Amadeus Premium Card Acceptance

Amadeus Premium Card Acceptance The right payment method for every sale, in every channel, worldwide

Amadeus Premium Card Acceptance Overview

Amadeus Premium Card Acceptance is an ideal solution for those airlines wanting to increase security for all direct and online payments, as well as accepting multiple forms of payments including local card schemes for all points of sale and channels, worldwide.

Amadeus Premium Card Acceptance provides a complete multi-channel solution including the latest industry standards for online payments.

Main features

Global solution
  • Multiple links either directly to financial institutions or through 3rd parties
  • Acceptance of local payment methods in all appropriate channels
  • Supports the latest industry standards for online payments
  • Enables you to customise your portfolio of payment methods
Payment integration
  • Enhanced integration of more payment methods in the selling process
  • Single point of integration for all points of sale and channels, worldwide
  • Sales reporting enriched with payment information
  • Fully integrated with Altéa Reservation, Amadeus e-Commerce as well as the Amadeus GDS
Fraud prevention
  • Developed in compliance with payment industry standards and regulations
  • Enhanced AVS / Security id, 3DSecure and fraud screening
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Business impact

  • Increased Revenue

    Deeper market penetration by offering more methods of payment (local debit and credit cards)

  • Enhanced Productivity

    Seamless integration of payment acceptance in the ATO/CTO

    Reduce back office processing thanks to enriched reporting

  • Customer satisfaction

    Give the customer a wider choice of payment methods, allowing them to chose the one that suits them best

  • Reduced costs

    Enable reduction of the Merchant Service Charge that the bank charges the airline

    Reduce fraud through advanced fraud screening techniques and enable liability shift to banks via 3D Secure

    Improves airlines negotiation position versus banks by allowing them flexibility to change acquirers

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Who can use it?

All airlines can use Amadeus Premium Card Acceptance.

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Why take it?

  • Increased security for online sales
  • Accept local forms of payment
  • Fully global payment solution
  • Full multi-channel solution
  • Reduce credit card fraud with real-time and reliable security checks
  • Transfer the credit liability to the card issuing bank
  • Enable reduced bank interchange fees
  • Use the most sophisticated credit card payment security practices
  • Take advantage of Amadeus' existing connections with main acquiring banks
  • One single provider for your credit card acceptance solutions across all your channels
  • Seamless and faster integration with Amadeus e-Retail and Amadeus Reservation Desktop
  • Eliminate the need to consolidate payment and sales information from multiple sources
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