Online travelling businesses have made it possible for enthusiasts to plan and execute tours/trips faster than ever. People feel it is more comfortable to plan their whole trip starting from selecting a destination and booking tickets to accommodations, food and managing billing and payment processes while sitting in their own homes. Online travelling solutions havemade it possible to provide a wider range of options to the travelers in terms of possible destinations,routes, expense packages and other travelling related incentives.

Such travel businesses are in more and more demand with the boom in international tourism, corporate travel, business gateways and the growth of internet. Travelling is a bigger business than any other and it is here to stay. Various options of managing travel business online make it a permanent business model. Recent times bring novel payment gateways and billing systems through travel management sites which accept multiple payment methods and make it an easy way for business travels, corporate travels as well as international travels.

Tours and travels management companies provide many facilities to the travelers including accommodations and reservations, easy & direct payment, mobile or online payment, discounts for cheapest travelling solutions and many more. A norm in the travelling industry is to collect a deposit amount for the whole tour as a way of booking a place on the tour. The remaining amount is collected later on in the process.

The challenge

The main problem for any online travelling business is the payment process that satisfies their customers-the travelers. Generally any traveling company collects the booking amount in advance. No company collects the whole payment in advance for the trip it is just a small token money and the remaining amount can be collected later on; after or during the tour. In online payment there is no way to pay half of your money up front and then pay the rest of it later on.

There are a lot of eCommerce frameworks available in market today. Most eCommerce stores use Magento as their online store solution. Magento is a powerful eCommerce development framework but even Magento doesn’t provide the feature of collecting payments from buyers in more than one step or installments.

Payment in parts or multiple installments is the major issue of concern for online traveling solution providers. Companies cannot demand a full payment in advance from the travelers and they are not able to collect payment as a deposit through proper channels on their Magento stores. They cannot generate a full amount invoice while they are getting paid only partially and they cannot generate two invoices for the same order in two or multiple parts.

Travelling business is a service industry and therefore depends entirely on the satisfaction and comfort of the client base. It is a major point of concern for online tour companies.

Solution

One solution for this problem could be to collect the deposit directly through local offices or off line methods and collect the remaining amount online. Another scenario could be to collect the deposit amount online first and the remaining amount later on through offline billing systems. But the co-ordination and management of streamlining both (or even multiple) parts of payment is a tough cookie to crack!

Indies Services offers an elegant solution for this persistent problem in travelling industry. Through Indies’ Partial Payment Magento extension the businesses are able to collect payment in multiple steps. Instead of dividing the payment options the amount of the payment is divided logically into two or more parts. Partial Payment extension for Magento allows travel management agents to provide a full amount of the package to customers at the planning stage and also helps divide it into installments for the customer’s convenience. Travelers can book the tour with a token amount and the rest of the amount can be paid in full or in multiple installments days after they booked their tour.

Partial Payment extension is created for eCommerce sites using Magento framework. Therefore travelling sites that use Magento can implement Partial Payment and they can configure installments, partially paid orders, and remaining amounts of money on each tour and details of the customers easily from their site’s administration area.

The result

Using Partial payment solution for their business the companies can increase their customer base and be able to provide flexible payment and billing systems to their customers. This in turn increases their customer satisfaction. Trust and customer satisfaction are of key importance in a travelling business. Magento Partial Payment extension helps both the travelers and the travel managers execute their work better.

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About Indies Services

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