FBO Director

FBO Director is web software for aviation businesses. It is for the fixed base operator, the company that serves private aircraft on the ground. It handles invoicing, billing, flight school management, maintenance shop management and jet fuel purchasing.

Essinta Labs, Inc. makes FBO Director in Port Orange, Florida. The team introduced its first aviation software program for small clubs and partners in 1992. The team has built FBO software for over twenty years. The first FBO went live with FBO Director in January 2017, paperless on the ramp from day one. It states it is a true web application on a multi-tenant database and works on any platform. A patent application, Real Time FBO Management and System, was filed in 2005.

What FBO Director does

Invoicing and front desk

FBO Director handles counter sales and invoicing. It states a sale takes three steps instead of 20. Staff can keep a card on file by tail number or customer code. The system supports a digital signature at the counter.

Fuel management

The fuel module tracks sales and inventory by tail number and supports into-plane fees.

• Fuel company credit card processing and contract fuel support
• Fuel inventory tracking
• Imports from Veeder-Root, TCS and Fuel Meter Cloud
• Handles self-serve terminal transactions from QT Pod and Fuel Master
• Reports by customer and tail number
• Export fuel reports to Excel

Discounts, cards and taxes

Pricing can be set per customer with retail minus a unit or percentage, or cost plus a unit or percentage. It supports tiered quantity discounts for each customer. Contract fuel is supported for EPIC Aviation, Avfuel, Titan and others. It works with EPIC, Shell and Avfuel cards. The tax engine handles tax on a tax and exempt taxes for complex states. Into-plane transactions can change product codes, taxes and invoice build based on the card used.

Billing for hangars and tie-downs

FBO Director supports periodic billing for monthly hangar, office and tie-down charges. A make and model fee schedule lets hangar and ramp prices be set by aircraft make and model, and priced by tail number.

Accounting exports

• QuickBooks Online
• QuickBooks Desktop via IIF format with transaction detail
• Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains
• Sage
• Any CSV format

Flight school and work orders

The system includes flight school dispatch and maintenance work orders. A separate flight school scheduling add-on is sold at ScheduleFlight.com.

Works with other systems (FlightBridge etc.)

• Concierge and FlightBridge link, offered for US$50 a month on Starter, Basic and Business plans
• QuickBooks Online and Great Plains
• Avtrip, Shell Aeroclass and EPIC Bravo
• It will import data if you ran FBO Manager or TotalFBO
• It states it adds work orders, flight school and a link to FlightBridge compared with other FBO systems

Plans (per month)

• Lite: US$149 plus US$0.20 per transaction
• Starter: US$349
• Basic: US$489
• Business: US$589
• Ultimate: US$689

Contact

Email: info@essinta.com