Authorisations, incidentals and folio settlement without the fee surprise
Incremental authorisations, no-show billing and card-not-present downgrades on remote bookings.
Lodging transactions downgrade to higher interchange when authorisation and folio data are not passed correctly.
Illustrative profile, not an industry benchmark. Yours will differ — that is the point of the analysis.
Built around how hotels, motels and short-term rentals actually take payments
Not a generic bundle with your industry's name pasted on the invoice.
- Lodging-specific interchange qualification and auth handling
- PMS and channel-manager integrations
- Pre-auth for incidentals with clean release
- Tokenised guest profiles across stays
- Chargeback defence built for hospitality disputes
Need capital as well? See lodging & hospitality business funding from CELER Funding.
The fee traps we look for in hotels, motels and short-term rentals
- Downgrades — transactions falling out of their best interchange category through missing data
- Padded pass-throughs — card-brand fees marked up and presented as cost
- Junk monthlies — statement, PCI, annual, regulatory and "service" fees
- Equipment leases — non-cancellable terms that outlive the hardware
- Tier reclassification — the same sale quietly repriced into a worse bucket
Lodging & Hospitality payment processing, answered
It depends on your card mix, average ticket, volume and pricing model. Lodging transactions downgrade to higher interchange when authorisation and folio data are not passed correctly. The only way to know your real number is to divide total fees by total volume on your statement — or send it to us and we will label every line, usually within 4 hours.
There is no single best system. We match hardware to how you actually take payments: ticket size, staff count, whether you sell online, and which software you already run. For hotels, motels and short-term rentals we most often deploy lodging-specific interchange qualification and auth handling.
Yes. We stage the new account, program hardware before it ships, and cut over outside your busiest hours. Most hotels, motels and short-term rentals switch with zero closed minutes.
Yes. We support merchants in all 50 US states and every Canadian province, with pricing, funding timelines and compliance handled per country.
Local support across Canada and the United States
Every fee named, usually within 4 hours. Or call now and we quote you on the spot.
Everyone else in this industry says twenty-four hours. We say four — and if that is still too slow, pick up the phone and get your numbers while you are on the call. No contract, nothing to cancel, no pressure.