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Solutionz does not require a signed contract to use our SmartTrip tools. Any company, non-profit, group or individual may register and build your own tools at no charge using our patent pending portal.
Revenue sharing and donations depend on the level achieved by the Partner and by the model you choose – royalties plus donations or a donations-only model. To learn about the various levels, click HERE.
Self-Service
Non-Profit
Non-profit organizations registered with the Internal Revenue Service will need to register in order to be eligible for the quarterly donation for bookings made using the SmartTrip tools. Our General Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy apply once they activate their first tool.
For-Profit and Enterprise
Enterprise clients include the sites and systems that people use daily (CRM, Calendaring, Contact Management, Event Ticketing & Registration and publishers of content sites with lists of events, venues and companies). They can be Platinum level with Solutionz or Marquis, depending on whether they require our dynamic tools and whether they wish to use our Marquis features.
- Upon creation and installation of the first SMARTtools™ powered by Solutionz patent pending TripProximity™ technology, the Partner agrees to these Terms. Solutionz then grants to Partner a worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use and publicly display:
- The SMARTtools include the full suite of SMARTtrip tools and the SMARTgrowth tools, outlined and updated from time to time on mysmart.tools.
- Links to all versions of the Services, including the SMARTtrip™ hotel, driving directions/car rental, air, concierge and mapping, including use of a graphical image in the tool and social media.
- Retrieved data and reservations for travelers to view, make, or cancel reservations through Partner’s website(s), blogs, or HTML emails, which will be linked to SMARTtools or may be included as a linked URL
- Solutionz will make new SMARTtools available to Partner upon public release to other Partners at their level, subject to then-current license fees.
- Silver Partners are those that have created SMARTtools using our self-service capabilities on the SMARTtool Partner Portal. They are able to build anywhere Tools and either host them on their own website or blog or access them via our hub, using their custom login. They also have SMARTsnapshot with travel for curated content.
- Gold Partners are those that receive implementation services to create anywhere, events and venue SMARTtools. They will be asked to complete their Account profile if they wish to donate to their charity of choice on their activity. Gold Partners will be able to use the Partner Portal to customize their SMARTtools including SMARTsnapshot without travel for curated content.
- Platinum Partners are those that receive customized implementation services to create anywhere, events and venue SMARTtools. Platinum Partners will have the ability to customize all SMARTtools; including the SMARTsnapshot with or without Travel for curated content. They will also be eligible to receive royalty payments and performance bonuses on booking activity done using their SMARTtools.
- Marquis Partners are those Partners may integrate SMARTtools dynamically. They are eligible for the same product set as Platinum Partners, plus an additional bonus royalty if they make the product available to 100% of their customers on an opt-out basis.
- Solutionz may, at its option, or by request provide Partners with a way to move to the next level through maintaining booking volumes, or payment of monthly or annual product license fees. They may also pay two years in advance to obtain a more significant discount.
- The Partner hereby grants Solutionz the right to use its name, logos, trademarks and service marks in its marketing materials or other oral, electronic, or written promotions, which shall include naming the Customer as a Partner of Solutionz.
All Levels:
• Air Tab:Optional air booking tab, also known as I’m Flying Tab, which can be added to the Hotel Booking Tool.There is no charge for this capability.
• Anywhere Tool:Solutionz has a tool that can be used by individuals, events, groups, organizations and non-profits that do not have a website or blog, and wish to use the SMARTtrip Tool. The tool automatically gets installed on our mysmart.tools hub as a private page, with its own login. Any of our Silver, Gold, Platinum or Marquis Partners may also use the Anywhere capability on their website or blog, or hosted on our site.
• Booking System:The system that provides real-time availability and pricing for hotels, including group inventory and optionally for car rental, motorcycle and air tickets, and that supports booking, modification and cancellation of booking either online or via phone. Also, known as Reservation Services.
• Concierge: Curated Content Tab, which can be added to SMARTtools as default navigation providing relevant content links, which may or may not be travel related.
• Driving Tab: Optional driving directions and car rental tab is available. This also includes motorcycle booking for select cities worldwide.
• End-User: The traveler using the integrated SMARTtools on our Partner or their Internal systems, website or blog page(s).
• I’m Staying Tool: The hotel trip planning tool powered by TravelingtoGive™ is the standard tool available for all clients.
• Partner Portal: The Partner Portal provides a dashboard showing SMARTtools usage and which allows modification, cloning and archiving of tools.
