payment processing
youtip Vying for ‘Most Innovative Startup of the Year’ at Phocuswright Event
youtip | November 10, 2021
Contactless and cashless digital tipping platform recognized by analysts as an “innovation poised for major breakouts in the next year and beyond”; youtip is one of eight companies nominated for the top honor, along with a chance to be named the ‘People's Choice’ Chicago, IL — November 10, 2021 —When it comes to technology innovation, few companies are disrupting the travel and hospitality industries like youtip, the simplest, fastest, app free digital tipping solution. Next week at The Phocuswright Conference, youtip Co-Founder and CEO Doug Miles will present the enterprise system for digital gratuity to a panel of judges or ...
HotelKey and SoCal’s Lexen Hotels Partner to Optimize Operational Efficiencies and Reduce the Cost of Ownership
HotelKey | September 23, 2021
As Hoteliers Look for Every Edge, Lexen Hotel North Hollywood and Hotel Lexen Newhall Reap the Benefits of HotelKey’s Single Stack Tech Solution DALLAS, September 23, 2021 – As hoteliers fight to control expenses and maximize efficiencies in a time of spiraling costs, the Lexen Hotel North Hollywood and Hotel Lexen Newhall have partnered with HotelKey to drive unprecedented property performance and reduce costs through a single seamless property management solution. HotelKey is the hotel industry’s leading fully integrated cloud-based Property Management System. “HotelKey has proven to be an invaluable and irreplaceable partne...
b4checkin Announces Peter J. Rogers, Jr. as Chief Executive Officer, Founder Saar Fabrikant Appointed as President
b4checkin | June 17, 2021
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA (June 17, 2021): b4checkin, Ltd. has appointed its current Chairman of the Board, Peter J. Rogers, Jr., as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Saar Fabrikant, the Company’s co-founder, who previously acted in both the CEO and President roles, has been appointed as President. Mr. Fabrikant will direct product development & strategic sales, as b4checkin drives to meet the expanding technology needs of a post-pandemic hospitality industry. Mr. Fabrikant co-founded b4checkin in 2006 with Chief Financial Officer and co-founder Martin MacKinnon. Using his education in software programming, he managed development for...
Onyx CenterSource Expands Partnership With Preferred Hotels & Resorts
Onyx CenterSource | April 20, 2021
DALLAS (April 20, 2021) — Onyx CenterSource, a leading global provider of B2B payments and business intelligence to the hospitality industry, today announced that it has joined the Preferred Hotels & Resorts Alliance Partner Program. Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest provider of sales, marketing and distribution services to independent luxury hotels, has been an Onyx client for more than 10 years, having designated the Onyx CommPay service as a Preferred ProTool for its member hotels to facilitate the payment of commissions from hotels to travel agents. “Onyx enjoys a close relationship with Preferred Hotels ...
Digital Tipping: Meet the Need for Speed by Avoiding the App Store
Doug Miles | February 16, 2021
Downloading an app to tip hotel staff is too inconvenient for guests on the go By Doug Miles Did you know “if people pay with a credit card, (workers) will be tipped more?” That’s what tipping expert Michael Lynn said in a recent article titled: “Tipping do’s and don’ts: When and how much to tip in every situation.” Lynn is a Burton M. Sack Professor in Food & Beverage Management at the Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, and he is a nationally recognized expert on tipping with 70+ research publications written on the topic. Did you also know that 25% of users abandon apps after a single use? Whi...
BirchStreet Systems Partners With Industry Leader Highgate on Payment Processing Solution
BirchStreet Systems | October 20, 2020
NEWPORT BEACH, California – BirchStreet Systems, the market leader in procure-to-pay software for the hospitality industry, announces it has partnered with Highgate, a leading real estate investment and hospitality management company. Through this new partnership, BirchStreet will deliver its state-of-the-art payment solution to 160 Highgate hotels worldwide. “BirchStreet’s domain expertise in both payments and hospitality procurement gave us the confidence to select them as our partner to help streamline and automate our payment processes,” said Joseph Klam, Chief Accounting Officer at Highgate. “The ease of use and fast deploym...
Going Cashless Without Phone Transactions
Larry Mogelonsky | July 15, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) The physical distancing and work-from-home orders put in place have brought to light numerous inefficiencies in how we manage hotel operations. These will all need to be addressed as we open our doors while keeping a leaner team, and today’s pain point relates to automating credit card transactions taken over the phone. Namely, still accepting this information via phone is an ineffective use of your front desk’s time while it also isn’t fully PCI compliant and creates a jumble of paper-based work for your accounting team which needs to post everything to the proper ledger. Plu...
Making Painful Chargebacks a Thing of the Past
Larry Mogelonsky | April 22, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) In a socially distanced world, one thing we are already seeing is far fewer in-person credit card transactions because people aren’t out and about nearly as much. A lot of that traffic has moved online while some of it has shifted towards other types of less secure, card-not-present dealings like taking down a guest’s information over the phone. During this downtime we all find ourselves in, now is your chance to implement the necessary updates to ensure your payment channels are as secure as possible, while also reducing chargebacks wherein the credit card companies usually don...
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