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title: "Does every booking create a tour?"
description: "What a submitted booking creates depends on the booking form — and why a booking with no tour is normal."
url: "https://support.pr-4.orbit.do/en/faq/does-every-booking-create-a-tour"
locale: "en"
lastReviewed: "2026-07-10"
---

# Does every booking create a tour?

What a submitted booking creates depends on the booking form — and why a booking with no tour is normal.

> **Note:** No. What a submitted booking creates — an `Order`, `Shipments`, and/or a `Tour` — depends on the booking form you used. Some bookings deliberately produce no `Tour` yet, and that is a configuration choice, not a fault.

Every booking form in Orbit MissionControl is built from a `TransportShape`, and each shape has an **Outputs** setting that lists exactly which records a submitted booking creates: `Order`, `Shipment`, and optionally `Tour`.

Because of that, the same action — submitting a booking — can produce different results depending on the form behind it:

* A form that outputs all three creates a ready-to-dispatch `Tour` the moment you submit.
* A form that outputs only a `Shipment` creates a single `Shipment` that starts `Unrouted` — no `Tour` yet — waiting for you to plan it onto a route later.
* A form might even produce just an `Order` and a `Shipment`, with no execution plan at all.

So a booking that shows no `Tour` is usually working exactly as configured. If you expected one and don't see it, check which booking form was used, or plan the `Shipment` onto a `Tour` yourself.

## Example

A dispatcher at Spaceport Shipping Co. in Madrid uses two booking forms. The "Same-day courier" form outputs an `Order`, `Shipment`, and `Tour`, so a submitted booking is instantly ready to dispatch. The "Warehouse intake" form outputs only a `Shipment`; those arrive `Unrouted` and are grouped into `Tours` during the afternoon planning round.