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Maestro PMS Enables Secure Online Payments With Integration to TransForm by b4
Maestro | June 22, 2023
Joint solution helping hotel operators to prevent fraud and mitigate losses; Visit Maestro PMS in Booth 1225 and b4 at Booth 1232 at HITEC Toronto June 26 to 29 MARKHAM, Ontario, and HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 22, 2023 — Maestro PMS is making hotel payments easier than ever, thanks to the recent integration with b4’s online payment platform, TransForm. TransForm helps hotels fight fraud and win more chargebacks by ensuring raw credit card data stays hidden from everyone except the cardholder. By passing encrypted credit card data directly into the correct Maestro PMS ledger, hoteliers and their customers benefit from a process that...
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...
PSD2 IN REAL LIFE: How The New Payment Service Directive Works for Hotels and Online Bookings
Shlomit Kugler | CEO, MyCheck | September 12, 2019
By Shlomit Kugler PSD2 IS OLD NEWS By now, you've likely heard about the new credit card payment service directive and its potential repercussions in our industry. What you may not know, however, is that PSD2 is nothing new in fact, it was first implemented back in 2015, even though not all its parts were enacted simultaneously. Strong Customer Authentication, particularly, was meant to come into force only on September 14th, 2019, four years after the approval of the directive. So, you'd imagine the industry to be ready, wouldn't you? Well, not quite... KNOWLEDGE, POSSESSION, AND INHERENCE So, what is PSD2? At its core, it is merely an ...
