Yes. These are what is termed Online Travel Agents (OTAs) available for you to connect to via TXA. These are typically distributors that take payment and manage the customer. TXA automatically delivers your rates and availability to OTAs and places OTA bookings back into your booking system.
In travel, there are still many online booking systems and channel managers using one of the following payment methods; A simple email form where the buyer sends the credit card details in an email directly or via a web form to the operator. Who then has to manually process payment using their EFTPOS as if [...]
A payment gateway is the technology that actually processes and passes the payment securely and seamlessly into your bank account. Payment gateways must be approved and authorised to operate on the basis of very strict security criteria.
A small fee charged by our gateway to protect you against card fraud and to absolutely securely process the customer’s credit card payment automatically and directly into the operator’s bank account. Customers credit card details are not captured, stored held or ‘passed on’ the way channel managers work (which is highly risky and potentially illegal). [...]
Online payment facilities have a merchant transaction fee set by the card issuer. Card transaction fees apply whether if you accept payment by card whether processed using EFTPOS or online payment facility. Online payment facility is typically less expensive than EFTPOS because you don’t have to rent a terminal.
Yes, the third party payment gateways we use, Stripe and Payrix, process the funds on your behalf and then direct credit the booking funds less their fees directly to your bank account.
You can receive the money into your bank account at the time the booking is made*. Any booking fees and/or distributor commissions are automatically settled in the following month. *Direct to provider distributors
Pay only 2.8%* booking fee for guaranteed bookings. No sale, no fee! Therefore it’s totally risk-free. *Excludes GST
The beauty of the Exchange is that you’re provided with all of your clients' contact details via the instant confirmation email. They are your client and you can contact them at any point to make special arrangements and personalise their stay. It still allows you to have contact with your customers who contact you as [...]
There is an SMS service that can notify you of any online bookings received. Availability is automatically updated. If you are away from the office when you receive an 'offline' phone enquiry, you can use any internet connection, including a smartphone, to check your availability via your My Booking Pages, and close-out the room until you can enter your [...]