Travel payments system
The end-to-end system of payment, reconciliation and reporting around travel bookings.
A travel payments system is the end-to-end combination of acquiring, gateway, reconciliation, settlement, protection and reporting infrastructure that sits around travel bookings. It is the system finance teams rely on to know what cash has been received, protected and committed, and what reporting evidence stands behind each number. A clean system answers operational and compliance questions from the same source.
felloh is the travel payments system built around the booking.
Card, open banking, MOTO, virtual terminal, payment links and embedded checkout — connected to ATOL, trust and audit evidence.
What it means for travel businesses.
Travel payments systems have to absorb deposits, balances, supplier payments, refunds, chargebacks, protected funds and reporting evidence against the same booking record. Without that single picture, finance teams burn time gluing exports together every month and exposure can hide in the gaps.
The hardest part of running a travel-payments system is keeping the cash story and the operational story in step over time. A booking takes a deposit in January, a balance in May, a supplier payment in June and a refund in August — and somewhere in the middle the customer cancels, the booking moves, the agent changes the price. Every one of those moves has to land cleanly on the same record or the picture quietly drifts away from reality.
When the system works, finance, operations, customer support and the board are all reading from the same source. When it does not, every question becomes a meeting. The visible work of a travel-payments system is reconciliation; the invisible work is making sure the same booking number means the same thing in every place it appears, even six months after travel.
How felloh handles it.
felloh is built as a connected travel-payments system — one booking-aware ledger that holds payments, settlement, protected funds, supplier obligations and reporting evidence in the same place.
The dashboard surfaces the booking-level finance picture across Bookings, Transactions, Settlement, Refunds, Chargebacks, Cashflow, Suppliers, Beneficiaries and Risk Analysis — each one reading from the same ledger. The pay checkout, the Payment Links workflow and the SDKs all write into the same record, so the operational story stays single regardless of channel.
For travel businesses moving from a patchwork of providers to a connected system, the difference shows up immediately. Finance closes faster, customer support answers questions from one record, and compliance evidence is part of the operational picture rather than a separate reporting layer.
Related terms.
Travel payment gateway
A payment gateway specifically built for the shapes of travel commerce.Read termGlossary termBack-office reconciliation
The process of matching payment activity, settlement and booking records so the finance picture is consistent.Read termGlossary termSettlement
The movement of processed payment funds into the merchant account or bank account.Read termGlossary termTrust account
An account where customer funds are held in trust until the underlying service is delivered.Read termGlossary termCompliance
The set of legal, regulatory and scheme rules a payment process has to follow.Read termSee how this works around your bookings.
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