Travel Merchant Account

Q: What is a Travel Merchant Account?

A Travel Merchant Account allows travel agencies and booking platforms to accept secure card payments globally.

Q: What is a High Risk Merchant Account?

A High Risk Merchant Account is designed for businesses in industries like travel that face higher chargeback or fraud risk.

Q: Do you offer Fast High Risk Approval?

Yes, we provide fast high risk approval for eligible travel and booking businesses after a quick application review.

Q: What is a Booking Payment Gateway?

A Booking Payment Gateway enables travel businesses to securely accept online payments for tours, tickets and reservations.

Q: Can I accept payments if I’ve been declined before?

Yes, our “Got Declined? We’ll Approve!” process helps many travel businesses previously rejected by other providers.

Q: Do you support Travel Agents Merchant Accounts?

Yes, we offer dedicated Travel Agents Merchant Accounts for agencies, tour operators and holiday booking companies.

Q: How do you handle high chargeback businesses?

We provide High Chargeback Solutions including fraud monitoring, risk screening and tailored underwriting to reduce disputes.

Q: What makes your High Approval Rates possible?

Our specialist underwriting process evaluates each travel business individually, leading to higher approval rates than traditional banks.

Q: What industries do you consider high risk?

We support travel, ticketing, tours, bookings, and other high-risk sectors that often struggle with traditional payment providers.

Q: What is your application process like?

Our application process is simple and fully online, designed to reduce paperwork and speed up approval decisions.

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Travel merchant accounts with fast approval, global payments and secure high-risk processing for booking platforms, agencies and travel businesses accepting card payments worldwide.

PCI DSS Compliant Infrastructure

Protect customer data and process payments securely with a fully PCI DSS compliant gateway and advanced security controls.

Specialist High Risk

We specialise in supporting industries that traditional providers often reject, including travel, bookings, and high-risk ecommerce models.

Fraud & Risk Engine

Accept High Risk Payments Expand your business globally with the ability to accept high-risk and cross-border transactions securely.

Global Payments

Fast approvals for travel merchant accounts and booking platforms

High-Risk Travel Payment Solutions

CardPayGO provides specialist high-risk merchant accounts for travel businesses that struggle to get approved with traditional banks.

We help you accept payments securely, even if you’ve been declined before.

High-Risk Underwriting

Specialist underwriting for travel businesses, reducing declines and improving approval chances across all applications

Onboarding Support

Guided onboarding with compliance checks, helping high-risk travel businesses get approved and start processing quickly

Simple Application Process

Easy online application designed for travel merchants, with minimal paperwork and rapid decision turnaround

Fast Risk-Based Approval

Fast risk assessment and onboarding for travel merchant accounts with quick application review process

Risk & Performance Solutions

Tailored Risk Solutions

Every business is different. We tailor underwriting and processing solutions based on your industry, transaction type, and risk profile.

High Chargeback Solutions

Travel businesses face higher refund and chargeback rates. We help reduce risk through:

Fraud monitoring tools

• Transaction screening
• Risk-based approval models
• Industry-specific underwriting
• High Approval Rates

We focus on approving legitimate businesses quickly, even in high-risk sectors where others decline applications.

CardPayGo High Risk

A trusted payment solution for high-risk and travel businesses needing stability, scalability, and fast onboarding.

The Solution Your Business Deserves

We’re more than just a payment processor. We’re your partner in growth. When you work with us, you’ll enjoy:

Mobile Apps

With mobile technology and applications becoming more popular and part of everyday commerce, CardPayGo have embraced m-commerce and have the ability to process payments across these devices

Fraud Management

Customisable fraud management tools that provide the Merchant with the ability to dictate the levels to which the Merchant’s account will automatically check transaction authenticity.

PDQ Transactions

For any face-to-face card transaction, a PDQ device is required in order to authenticate the transaction using the cardholders PIN. CardPayGo is able to supply a wide range of PDQ terminal devices.

Payment Modules

To help our merchants integrate with our Payment Gateway we have taken the time to create plugins for various systems, these are provided as is under a GPL licence.

Direct Integration

With direct integration, your website (complete with SSL certificate) payment pages capture the cardholders personal and credit card details and then forwards these behind the scenes to the secure CardPayGo Payment Gateway.

Hosted Form

In order to make the Hosted Form process a little more seamless for the cardholder, we are able to fully customise the payment page. Either the merchant can supply us with full CSS design or we can simply apply a customised header and footer with your company logo to the page

What is a Travel Merchant Account?

A Travel Merchant Account allows travel agencies and booking platforms to accept secure card payments globally.

What is a High Risk Merchant Account?

A High Risk Merchant Account is designed for businesses in industries like travel that face higher chargeback or fraud risk.

Do you offer Fast High Risk Approval?

Yes, we provide fast high risk approval for eligible travel and booking businesses after a quick application review.

What is a Booking Payment Gateway?

A Booking Payment Gateway enables travel businesses to securely accept online payments for tours, tickets and reservations.

Can I accept payments if I’ve been declined before?

Yes, our “Got Declined? We’ll Approve!” process helps many travel businesses previously rejected by other providers.

Do you support Travel Agents Merchant Accounts?

Yes, we offer dedicated Travel Agents Merchant Accounts for agencies, tour operators and holiday booking companies.

How do you handle high chargeback businesses?

We provide High Chargeback Solutions including fraud monitoring, risk screening and tailored underwriting to reduce disputes.

What makes your High Approval Rates possible?

Our specialist underwriting process evaluates each travel business individually, leading to higher approval rates than traditional banks.

What industries do you consider high risk?

We support travel, ticketing, tours, bookings, and other high-risk sectors that often struggle with traditional payment providers.

What is your application process like?

Our application process is simple and fully online, designed to reduce paperwork and speed up approval decisions.

How do I get started with CardPayGo?

You can apply online by submitting your business details through the enquiry form. After review and approval, your merchant account and payment gateway can typically be activated quickly.

What clients say about CardPayGO...

Huge thanks to the CardPayGo team Huge thanks to the CardPayGo team for the excellent support. The team helped us find the right processing solution and made onboarding effortless. Fast, smart, and super reliable. Highly recommend!

Rafael Sarim

Sarah is simply the best customer manager! Thank you so much, Sarah! She was helping on every step. She did even more than she could. It was the best assistance I ever got

Timur Kadyrov

Great support, thinking about the benefit for it's customers when offering solutions. Fast, friendly and good support. They take the time to help you and reply to every question asked. Unlike many other companies we had contact with before, they do try to find the best solution for their customers and not only for themselves. I would definitely recommend CardPayGo.

David Jorissen