Hosted payment page
A payment page hosted by the payment provider rather than embedded in the merchant’s site.
A hosted payment page is a payment page hosted by the payment provider — branded for the merchant but served from the provider’s infrastructure — rather than embedded directly in the merchant’s own site. The customer is redirected from the merchant site to enter card details on the hosted page and then back again once the payment is complete. The model keeps card data out of the merchant’s systems and reduces PCI DSS scope considerably.
felloh hosts the payment journey, inside your brand.
Embedded checkout drops the felloh payment flow into your booking page — your customer stays in your brand, the booking-level evidence comes back to you.
What it means for travel businesses.
Hosted payment pages are popular in travel because they minimise PCI scope and let the same payment provider be used across multiple booking platforms and brands without bespoke integration work. The trade-off is a slightly less integrated UX than a fully embedded checkout.
For a multi-brand travel group, the hosted page is the practical answer to "how do we accept the same way across five booking systems without owning PCI scope on any of them?" The page sits at the same domain pattern, the styling carries the brand, and the underlying integration is one acquirer connection rather than five. The operations team gets one set of behaviours to learn rather than five.
The cost of a hosted page is the UX gap at the redirect moment. Customers see the domain change, the layout subtly shift, the back button stop working as expected. The travel businesses that mitigate this match the hosted page to the brand carefully and instrument the journey on both sides of the redirect; those that do not see drop-off at the moment of redirection and rarely know why.
How felloh handles it.
felloh’s hosted pages keep the customer experience aligned to the booking, with the same booking-level evidence available regardless of which channel the payment came through.
The pay checkout serves hosted payment pages that carry the brand and the booking reference, with card data tokenised behind the scenes. The dashboard’s Transactions view records every captured payment against the booking it originated from, so finance, support and operations all read from the same record.
For travel groups running multiple brands and booking systems behind one payment provider, the hosted page is the unifier. PCI scope stays narrow, brand experience stays consistent, and the operational view stays single — without bespoke integration per brand.
Related terms.
Payment gateway
The technology layer that connects a merchant to the acquirer and processor.Read termGlossary termPayment link
A shareable link that lets a customer make a payment for a specific amount and purpose.Read termGlossary termPCI DSS compliance
A security standard for any organisation that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data.Read termGlossary termTokenisation
Replacing card data with a non-sensitive token that can be used in its place.Read termGlossary termTravel payment gateway
A payment gateway specifically built for the shapes of travel commerce.Read termSee how this works around your bookings.
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