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Keeping your business moving

The inside track

Continuously rising fuel prices and a flat-lining economy have proved a difficult combination for the travel and transport sector.

The result is an industry looking for ways to offer customers more value, protect margins and find new sources of revenue. Which is exactly what our payment acceptance solutions are designed to do.

The good news

Despite industrial disputes, rising fuel prices and environmental and security concerns, airline travel is on the rebound. Private car hire is up too, partly due to new products, but also to the downturn in demand for car ownership. And the upcoming London Olympics will give many travel and transport companies something to smile about. During the 7-week games period, the UK looks set to benefit from a £750 million consumer spending injection, £709 million of which will be from international visitors¹.

Rapid online growth

Internet sales are forecasted to reach £37.5 billion by 2014, driven in part by the rise in mobile internet shopping². We can help you benefit from this trend with our range of e-commerce solutions.

A call to cut the queues

Consumers and passengers are demanding faster service when making purchases. Keep your business moving swiftly with contactless payments.

We've helped create competitive advantages for our partner merchants, including:


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¹ Visa Europe London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Expenditure and Economic Impact Report, July 2011.
² Retailing – United Kingdom, Euromonitor International: Country Market Insight March 2010 (p3-4).

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Just the ticket

Our experience of working with organisations across the travel and transport sector has allowed us to develop a full range of products and services to meet your specific needs, all delivered under one roof.

Our terminals and virtual solutions allow you to accept payments from customers quickly and safely, in premises or on the move. And with our contactless technology, you can take payments of £15 or less in under a second, helping you maximise sales.

In person

Process sales, refunds, gratuities, pre-authorisations and purchases with cashback with our colour display payment terminals. Our classic terminals are perfect for traditional paypoints, while our portable terminals, usable up to 100m from the base, allow the terminal to be taken to the customer.

On the move

Our mobile terminals use a GPRS system that finds the strongest signal from three networks to accept card payments almost anywhere, making them a popular solution for taxi firms and other transport services.

Card-not-present payments

Customers need to feel their payments are secure when making important purchases like tickets. So if you're selling online, over the phone or by mail order, rely on our PCI DSS compliant ePDQ solutions for a reliable, customer-friendly way to accept card payments around the clock. Online, our ePDQ system integrates seamlessly into your existing website payment pages. Or use ePDQ Lite, our simple web-based virtual terminal, to accept payments over the phone or by mail, with real-time authorisation.

International payments

Barclaycard SmartPay is an online payment gateway for pan-European transactions and payment processing services. Simple and secure, it allows you to take control of your international online business and meet PCI DSS.

Fighting Fraud

Our leading fraud prevention product Fraud Reporter provides you with data to expose fraud wherever it’s hiding, and acts fast with real time Issuer alerts to intercept fraudulent transactions that have been processed – preventing losses to your business.

We has also brought together all of the industry’s best fraud solutions into one convenient package. Read more about how our fraud management tools can help protect your business.

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Boost turnover with new income streams

To counteract the challenges posed by the competitive economic environment, we've developed innovative additional services to help you attract more customers and bring in new sources of revenue.

Fighting fraud

Given current financial pressures, tackling fraud is now one of the highest priorities for many businesses, which is why we developed Fraud Reporter. Unique to Barclaycard, customers receive a daily report detailing fraudulent transactions accepted by their business during the previous 24 hours², helping to detect trends and reduce the risk of future fraud.

Dynamic Currency Conversion

If you provide services to tourists or business travellers, you'll be interested in Dynamic Currency Conversion. It benefits both you and your customers. They'll see their purchases in up to 21 local currencies, accounting for 87% of foreign card turnover¹ as well as sterling, and choose which one to pay with. And you'll receive a share of the foreign exchange commission.

¹ Fexco, 2011.
² 72 hrs following a weekend, 96 hrs following a bank holiday weekend.

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