RateHawk, developed by Emerging Travel Group, is a service designed for professionals in the travel industry. This platform caters specifically to travel agencies, tour operators, and corporate clients, providing them with a solution for booking hotels, air tickets, and other travel services. Key Features Hotel Selection: RateHawk offers users access to over 2,900,000 hotels, guest houses, hostels, and apartments worldwide. Users can choose from a wide…
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Visa Acceptance Solutions (CyberSource)
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CyberSource, acquired by Visa in 2010 and now part of Visa Acceptance Solutions, is payment technology, and includes offerings with flexible payment solutions that work across the globe.
I would suggest RateHawk to other business owners who are concerned with their coverage and reliability in booking. It does not create unneeded complexity to facilitate growth.
For basic users it is probably a good fit. For connecting it's API's are straightforward and most would find it an easy connection to be made. The site overall is just not designed well. When you try to look at transactions a portion of the information is cut of without a scroll bar being added to slide to the fields you would like to see. If you need to see the data on the screen you need to make some adjustments.
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High quality back-office support for managing bookings and accessing important data
Wide geography for transfers: RateHawk offers transfers in over 149 countries and 1,100 cities and towns. This extensive coverage ensures that the travel agents can provide reliable transfer services to their clients almost anywhere in the world.
High Quality Service: RateHawk ensures that transfers drivers undergo a careful selection process and maintain high ratings. This commitment to quality helps ensure a positive experience for travelers.
Having all travel services managed under a single platform and billed in a single invoice.
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Paying for the service as well as fees for services of third party entities such as lodging, transportation, and activities depending on the type of client using the service.
May have a learning curve for new users due to its extensive features.
price transparency- it's hard to know exactly what you're being charged for. We are charged a small % of each incoming payment batch, so AR reconciliation is more difficult
implementation- significant time and expertise required to get everything up and running smoothly
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RateHawk is much more user friendly. Because of Vinet America’s Customization options to tailor the platform to a specific agency’s needs, the process could require an agency to have their own IT staff to complete this process, which could leave smaller agencies at a loss with their services.
Payeezy does not provide fraud check facility and they provide JS based integration. Since client wants server side integration due to security and fraud check as well in place of using another third party for fraud. We went ahead with Cybersource
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Time is saved in the process of keeping up with separate bills, bookings, and record keeping. This can mean the difference between closing a deal or losing it.
All costs are consolidated under one invoice and professionally recorded without paying your own staff or secretary salary to have this done.
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