Bookings
Travel across every border
A traveller in one country books a room in another and pays in a third currency. Cards decline, conversion fees hide in the rate, and the money reaches you days after the guest has checked out.
The problem
What the card rail costs you here
Cross border declines
Issuers are twitchy about a foreign merchant in a travel category. A decline at the booking step is a guest who books with the platform instead of with you.
Currency conversion nobody chose
The guest pays in their currency, the card converts at its rate, you receive yours. Two or three percent evaporates and both sides think the other got it.
Slow money, fast refunds
Card settlement takes days, but a cancellation refund is expected at once and carries a fee. Cash flow runs backwards.
How Plutus fits
What we switch on for you
The product is the same underneath. These are the pieces that matter in travel, in the order most merchants adopt them.
Payment links in the confirmation mail
Send a link with the booking reference and an expiry. The guest pays from any wallet in any country, and the booking flips to paid when it confirms.
Hosted checkout on your booking engine
One redirect at the payment step. Your brand, your colours, the guest's coin.
Deposits and balances
A deposit link now, a balance link before arrival. Both against the same reference, both in the same ledger.
Refunds in kind
Cancel and refund to the sending wallet in one click, without a fee beyond the network cost.
A worked example
A boutique hotel, €1,800 booking from abroad
Illustrative. Card figures are typical European ranges and depend on your acquirer, sector and volume.
Talk to us about travel
Tell us what you sell and where, and we will come back with the pieces to switch on and a rate confirmed in writing.