Simplify Travel Payments with Pliant’s Virtual Purchasing Card
Pliant’s Travel Purchasing Card streamlines payments with instant card issuance and real-time expense tracking. Manage bookings, payments, and expenses effortlessly, all in one place. Get in touch today and discover how Pliant can help your travel business increase margins and operating capital, increasing efficiency as you do.
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Managing travel payments without dedicated solution leads to:
Multi-currency payment complexities
Managing global transactions in various currencies introduces high conversion fees, exchange rate volatility, and challenging reconciliations. Traditional payment methods often lead to inefficiencies, impacting cash flow and financial clarity.
Inefficiency in payment processing
Relying on manual processes to manage international travel payments is time-consuming and error-prone. These outdated methods limit visibility, delay approvals, and reduce agility, especially for teams dealing with frequent or last-minute bookings.
Disjointed expense consolidation
Consolidating expenses from multiple sources such as airlines, hotels, and other services can be overwhelming. Without a centralized system, reconciling transactions becomes time-consuming and error-prone.
How Pliant helps you overcome those issues:
Multi-currency accounts
Pliant’s multi-currency accounts enable seamless international transactions, reducing conversion fees and enhancing cash flow management. By automating currency exchanges and reconciliations, Pliant ensures faster, more accurate financial processing.
Streamlined travel bookings
Pliant’s Travel Purchasing Card streamlines booking with instant virtual card issuance tailored to each trip. Integrated with platforms like Voxel’s Bavel Pay and Conferma, we provide a globally accepted, automated payment solution that eliminates delays.
Real-time expense consolidation and reporting
Track, monitor, and consolidate travel expenses with real-time transaction monitoring and automated reporting. Pliant’s solution centralizes your expenses, providing comprehensive visibility.
A payment solution for merchants of record
We provide flexible credit lines to merchants of record that can be customized to fit specific needs: providing greater financial control during peak travel seasons. Our flexible repayment options mean that Pliant can be completely adapted to your business model.
| Traditional Solutions | Pliant | |
|---|---|---|
| Instant Card Issuance | no | yes |
| Integration with travel platforms | no | yes |
| Customizable Controls | no | yes |
| Multi Currency Prefund + Credit Line | Varies | yes |
| Global Acceptance | Varies | yes |
| Flexible Credit Options (incl High Credit Lines) | Limited | yes |
Plug it. Play it. Pay it. Meet Pliant Pro API.
Our easy-to-implement API enables you to:
Automate bulk processes for travel purchasing
Issue new virtual credit cards (VCCs) for each travel purchase, reducing risk and simplifying accounting workflows
Use your Pliant VCCs alongside your traditional bank or credit card provider
Pliant: made for your travel company
TMCs
Travel management companies (TMCs) are at the center of the business travel market: facilitating payments every day to airlines, hotels, car rental companies and more.
OTAs
Your online platform lives and breathes efficiency, and you need a platform that ensures full automation from day one. With Pliant, you can ensure seamless purchasing with VCCs, as well as a massive reduction of your payment support burden.
Tour operators
If you’re buying flights, hotel rooms and experiences in bulk, you need a payment solution that enables you to scale your operations effectively. Pliant’s flexible billing cycles mean that you plan for the long term with larger individual payments.
Bed banks
For bed banks, margins are the name of the game – and acquiring your inventory effectively is a huge step forward. Pliant’s payment platform for travel makes it simple to increase your margins with generous cashback offers on purchases.
FAQs
Although it’s sometimes used to describe a way for end users to purchase travel, we use the term “travel payment solution” to describe tools that enable companies within the travel industry to purchase inventory – such as flight tickets, hotel reservations and car rentals – from one another.
Travel companies use different payment methods, each varying in flexibility and efficiency. Some methods, such as IATA BSP, automate transactions and data exchange between agencies and airlines, although IATA charges a commission for those.
For non-IATA providers, manual invoicing and wire transfers are commonly used. However, these present challenges like slow processing times and high fees for international payments. Virtual Credit Cards (VCC), including those offered by the Pliant travel payment solution, offer more flexibility, allowing quick issuance and streamlining reconciliation processes.
Virtual Credit Cards (VCCs) provide significant advantages for travel companies. Firstly, they contribute to higher margins through cashback programs, enabling businesses to maximize returns on their expenditures.
Secondly, VCCs offer increased access to operating capital, thanks to high credit limits and flexible repayment options offered by the Pliant travel payment solution.
Additionally, the potential for automation is enhanced with tools like Pliant Pro API, streamlining processes and reducing manual effort, ultimately improving operational efficiency for travel companies.
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