Priority markets
Payment needs
- Checkout routes for cards, wallets, instant bank transfers, QR payments, BNPL, cash vouchers, and local bank methods where they fit booking behavior.
- Strong cancellation, refund, partial refund, no-show, chargeback, and voucher-expiry handling tied to booking and ticket validity.
- Support for high-value orders, multi-passenger bookings, cross-border customers, foreign currency display, and local settlement questions.
- Reconciliation across booking ID, passenger or attendee reference, travel date, ticket status, refund status, settlement currency, FX, and fee components.
- Provider review of travel category, event ticketing, delayed fulfilment, advance booking, regulated travel services, and fraud controls.
Recommended route categories
- Start with local PSP or acquirer routes that understand domestic wallets, QR, bank transfer, local cards, and cash voucher methods in the target country.
- Keep a global PSP or travel-oriented acquirer in the shortlist for cards, cross-border customer support, and fallback acceptance.
- For ticketing and events, verify whether payment confirmation timing fits ticket release, seat reservation, and cancellation windows.
- For travel packages and transport, ask whether high-value orders, delayed delivery, partial refunds, and chargeback evidence are reviewed separately.
- Use country and compare pages to map methods first, then confirm travel/ticketing acceptance with official provider contacts.
Provider selection questions
- Does your risk review cover travel, ticketing, events, attractions, transport, package booking, and delayed fulfilment separately?
- Which methods provide immediate confirmation, and which can remain pending past the seat, room, ticket, or inventory hold period?
- How are partial refunds, cancellations, no-shows, postponements, chargebacks, and evidence files handled?
- Can reports carry booking ID, ticket ID, passenger or attendee reference, travel date, country, currency, FX, fee components, refund, and settlement batch?
- What entity, licensing, tax, customer-service, and cancellation-policy documents are required for onboarding?
Risk and compliance notes
- Travel and ticketing often involve advance purchase and delayed fulfilment, so provider review may differ from ordinary ecommerce.
- Do not assume BNPL, high-ticket card processing, cash voucher, or bank-transfer flows are suitable for all bookings without confirmation.
- Pending methods need strict inventory-hold rules to avoid overselling or releasing tickets before payment is confirmed.
- Refund rights, event cancellation, travel disruption, chargeback evidence, and consumer disclosures should be reviewed per market.
Suggested internal links
- /en/knowledge-center/how-to-choose-psp-new-country/
- /en/knowledge-center/chargebacks-refunds-and-disputes-in-cross-border-payments/
- /en/knowledge-center/payouts-and-settlement-timelines-in-emerging-markets/
- /en/knowledge-center/settlement-currency-fx-questions/
- /en/knowledge-center/middle-east-mada-and-uae-local/
- /en/countries/united-arab-emirates/
- /en/countries/thailand/
- /en/compare/apple-pay-vs-google-pay/