• Reservation Services: Real-time availability and pricing for hotels, alternative lodging and optionally for car rental, motorcycle and air tickets, with booking and cancellation of booking either online or via phone. Also, known as Booking System.
• Services: The SMARTtools and the booking system and related services provided by Solutionz, which Partners will make available to End-Users via Partner websites, blogs, social media links, email links, and other media platforms.
• SMARTmap Tool: The basic Tool with the map as the primary tool. The other tabs (I’m Staying, I’m Driving and I’m Flying) are also available.
• Smart Tools: The SMARTtools produced by installing the code provided by Solutionz to Partner for customization for its organizations, venues and/or events.
• SMARTtrip Tool: The basic Tool with the hotel booking capability (I’m Staying) as the primary tool. The map is embedded in that tab and can be expanded to fill the screen. Optionally the I’m Driving and I’m Flying tabs are available.
• Static Widget: A SMARTtool contains stored information for a single venue, company, location or event.
• TripProximity™:The patent pending technology platform, including the SMARTtools (“Tool”), and related backend functionalities developed and supported by Solutionz, including the Partner Portal . This platform and the related intellectual property is the sole property of Solutionz Group, LLC and all rights are reserved per US Copyright law.
• Tool Code:The code provided by Solutionz to Partner for customization for its organizations, venues and/or events. Also, known as the Tool snippet. The SMARTtools can be customized using our Partner Portal online.
• tVITE™: The patent pending capabilities that allow any traveler to send a travel invitation to a list of co-travelers or to event attendees.
Platinum and Marquis Partners Only:
- Bonus: A bonus payment from Solutionz to the Marquis Partner that is granted when the Partner agrees to turn on the SMARTtool for all of its Customers on an opt-out basis. Bonus is paid on a pre-agreed schedule that represents a percentage of the Company’s revenues from bookings made by the Partner’s Referral Customers. Revenues are received for Consumed Bookings after the service is rendered. A report of paid bookings by Tracking Code is provided to Partner on a quarterly basis, if the Partner has provided a code that includes a unique number for each Customer.
- Booking Brand:The brand that consumers see when they make a booking on the Partner’s system using a SMARTtool. This will be the brand of one of our booking partners.
- Charitable Contribution:Annually Solutionz contributes 10% of its gross revenues from net bookings to the Special Olympics, the Marquis charity of Solutionz for our Silver Partners. Solutionz contriibutes 10% for our for-profit clients to their charity of choice and 25% to our registered non profit partners(501c3). Payment is made to the charity of choice of our Gold Partners quarterly, and Platinum and Marquis Partners monthly. Solutionz doubles the contribution to a registered Anti-Human Trafficking or Veterans non profit.
- Consumed Bookings: Once a service is rendered, that booking is considered consumed and payment for gross bookings less cancellations will be received generally within 30-60 days by Solutionz. At that time, we will pay the royalty earned to our partners.
- SMARTsnapshot: This SMARTtool is our link-in bio tool that competes with linktr.ee. The benefit is that it is hosted on the client site and each tool contains a link to the client's travel tool, giving them the donation component on every tool, plus the potential for earning royalties.
- Dynamic Tool: A SMARTtooll that has dynamic information passed from an enterprise platform or website at the time it is rendered. This allows a single instance of the Tool to multiple venues, companies, locations or events. A short script must be written by the Partner to pass those variables, and as such requires some technical skill.
- Enterprise Partner: A Partner who integrates the Services into its software system or publishing platform to deliver to the End-User and the potential travelers using their system. They have the same access as our Platinum Partners, but must be at the Marquis partner level.
- Implementation Plan:The DIY Implementation Plan provided to our Silver Partners, the standard Implementation Plan provided to our Gold Partners, and our custom Implementation Plan, provided to Platinum and Marquis Partners.
- Silver Partner: A Silver Partner that achieves a booking level of 10 bookings, is eligible for a free Gold Upgrade. Silver Partners are also eligible for choosing their charity of choice from the 11th booking after the upgrade.
- Platinum Partner: For profit Platinum Partners are eligible for Royalties from 1st booking, and non-profit Platinum Partners are eligible for donations from the first booking. Payments are made monthly.
- Gold Partner: For profit Gold Partners are eligible to choose their charity of choice.
- Map Transaction:The SMARTmap tool is powered by Google’s mapping API. Our Marquis Partners are free to use our mapping and geolocation capabilities a part of their product license.
