Does every booking create a tour?

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.