Channel Support Tea Time
Last updated: October 30, 2025
Tea Time Objective
Tea Time provides our colleagues at FareHarbor with opportunities to expand their knowledge and explore distribution growth opportunities that enhance our clients’ experience. Our goal is to deliver insightful presentations led by Channel Support specialists and other teams who frequently collaborate with Channel Support. These sessions focus on key topics that are commonly raised by our clients about affiliates, ensuring our team is well-equipped to provide exceptional support.
Taking on this learning objective will serve as a strong incentive for other teams to deepen their understanding of how affiliates can be leveraged within FareHarbor to grow our clients’ businesses. This initiative will enhance overall productivity and enable FareHarbor employees to:
- Confidently respond to client inquiries about increasing revenue through affiliate partnerships
- Address general affiliate-related questions that arise during client interactions
- Resolve basic affiliate troubleshooting issues, improving the overall client experience
- Support the Sales team in increasing total transaction volume (TTV) during a client’s first year
By investing in this knowledge, teams will be better equipped to contribute to client success and strengthen FareHarbor’s value as a trusted partner.
Tea Time 2024
Month 1: The Channel Support Tea Shop – Why should clients work with affiliates?
This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of Channel Support, including key terminology and foundational concepts to better understand the department’s role. It begins by defining who Channel Support is and clarifying essential terms such as “affiliate,” while distinguishing between Direct bookings and FHDN/FHDN API (FareHarbor Distribution Network) bookings. The presentation outlines the various benefits of working with affiliates, including extended market reach, cost-effective marketing strategies, the ability to focus on core business operations, and the opportunity to build stronger partnerships. Additionally, it covers the four main booking options available, explores API connections and FHDN/Connect functionality, and explains how price sheets operate—highlighting that commissions can be configured as either a percentage or a fixed dollar amount.
Month 2: How to easily read affiliate setups – Reviewing affiliate set ups
This presentation focuses on the theme of understanding and reviewing affiliate setups, making it especially useful for team members who want to easily interpret how affiliate configurations are structured. Key topics discussed include the different payment processes and setup types, with an explanation of how each method functions within FareHarbor. It also highlights the importance of reviewing configurations to gain a full picture of how an affiliate is set up. The session explores what FareHarbor recommends to clients, common FAQs, and how to confidently address client inquiries regarding affiliate setups. Real-world examples, case studies, and common internal questions from tickets or Slack are encouraged to reinforce the content and provide practical context.
Month 3: Where can the charter company see their affiliate commissions – Affiliate reporting
This presentation focuses on the theme of affiliate reporting, specifically helping charter companies understand where and how to view affiliate commissions. It provides an in-depth overview of the Booking Source Report—what it is, how to generate it, and when it’s most useful. Key details include the difference between availability date and booking creation date, as well as important report columns clients may want to focus on. The session also covers the basics of invoicing, including how to identify unpaid vs. paid bookings, why invoicing is not automatic, and how charter companies can determine what they are owed or make adjustments to invoice amounts. The presentation equips team members with guidance on how to effectively answer related client questions and encourages the use of real case studies or support examples to bring clarity to common issues and scenarios.
Month 4: How to correctly contact Channel Support internally vs externally – Submitting a ticket to Channel Support vs. Having the client do it themselves
This presentation focuses on how to properly contact Channel Support, outlining when FareHarbor team members should reach out internally versus when clients should contact support themselves. It covers how to differentiate between FHDN, direct affiliate, and API bookings, and directs internal issues to the appropriate teams via Slack, email, or internal forms. It emphasizes that Channel Support should only be contacted for API price discrepancies. The presentation also highlights available client resources (ie: affiliate request forms, Channel Support email) and offers real case studies to illustrate best practices in communication.
Month 5: How affiliates can make bookings in FareHarbor – The 4 Booking Options
This presentation outlines the four main booking options affiliates can use in FareHarbor: ASN links, QR codes, promo codes, and affiliate dashboards. ASN and QR codes allow only the charter to collect payment and enable easy, trackable, real-time bookings. Promo codes let affiliates tag bookings via the charter’s site, helping increase traffic and visibility. The affiliate dashboard is the most flexible option, supporting various setups like referral deposits, net rates, and reporting. The session also covers when to use each option and how to confidently address client questions.
Tea Time 2025
Month 1: Welcome back to Tea Time!
This is an overview of Tea Time 2024 alongside the Affiliate Journey in FareHarbor. We discuss our many affiliate products, affiliate connection options, and a review on each of our affiliate teams. This is a crucial presentation for anyone who is new to affiliates or needs a refresher on how affiliates work in FareHarbor.
Month 2: Meet your Connectivity team!
This presentation provides an introduction to the Connectivity team and an overview of how Channel Support collaborates with them. Throughout the presentation, we outline the key responsibilities of each team and discuss the API fee and its relevance to their respective roles. You should feel confident discussing API connections after watching this presentation.
Month 3: Meet Your Strategic Partnership Team!
This presentation provides an introduction to the Strategic Partnership team and an overview of how Channel Support collaborates with them. Throughout the presentation, we outline the key responsibilities of each team, the FHDN/FHDN API and Marketplace. You will learn how to properly discuss this product and understand the key selling points you can push.
Month 4: How To Market Affiliates to FareHarbor Clients
Are you in a client-facing role? Then this presentation is designed for you! It covers how to effectively promote our affiliate products to clients, highlights key selling points for each offering, and includes client success stories you can share to demonstrate value and build confidence in our solutions.
FAQs
- Where can I follow up with a question post tea time?
- If you have any questions regarding Tea Time or affiliate-related inquiries where additional training might be helpful, please feel free to follow up in our Slack channel
#cs-tea-time. Within the channel, you’ll find a helpful workflow titled Heating up the Kettle to guide you through the process.
- If you have any questions regarding Tea Time or affiliate-related inquiries where additional training might be helpful, please feel free to follow up in our Slack channel
- Where can I reach out for a basic affiliate question that doesn’t require a full training?
- You can follow up in our
#strategicpartners-affiliatesslack channel where we quickly answer basic questions without background details.
- You can follow up in our
- How do I know when the next Tea Time session is?
- After each Aloha Friday you will receive an invite to join the tea time session the following Wednesday.
- Tea Time sessions in 2025 will occur once a month from July to October.
- Please reach out to Cameron Heth or Ryan Kielty if you did not receive an invite.