- Net Revenues: The commission revenues for Consumed Hotel or Car Bookings for a given period, less cancellations. Note that there are no commissions on air bookings, only a small service fee which is shared on the same percentage basis as hotel and car bookings for our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Marquis Partners.
- Partner Portal:The SMARTtool™ Portal provides a dashboard showing SMARTtool usage and which allows modification, cloning and archiving of tools.
- Royalty: A payment from Solutionz to the Platinum and Marquis Partners on a pre-agreed schedule that represents a percentage of the Company’s revenues from bookings made by the Partner and their Referrals. Revenues are received for Consumed Bookings after the service is rendered.
- SPOC: Single point of contact.
- Tracking Code: The coding system used by Partners to distinguish its Customers using its software system, which is provided by the Partner in the REFCLICKID field in the code snippet.
- Referral Model: For Platinum and Marquis Partners a customer registration link will enable a 10% referral fee in Royalties or additional Charitable Contributions for the first year of the referred customer's use of the system.
| What do SMARTtrip tools do? | Gathers information from the traveler to facilitate hotel booking and optional driving directions, car rental, motorcycle rental and air booking. Specific capabilities are selected in the Implementation Plan determined by the subscribed level of service found at https://solutionz.com/levels/. |
| How does it work? | The Smart Tools may be hard coded with event and/or venue information or it may be set up dynamically to be integrated into an Enterprise platform and delivered to their Customers, with the variables filled in at transaction time from the Partner’s event or venue information. |
| Where does it work? | It can be inserted into an HTML or WordPress website or blog or any platform that supports HTML and JavaScript, such as an advanced email platform. Optionally, a user can place the Anywhere tool on the mysmart.tools hub site and have their own private login to their personal SMARTtool page. |
| Who uses it? | Venue and Events Tool – Anyone who needs or wants a hotel room close to an organization, a venue or an event, or someone that needs to view the venue on a map, with driving directions, a rental car, motorcycle or an airline booking. Anywhere Tool – Any individual or organization that does not have a travel agent relationship may create their own personal SMARTtools page. It will reside on mysmart.tools hub on their own private page. |
| When do they use it? | The highest engagement will be with the SMARTtool integrated into a buying path (ticketing, registration or reservations). The need for the hotel room is never higher than at that transaction time. However, depending on the event or catalyst for the trip, the individual may need to check with others before booking a hotel room, so it is essential to provide access from the venue/event page, as well as in a confirmation email if it exists. |
| Why is it better than other options | Other booking solutions are city- and airport-centric and do not place the traveler near the venue or event where they need to be. They also do not generally pass the event data to the booking request, requiring the consumer to do all the work. Lastly, other online travel sites do not generally make a donation on the traveler's behalf. |
All Partners:
- From time to time, at the discretion of Solutionz, the Services may be enhanced. Solutionz reserves the right to restrict certain features from our offering for various levels.
- Solutionz will provide a dashboard for all searches and bookings made via Partner’s site(s) via the Partner Portal.
- To ensure competitiveness of Services, Solutionz will source competitively priced travel products, including hotel rooms, airline tickets, car rentals, maps and navigation tools, and local venue information.
- All inventory may be sourced from a variety of providers and may yield different revenue streams based on whether it is prepaid by the Partner or paid at the time the traveler arrives at the hotel.
- Unless otherwise indicated on the site, all air tickets and hotel bookings are pre-paid at the time of booking with a credit card. Some hotels offer “pay when you check out” and car rental bookings are always paid upon return of the car.
- Car rental bookings are reserved with a credit card but will be paid at the time that the car is picked up.
- All reservations shall remain confidential and will not be shared with or be visible to Solutionz Partners. Solutionz provides the ability for our Marquis partners to include the passenger name and email in the SMARTtool for tracking purposes. If this feature is not enabled, we will not be able to provide that information back to our Clients.
- The traveler may view their reservation online by entering the traveler name and the confirmation number or credit card number used to make the reservation. This link is embedded in the Tool and in booking confirmation emails,
Gold, Platinum and Enterprise Only:
- Enhancements shall be made available to new Gold, Platinum and Marquis Partners on the same terms as are applicable to our other existing Partners.
- In January of each year, Solutionz will conduct an annual review with each Platinum and Marquis Partner to discuss our Product Roadmap for the coming year.
- To enable tracking of bookings, Partner will provide its Partner numbering in the prescribed Tracking field on the portal or in the variables provided.
- For those bookings that can be paid at the time of checkout, or for those made via a GROUP RFP/blocked space, the royalty stream for our Platinum and Marquis Partners is significantly lower than for prepaid inventory.
