Modulr partners with Paxport to transform travel industry payments

London, UK. 12th February 2019: Modulr, the Payments-as-a-Service API platform for digital businesses, and Paxport, the Travel Technology and Services giant have today announced a partnership to provide a new flexible payment solution for online travel agencies (OTAs) and tour operators.

Paxport connects providers and sales channels through its automated merchandising and distribution system for the travel industry. By partnering with Modulr, the company will be able to offer 24/7, real-time payments to its customers and provide tour operators and travel agents with a wider choice of payment options.

Modulr’s digital payment accounts will enhance Paxport’s new payment service, Pax2Pay, by enabling customers to pay out using multiple payment methods and currencies, including virtual cards, Faster Payments, SEPA, with more coming soon.

Pax2Pay will also help to reduce administrative costs for the OTAs and tour operators by centralising reconciliation – reducing the complexity of manually moving payments back and forth between multiple payment service providers. It will enable Paxport to offer an improved service to the 80+ airlines and 250+ resellers that use its system every day.

“Payments should be simple – they’re the lifeblood of any business,” said Tony Barker, CEO at Paxport. “Each year we process over £300m of travel commerce transactions and it’s important we remain at the forefront of faster, easier and more reliable payments by partnering with a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)-regulated payments provider that is innovating on the back of recent regulatory changes, such as PSD2. The travel industry is extremely competitive, and we have to ensure we’re constantly improving the level of service to our global clients.

“Modulr is not burdened by legacy systems, meaning we receive a range of benefits that other financial technology companies simply cannot provide in one place. Integrating its API into our search and booking software will enable us to provide an experience that is flexible, easy to manage, and saves significant expenditure.”

Myles Stephenson, CEO at Modulr, stated: “The world-travel industry generates $1.4 trillion in revenue annually[i]. However, the movement of money between the different travel companies is far from smooth. Airlines, hotels and OTAs are having to juggle multiple payment service providers – making reconciliation time consuming and cumbersome.

“Our quick, easy and secure digital payment services will help Paxport to improve their customer experience by offering a choice of real-time payment methods; all in one place, available 24×7, 365 days of the year.”

-ENDS-

About Modulr 

Modulr is the Payments-as-a-Service API for digital businesses. Built around a new type of payment account, Modulr replaces bank accounts for payments. Modulr accounts come with sort codes, access to payment schemes and everything you’d expect. But they’re faster, easier and more reliable. Our API integrates into any platform or system. Businesses can instantly open as many accounts as they need, automate how they get paid, reconcile and make payments, all in real-time, 24/7.

Modulr automates pay out, simplifies pay in and delivers new services for businesses across travel, lending, payments fintech, employment services, software provision and more.

For further information – please visit www.modulrfinance.com.

Modulr Finance Limited, a company registered in England with company number 09897957 and ICO Registration: ZA183068, is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as an EMD Agent of Modulr FS Limited. Modulr FS Limited is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as an Electronic Money Institution (Firm Reference Number: 900573).

About Paxport

Our mission is to create and manage a travel retail market place, connecting our clients and their passengers. Our plug-and-play concept with a variable cost business model is the modern way for companies to supply services to carriers. By using best practice merchandising techniques through the entire passenger journey, we are able to increase ancillary services conversion rates and revenues significantly. As an IATA NDC Level 3 Partner, Paxport is proud to be driving the adoption of the new NDC standard and helping airline clients and travel agencies to take advantage of the emerging new market for travel retail.

https://www.paxport.net/