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Itinerary building and the trip data model
In short
How a multi-day trip is represented before anyone prices it — components, days, templates, variants, versions and the client-facing proposal — and why the model chosen here decides what quoting and operations are able to do later.
4 pages
diagnostic
definitions
- The itinerary component: the smallest thing a trip can be built fromOne purchasable service carrying its own supplier, date, duration, pricing basis and cancellation term — and if it cannot be cancelled or repriced alone, it is a field on a component.definition6 min
- The trip day: why day three is not a date until a departure is chosenDay 3 becomes 14 March only once a departure exists. Storing the offset instead of the date is what makes shifting a departure and inserting a day survivable operations.definition6 min
- Version, variant, revision: three itinerary objects, not oneA version is a snapshot, a variant is a parallel option, a revision is what the client has actually seen. Collapse them and the invoice, the proposal and the voucher start disagreeing.definition8 min
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