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). [...]
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.
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 [...]
Contact us to check if your booking or reservation system is integrated to TXA. If your system is not integrated to TXA then you may need to make a decision as to whether you want to stay with it or not. That is completely up to you.
This is the exact problem that TXA has been designed to fix. It enables you to sell your business through the maximum number of distribution channels without having to allocate rooms. The Exchange has multiple distribution channels to sell your product including major distribution channels. The Exchange allows you (if you choose) to sell your 'live' inventory [...]
TXA can easily work alongside it and save you time and effort.
The Exchange was designed specifically for SME operators and is incredibly simple to use. It is easily managed by even the most novice computer users. We also provide very advanced Helpdesk support, free of charge, to talk you through step-by-step any technical issues you may ever encounter.