Payment Gateway for Hotels

We mentioned this a few weeks ago, one solution to enhance the payment experience for international cardholders and boost your revenue is Dynamic Currency Conversion. This solution allows tourists to pay in their own currency, providing transparency and better control over their budget during their stay abroad. By offering this solution, merchants can earn a commission on each transaction made with DCC, providing additional income that boosts their revenue. Tourists are arriving massively:  

• in France with 15 million tourists expected for the Olympics,  

• or in Germany with 1.5 million additional overnight stays during the Euro football championship.  

DCC is a solution that hotels can also offer to their guests.

Speaking of hotels, another solution significantly enhances the traveler experience, the Payment Gateway. This system allows hotels to centralize all payment flows through a single portal, greatly improving reconciliation. Whether it's bookings via Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com), Mail Order Telephone Order (MOTO) bookings, bookings through physical agencies, or via the hotel's own website, all transactions come through the same flow, enabling better management for the operations teams.

Improving these aspects of hotel management frees up time for staff to engage more closely with visitors, an aspect that will be greatly appreciated by the latter during the Paris Olympic Games to enhance their experience. Operations teams can also dedicate more time to other tasks, as reconciliation processes that used to be time-consuming and manual, with potential errors, are now fully automated, freeing up time for other missions. 

In addition to easier reconciliation, data security is also enhanced thanks to PCI-DSS compliance. This standard secures card data, protecting both travelers and hotels from potential data breaches. Whenever a booking or transaction is made, the data is tokenized, making it unreadable and unusable for hackers. 

Security and automated reconciliation are not the only features available. With the Payment Gateway, hospitality groups can address numerous use cases to handle various situations. For example, during check-in, card tokenization allows for capturing a token of the tourist's card. This token can then be used to cover any additional expenses later without the tourist needing to return to the reception to provide their card again. This improves the traveler experience and prevents guests from leaving without completing the checkout process, whether intentionally or not.