credit card transactions
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...
Making Painful Chargebacks a Thing of the Past
Larry Mogelonsky | April 22, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) In a socially distanced world, one thing we are already seeing is far fewer in-person credit card transactions because people aren’t out and about nearly as much. A lot of that traffic has moved online while some of it has shifted towards other types of less secure, card-not-present dealings like taking down a guest’s information over the phone. During this downtime we all find ourselves in, now is your chance to implement the necessary updates to ensure your payment channels are as secure as possible, while also reducing chargebacks wherein the credit card companies usually don...
