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Barclays ePDQ Service is Retiring: A 4-Step Guide for Travel Merchants
Barclaycard will withdraw ePDQ by March 2026. Learn how this impacts travel businesses taking payments online, over the phone, or via payment links, and how to find the right alternative.
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Everything travel businesses need to know about chargebacks
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Everything travel businesses need to know about chargebacks
Running a travel business is challenging enough without having to deal with chargebacks eating into your profits and taking up valuable time. This FREE practical guide covers 5 proven strategies on how to avoid them.
Everything travel businesses need to know about chargebacks
Running a travel business is challenging enough without having to deal with chargebacks eating into your profits and taking up valuable time. This FREE practical guide covers 5 proven strategies on how to avoid them.
We love sharing our travel expertise, so we're always creating new resources to help travel businesses succeed.
Free guide
Everything travel businesses need to know about chargebacks
Running a travel business is challenging enough without having to deal with chargebacks eating into your profits and taking up valuable time. This FREE practical guide covers 5 proven strategies on how to avoid them.
Free guide
Everything travel businesses need to know about chargebacks
Running a travel business is challenging enough without having to deal with chargebacks eating into your profits and taking up valuable time. This FREE practical guide covers 5 proven strategies on how to avoid them.
Free guide
Everything travel businesses need to know about chargebacks
Running a travel business is challenging enough without having to deal with chargebacks eating into your profits and taking up valuable time. This FREE practical guide covers 5 proven strategies on how to avoid them.
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Caroline Rennie
Felloh's innovative new tool provides real-time insights on declines, suggesting the best next steps for businesses and customers, all while ensuring that sensitive data remains secure. Here's a closer look at how Felloh’s AI Decline Analysis can transform your approach to managing customer payments.
Enhance Your Payment Success with Felloh's AI Decline Analysis for the Travel Industry
What to do next?
1
Automate your manual tasks with AI-powered Software as a Service
You don’t need in-house AI tools to do this, most software providers will be doing the heavy lifting for you
2
Step up your SEO and AI Optimisation (AIO) strategy
Make sure your experiences are easily discoverable in consumer-generated itineraries. If you’ve invested in search engine optimisation (SEO) in the past, a lot of that work will be paying off now, but if not, it’s never too late to tag your images, set meta descriptions and make sure your most important content is machine readable.
3
Experiment cautiously with customer facing AI tools
If you’re not yet using any AI in your business, now is not the time to rip out your search function on your website and replace it with an AI chat bot! As an end consumer you probably know how frustrating it can be to deal with a poorly trained bot. Instead, find a problem you have which is worth solving but not business critical to start learning in a low-risk environment.
Enhance Your Payment Success with Felloh's AI Decline Analysis for the Travel Industry
Enhance Your Payment Success with Felloh's AI Decline Analysis for the Travel Industry
Updates
Caroline Rennie
In the travel industry, maintaining a smooth and reliable payment process is essential to ensuring customer satisfaction and maximising revenue. However, payment declines can be a frustrating interruption, leading to missed sales opportunities and increased operational costs. To address these challenges, Felloh has introduced a powerful new featureAI Decline Analysisto help travel finance professionals understand why transactions fail and improve acceptance rates for card payments.
This innovative tool provides real-time insights on declines, suggesting the best next steps for businesses and customers, all while ensuring that sensitive data remains secure. Here's a closer look at how Felloh’s AI Decline Analysis can transform your approach to managing customer payments.
What is Felloh's AI Decline Analysis?
AI Decline Analysis leverages Felloh’s extensive payment data to provide actionable insights when a card transaction is declined. By analyzing the decline reasons and combining this information with hundreds of thousands of anonymized transaction data points, the tool can suggest specific actions to increase the likelihood of payment success. For finance professionals, this means access to data-driven recommendations, tailored to each transaction, that allow you to respond swiftly and effectively.
As The Travel Network Group notes, "The new AI feature provides a more detailed analysis surrounding the reasons for a declined payment, as well as suggestions to rectify this. This is very useful on our calls when supporting Members with instant comprehensive information."
How Does AI Decline Analysis Work?
When a payment decline occurs, Felloh’s AI collects and analyses data around the transaction to suggest tailored recommendations for resolution. Here’s a step-by-step look at how it works:
1 Real-Time Data Collection
AI Decline Analysis compiles information from the transaction, including details about the decline reason.
2 Data-Driven Suggestions
The tool uses insights from a vast pool of anonymized data to recommend the next best action. These suggestions are customised to provide the best chance of turning a decline into a successful transaction.
3 Privacy-First Design
All Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is removed from the analysis to prioritise user privacy while still offering insights that can optimise payment outcomes.
Key Benefits of Felloh’s AI Decline Analysis for Travel Finance Professionals
1 Improve Payment Completion Rates
The AI decline analysis is fueled by data from thousands of transactions, ensuring that recommendations are based on patterns across the industry. With AI guiding responses to declines, you can boost payment acceptance rates, reducing friction for your customers while increasing your business’s bottom line.
2 Next-Best Action Recommendations
Whether it’s suggesting an alternative payment method or prompting a retry with an updated card, Felloh’s AI Decline Analysis offers the best next step for your team and customers to follow. This targeted guidance saves time and minimizes customer frustration, creating a smoother experience for everyone involved.
3 Enhanced Fraud Protection
Felloh’s AI goes beyond simple decline codes, utilizing comprehensive data to identify potentially suspicious activities and protect against fraud. By recognizing unusual patterns and recommending safe actions, the tool not only supports payment success but also safeguards your business and customers.
Why AI Decline Analysis Matters for the Travel Industry
For travel businesses, payment declines can mean more than just a loss in revenue. They impact customer trust, loyalty, and the reputation of your brand. With the support of Felloh's AI-driven decline analysis, finance professionals can now prevent issues before they escalate. Real-time insights and next-step recommendations allow for fast, data-backed decisions to keep transactions flowing.
The Travel Network Group’s endorsement highlights the feature’s immediate impact on call efficiency and support quality: "The AI feature allows our Members to obtain a timely response and resolution, without the need to call the support team." This kind of support translates directly to more seamless customer interactions and higher customer satisfaction across the board.
Managing Customer Payments with Confidence
Felloh's AI Decline Analysis empowers finance teams to take control of their payment processes by addressing declines proactively and confidently. The tool’s robust data analysis, privacy assurances, and targeted recommendations make it an invaluable asset in maintaining a smooth and secure payment experience.
Whether you’re dealing with a high volume of transactions or navigating the complexities of global payment networks, AI Decline Analysis is designed to support your success every step of the way.
Ready to Boost Your Payment Success?
If you're ready to reduce payment friction, increase acceptance rates, and improve customer satisfaction, Felloh’s AI Decline Analysis is the tool you need. By transforming the way you manage declined payments, this new feature helps your business stay agile, efficient, and responsive in today’s competitive travel landscape. Embrace the power of data with Felloh, and ensure your payments go through smoothly, every time.