Acufuel Uploads Individualized Price Data to Multiple Fuel
Programs
Flight planning resource company
AC-U-KWIK has rolled out a new "single point of entry" feature of
acufuel.com. This new feature allows airport FBO managers who may
currently upload fuel prices to dozens of fuel programs and
websites to organizing this information in one central spot.
AC-U-KWIK's Acufuel service, through an alliance with aviation
software developer FuelerLinx, sends fuel pricing data to over two
dozen different fuel information programs and websites used by
aviation professionals around the globe. This centralized
information network enables participating FBOs to easily setup
their fuel cost data, tax breakouts and contract fuel ITP fees in a
few simple fields. The rest is straight forward, when fuel prices
change, all an FBO manager has to do is update a single cost field
and click the system's "broadcast" button. At that moment all of
the individualized pricing structures, for each fuel vendor, will
be securely sent all at once. All of this program functionality is
at no cost to FBOs.
This new service is designed to provide fuel vendors the most
current and accurate information possible, and ensure an accurate
price is displayed.
"The concept is much like modern social networking tools," said
Frank Craven, group publisher of Penton's Business Aviation
Division, in a news release Tuesday. "You used to have to post the
same updates to your pages at several different networking sites
over and over again, until new services allowed you to type your
updates once and publish them instantly to all your accounts.
Acufuel operates with the same principal: enter your prices once at
acufuel.com, and then let the system send the data everywhere it
needs to go. It saves managers valuable time and energy."
"It has been our effort to bring FBOs, flight departments, and
contract fuel vendors together in one easy to use interface," said
FuelerLinx CEO Kevin Moller. "Our intent is to tackle the delays in
FBO price updates to vendors and to display critical ramp fees into
FuelerLinx software. The Acufuel system will enable FBOs to
dispatch real-time and reliable data to the aviation community, far
more efficiently than individual disciplines can alone. This kind
of collaboration is exciting, and it is unprecedented."
The AC-U-KWIK and FuelerLinx teams say they have created a
streamlined process for FBO managers to easily join the Acufuel
service at no cost. New participants can quickly sign up for an
account at acufuel.com, retrieve welcome information that's quickly
emailed to them, and within minutes begin setting up their 100LL
and JetA fuel price information.
The frequency of price updates is up to participating FBOs,
though users are alerted when fuel prices have not been updated in
some time. When pricing is not updated on a regular basis, the
system will send auto-generated messages to FBOs reminding them to
determine if new price adjustments are needed. This ensures that
users have the most current information possible and FBOs are
taking full advantage of the free service.