Zentila, an online strategic sourcing platform for meetings and conventions, in June unveiled illuminate3P, a meetings sourcing and management solution developed specifically for third-party and independent meeting planners.
Illuminate3P offers a variety of features, including interactive bid summary, which compiles all hotel bids automatically. It is customizable with drag-and-drop functionality and allows planners to create a bid summary to share with their customers in one click and make updates in real time as planning progresses. It also offers the ability for planners to add their clients to the meeting RFP, which keeps them in the loop in the sourcing process. A search engine with planner-focused filters helps refine searches for hotels worldwide.
The platform’s suite of business intelligence tools can track commission, tailor commission agreements by customer, forecast future income and reconcile past invoices. The product also produces detailed savings and spend reports by customer or meeting. It captures and segments data by customer to provide a snapshot with customized data points showing meeting spend, negotiated savings, brand spend, spend by month and other options.
Managers can track and manage commissions with custom commission-split by customer and team member and report on key metrics for better team management.