seat pays a deposit and gets the ticket once paid in full.
Departure
They board with their QR
The driver scans each ticket from their phone, only for the trip you assigned them; a held seat that wasn't paid off doesn't board. You see on the map where the bus is.
Back home
You settle accounts
Approve the diesel and toll receipts, pay the driver with a receipt, and a report shows the tour's profit: revenue minus costs. If the bus comes back with a problem, the cost goes to that unit.
What you will use
What you'll use on every departure
Software for bus tour companies has to cover both the sale and the road. These six modules come with the Línea plan and work from the same seat map and the same buses.
Online sales
Your branded website: passengers pick seats on the live seat map and pay from their phone, even for their whole group in a single purchase.
See Online salesTickets on WhatsApp
Your groups already message you on WhatsApp. You answer there, and the QR ticket, the trip reminder and any notices arrive in the same chat.
See Tickets on WhatsAppCard and OXXO payments
Online card payments, OXXO for people who only carry cash, and box office deposits for those who book early.
See Card and OXXO paymentsDrivers and payroll
The trip's cash advance, diesel and tolls with a photo of each receipt, and driver pay per trip or per kilometer.
See Drivers and payrollMaintenance by bus
Each bus with its repair history and its costs, so you know when it's due for service before the busy season.
See Maintenance by busGPS tracking
See on the map where the tour bus is and where it has been, without calling the driver while they're on the road.
See GPS tracking
Suggested plan
The plan that fits a tour company
Línea includes your branded sales website, online card and OXXO payments, drivers and payroll, maintenance and GPS tracking. It covers up to 8 buses, 3 box offices and 30 routes; if your fleet grows, Flotilla goes up to 15 buses.
Línea plan
From $79 USD a month
30 days free, no card needed
Frequently asked questions
Questions from tour companies
Can I sell a tour that only runs once?
Yes. You create it as a trip on its date, with its bus and its seat map, and it sells at the box office, on your website and on WhatsApp. If you pick passengers up at several points, the route has stops with a fare for each leg. If the departure won't happen, you suspend it and it stops selling.
Can my passengers hold a seat with a deposit?
Yes. At the box office, the passenger pays part of the fare and gets a deposit receipt, which isn't valid for boarding. When they pay the rest before the deadline, Boleti issues their ticket and sends it on WhatsApp. If they don't pay in time, the seat is released according to the deposit policy you set.
How do people without a card pay?
At the box office, in cash or by bank transfer. If they buy on your website or on WhatsApp, they pay cash at OXXO and convenience stores on BBVA's Openpay network with a payment reference, and their seat stays held while they pay. The ticket is issued once the payment is confirmed. OXXO payments come with the Línea plan and up.
How do I know who's on the bus?
With the trip's passenger list, sorted in route order, which you download as a spreadsheet or print on thermal paper for the driver. At boarding, the driver scans each ticket's QR code, the seat is marked as Boarded and the passenger gets a WhatsApp confirmation.
Does it work for trips that aren't sold by the seat?
Boleti is built to sell by the seat: every seat with its passenger, its payment and its ticket. Renting out the whole bus? Schedule it as one more trip, with its bus and its driver: that way you track their trip expenses and payroll, and repairs and GPS stay tracked per bus. You agree on the price with your client. Questions? Message us and we'll work it out with you.
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Start today
Sell your next tour seat by seat
Try Boleti free for 30 days, no card needed. We help you load your routes and fares so you can sell your next departure.
That's why Boleti is the best bus ticketing system in Mexico: your tour is sold, paid and run in one place.
No card and no lock-in