- The Account Director will review each Platinum and Marquis Partner’s activity and in the first week of each month provide written observations and recommendations to increase End-User engagement, bookings, conversion.
- Solutionz will provide all travelers with reservations phone support, which will be provided to End-Users from booking through completion of travel on a 7×24 basis, 365 days per year in 40 languages.
- Support services will be delivered by Solutionz’s back-end reservations service, Priceline Partner Network or such other provider selected by Solutionz, at our discretion. Support will include cancellation and re-accommodation in the case of overbooking.
- In North America, support services will be via U.S. toll-free phone service. Outside North America, support services will be via a toll call.
- To receive support services, travelers will need to provide their trip number, phone number, and the email they used to make bookings.
- Solutionz will provide our Partners with service to resolve any escalated matters and complaints. Solutionz Partner service policy is to “say yes” under all reasonable circumstances—and requires manager approval for any Account Director or Partner care team to decline Partner or End-User requests.
- Solutionz will provide to Partner and End-Users contact information for email inquiries or complaints.
- Solutionz may add additional inventory providers from time to time without notice, if there is no material negative front-end impact to Partner or its End Users, which will mean causing a decline of more than 10% in Partner’s normal booking volume, adjusted for seasonality.
- If Solutionz anticipates inventory provider changes will impact the End-User experience, Solutionz will provide Partner: (a) 30 days of prior written notice; and (b) recommended FAQ pages and training materials regarding such occurrence.
- All reservations made on the site are subject to acceptance by Solutionz in accordance with its policies then in effect, including the stated policies of the travel vendors, particularly as it relates to cancellation policies.
- There are monthly or annual product license fees for Gold, Platinum and Marquis Level partners for the use of the SMARTtools.
- There are optional one-time Implementation Fees for Gold, Platinum, and Enterprise Level for assistance in deploying the Smart Tools.
- All Fees will be paid net of any sales tax, value added tax, or other similar taxes.
- All amounts stated in this Agreement are in U.S. dollars
- Platinum Partners and Marquis Partners are eligible for Royalties from first booking to be paid monthly
- Solutionz will make all payments of royalties to eligible Partners on a monthly or quarterly basis by the 15th day of each month following the end of each month or quarter once a minumum of $100 in royalties has been achieved. Payment frequency is determined by subscription level.
- This Agreement becomes effective upon the use of the first SMARTtool, as of the Effective Date, for an initial term of one (1) year. Thereafter, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive terms, each of one (1) year, unless terminated as set out below.
- Partner may terminate this Agreement for any reason within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date.
- Solutionz may suspend access to Services or terminate this Agreement immediately and without notice if: (a) Partner produces less than ten (10) bookings per month for three (3) consecutive months after the initial three (3) months following the Effective Date; or (b) if Partner does not complete implementation of the SMARTtool on at least one of its websites within three (3) months following the Effective Date.
- Either Party may terminate this Agreement by giving written notice to the other Party with immediate effect if the other Party commits a material breach of this Agreement, and does not remedy such breach (if it is capable of remedy) within thirty (30) days of written notice of such breach; or an order is made or a resolution is passed for the dissolution of the other Party, except for purposes of consolidation, merger, or restructuring; or the other Party is the subject of a voluntary or involuntary filing under the insolvency or bankruptcy laws of any jurisdiction.
- Upon termination of this Agreement, each Party will immediately return to the other Party all property of any kind and nature provided under this Agreement and belonging to the other Party.
- Each Party’s rights and obligations will cease immediately upon termination of this Agreement, except that termination will not affect: (a) a Party’s rights and obligations accrued but unsatisfied at termination; and (b) any provision of this Agreement expressed to survive its termination.
- NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES HOWSOEVER ARISING, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGES FOR LOST TIME, REVENUE, PROFIT, OR Partner GOODWILL; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; OR SIMILAR MATTERS OF ANY KIND, EVEN IF THE OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE.
- THE PARTIES’ SOLE OBLIGATIONS AND LIABILITIES ARE AS STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT. ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIONS, CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE—WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INNOCENT OR NEGLIGENT, BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE—ARE EXCLUDED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
- THIS AGREEMENT IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
Each Party indemnifies the other Party, including its parents, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, and agents against third-party claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and costs of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and dispute settlement costs regarding indemnity) arising directly or indirectly from the indemnifying Party’s gross negligence, willful misconduct, or performance under this Agreement This clause will survive termination of this Agreement.
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