SITA African Airline Conference: Travel and Tourism Internet Payment Solutions
PayGate payment gateway MD Peter Harvey was guest speaker at the recent SITA conference. He spoke to the African airlines at the SITA conference about how internet payment solutions can be most effectively implemented for online bookings for airlines and particularly how to combat the exponential increase in fraud and risk that has caused significant losses and contributed to the bankruptcy of some airlines recently. As a payment gateway PayGate internet payment gateway has been processing for over 10 years and have built processing solutions that are solid and offer merchants more effective, simple and easy to use ways to get paid by their customers. Year ending 2007 PayGate processed credit cards online in excess of $1.5billion
PayGate's solid processing, variety of ways to get paid, and fraud and risk expertise is resulting in a number of airlines starting to process with PayGate. They are successfully processing internet credit card bookings and online payment solutions for the following airlines: Air Namibia, American Airlines and Iberia and a further 6 airlines are in various stages of negotiation and finalisation. SITA is currently integrating to PayGate in order to provide Airlines (specifically in Africa) with a credit card gateway experienced in acquiring to African banks. Subject to the merchant qualifying for a facility (which PayGate will assist with), PayGate can process in the major foreign currencies and is rolling out internet facilities to a number of African countries so they will be able to process in local currency as well.
As regards other internet and online payment solutions, PayGate can process online payment by cellphone for FNB clients and has other South African and international payment solutions such as Poli, Ukash and Mobux in process of development and implementation. PayGate can offer the client alternative choices of payment solution at the time of purchase ie local or foreign. These payment options are built into the PayGate interface and require little or no additional development by the merchant. It's also as easy as "tick the box" for the traveller
PayGate has a number of products you can use together to support your online booking payment solution at no extra cost: PayPoint, PayBatch, PayWeb, PayXML, PaySubs, PayBill. PayGate payment gateway is a very conservative financial service provider which is the perfectly suited to reliably handle the high volumes and combat the financial risks which can make or break an airline. PayGate can process 3D or non-3D transactions by using a combination of fraud and risk screening solutions.
PayGate prides itself on its excellent support record by a qualified and experienced management and support team with more than 20 years experience and management of projects up to R20m
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Date Created: 2008-07-13 |
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