Recurring billing is the practice of taking payment from the same customer on a repeated schedule, using a tokenised card, mandate or stored account. It supports subscription products, instalment plans, membership fees and ongoing supplier arrangements. The merchant has to handle schedule, retry and authentication exemption rules correctly to keep the schedule running cleanly.
Travel payments glossary
Recurring billing
Taking a payment from the same customer on a repeated schedule.
Why it matters in travel
Recurring billing in travel covers instalment plans across the booking window, club and membership schemes, and ongoing trade-account arrangements with suppliers and agencies. A schedule that fails silently is a balance that lands manually on someone’s desk.
Recurring billing in travel is judged on the moments when it fails, not the moments when it succeeds. A balance instalment that fails three months before departure is recoverable; one that fails three days before is a customer-experience problem and a supplier-payment problem at the same time. The retry logic and escalation matter as much as the initial capture logic.
The travel businesses that run recurring billing well use network tokens to keep cards current, surface failures the moment they happen, and escalate cleanly when retries are exhausted. The businesses that rely on the initial card number without refresh and discover at the supplier deadline that the schedule lapsed weeks earlier.
How felloh helps
felloh holds the schedule, tokens and authentication evidence to run recurring billing reliably, with failures surfaced as booking-level exceptions rather than buried in error logs.
Where this shows up in payment collection.
Recurring billing touches more than one workflow at felloh. Start with the pages most travel teams reach for next.
- Payment Collection
Card, open banking, payment links, deposits and instalments — captured against the booking.
Explore - Payment Links
Shareable, authenticated payment links so customers pay against a specific booking without keying card details.
Explore - Embedded Checkout
Booking-aware checkout that keeps card data out of your systems and the payment trail tied to the booking.
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