BSP and BSPLink Training for Travel Agents

1.5-day (12 hours) workshop

IATA’s BSP and BSPlink Workshop for Travel Agents workshop is designed for travel agents to learn more about local IATA Billing and Settlement Procedures (BSP) and Governance, and BSPlink functionalities. During the workshop, you will gain a deeper understanding of BSP processes and features, the Passenger Agency Program, program enhancements supporting BSP operations and BSPlink functionality. The workshop duration is flexible to meet your needs, based on your preferred selection of curriculum topics, delivered at your location of choice.

Course code: TTC032VEEN01

Availability
This course is offered exclusively as an in-company (in-house) program, designed to be delivered directly to your team. If you’re interested in arranging this training for your organization, we’d be happy to hear from you. Please reach out to IATA using the contact form on this page

For more information, please visit our page on virtual classroom timing or contact our Customer Portal.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Define Billing and Settlement Procedures (BSP) processes and understand local financial criteria and requirements
• Use common terms and decode abbreviations
• Locate and interpret the reporting calendar and billing reports
• Use the BSPlink tool and various BSPlink functions to manage in-office BSP operations
• Manage refund applications
• Investigate the status of BSP transactions and handle remittance procedures
• Manage agency credit and debit memos
• Minimize errors, adopting best practices in dealing with agents and on BSPlink
• Use the IATA Customer Portal
• Understand market monitoring

The key topics that are covered during this workshop include:

• IATA Governance
• Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP)
• IATA BSP and BSP language
• BSPlink functionalities
• BSP standard traffic documents, Agency Debit Memo (ADM) and Agency Credit Memo (ACM) procedures
• BSP Airline billing reports and procedures
• BSP remittance and settlement procedures
• BSP calendar, disputing and irregularity procedures
• Market monitoring report and market performance information
• Appropriate use of the IATA Customer Service Portal

This workshop is recommended for:

• Travel agents and agency owners
• Accountants, finance and back-office staff

Workshop format

• This workshop provides 1.5 days (12 hours) of instruction delivered by an official IATA Instructor.

Prerequisites

• Participants should have prior knowledge of BSPlink functionalities and reporting procedures.
• Recommended level is Entry-level and Intermediate.
• The recommended level of language proficiency is ICAO Operational Level 4 for courses in English or the equivalent level for other languages.

An IATA Certificate of Participation is awarded to all workshop participants.