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How Payments Makes Online Travel Sites Worth The Trip

July 03, 2017
It’s the peak travel season, and online travel sites have a number of pressures to manage: the economy, airline strikes, keeping up with the latest in tech and even the weather (Phoenix, we’re looking at you!). That’s before, Paysafe says, the ever-shifting payments sands kick in: rising fraud, gaps between when a consumer books, when they take the trip and when the agent gets paid and accommodating the growing number of payments methods that consumers expect to see at checkout. Here are the five payments challenges that Paysafe says online travel sites need to overcome to make the journey worth the trip.