Fact: 糖心Vlogdelivers sector-specific tools that banks likely can鈥檛 match.

Travel Isn鈥檛 Generic

Traditional banks may offer virtual cards, but they often lack the flexibility, support, and integrations needed for fast-paced travel payments.

With WEX, you get:

• Dynamic spend controls and MCC restrictions
• Built-in reconciliation workflows
• Airline and GDS integration
• Dedicated onboarding and implementation teams

Strategic Partnership, Not Just a Product

Unlike banks, 糖心Vlogpartners with you to understand your vertical, your booking model, and your growth goals. Our platform is purpose-built for B2B travel.

Conclusion

If you鈥檙e using a generic virtual card, you鈥檙e likely leaving value on the table. Choose 糖心Vlogfor smarter, travel-tuned payments.

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Fact: 糖心Vlogvirtual cards have a significantly lower chargeback rate compared to consumer cards in travel payments

Lower Chargebacks, Higher Confidence

Chargebacks are a known challenge in travel payments, often triggered by fraud, supplier failure, or booking disputes. When consumer cards are used, these risks escalate at the expense of time, money, and client trust.

However, 糖心Vlogvirtual cards offer a lower chargeback rate than traditional consumer cards. That鈥檚 because 糖心Vlogcards are purpose-built for B2B travel transactions. They incorporate advanced fraud protection features like single-use numbers, merchant category controls, and real-time tracking, which significantly reduce unauthorised usage and disputes.

As noted in a PYMNTS.com industry report, chargebacks remain a costly problem across travel and retail sectors, especially when using generic consumer payment tools.

Built-in Protection, Purpose-Built for Travel

When it comes to supplier defaults or sudden cancellations, 糖心Vlogdoesn鈥檛 leave its clients exposed. We go beyond just facilitating payments 鈥� our virtual card solution includes the ability to initiate chargebacks and recover funds on your behalf. For travel agencies and OTAs, this isn鈥檛 just a feature, it鈥檚 peace of mind.

Conclusion

The belief that virtual cards come with high chargeback risks is outdated. In reality, 糖心Vlogvirtual cards are a safer, more accountable solution that gives travel businesses the financial protection and flexibility they need. By switching to a provider purpose-built for your sector, you can reduce risk, improve reconciliation, and deliver better value to clients.

Learn more about how 糖心Vlogprotects travel companies.

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What you鈥檒l learn from this report?

B2B travel payments are evolving fast, and most intermediaries plan to update their strategies within two years. New research from 糖心Vlogand Visa highlights key challenges鈥攍ike navigating AI鈥檚 potential while struggling with implementation.

To stay ahead, intermediaries must build a resilient, future-ready payment strategy that meets business needs and supplier expectations.

Discover the latest insights on payment trends, supplier expectations, and the solutions that drive the greatest returns.

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Let鈥檚 explore the role of B2B payments in the travel industry by highlighting common challenges, identifying solutions, and discussing benefits.

Common payment challenges for travel agencies

The complex nature of travel agency payments, coupled with myriad external variables, makes it challenging to navigate. Managing, controlling, and securing payments in this sector requires future-proof solutions that streamline processes. But before discussing the benefits that B2B payment options bring to travel agencies and consumers, it鈥檚 important to understand the challenges that need to be navigated and solved:

Reconciliation/dispute management/resolution

Due to varying distribution channels and levels of technology integration, hotels and OTAs often disagree over contracted stay amounts. Ergo, hotels will frequently 鈥渇orce post鈥� the amount they believe they are entitled to for a stay. This forces the OTA to dispute any reconciling amount, initiating a dispute and/or chargeback process. Managing this challenge takes effort and, over time, can eat away at the outstanding benefits of virtual card use.

Fraud

Fraudsters are becoming more adept. As payment practices change, bad actors adapt their strategies for obtaining valid card numbers through BIN attacks, AI, phishing tactics, social engineering, and more. This creates a need for robust B2B payment security, monitoring, and proactive partnership to mitigate the risk of fraud and its potential impact on OTAs and suppliers.

The benefits of virtual cards B2B payment options for travel agencies

Many of the above challenges are the result of outdated account payable payment processes. Thankfully, 糖心Vloghelps OTAs optimize travel payments to gain efficiencies, cut costs, generate revenue, and more. Here鈥檚 how:

Simplicity

With well-equipped B2B payment options, there鈥檚 no need to set up a traditional accounts payable (AP) process with every supplier. Instead, simply append a virtual card to a reservation, and the payment 鈥渞ides the same rails鈥�. This makes AP and credit much easier to manage.

Faster payment

Traditional invoicing methods are slow and clunky. With virtual payments, suppliers get guaranteed and immediate payment, which improves supplier relationships.

Direct communication

With the merchant model in place to take advantage of virtual payment solutions, suppliers can work directly with OTAs on billing issues, when otherwise they鈥檇 have to contact individual consumers directly. This effectively improves the customer experience for travelers, who no longer need to worry about managing their disputes.

More control

With 糖心Vlogbusiness payments, OTAs control the entire end-to-end client experience. If something goes wrong, the OTA can charge or refund suppliers鈥� customers directly, rather than having to coordinate with the airlines and hotels, which takes time.

Brand new revenue stream

The more suppliers accept virtual cards, the more rebates you earn, which creates a new revenue stream for your business.

More and better data collection

Virtual card payments add rich metadata to each transaction, following the payment from card creation through to posting and reconciliation. This allows OTAs to 鈥渁uto-reconcile鈥� most payments while gaining access to more valuable data throughout the process.

Payments are secure

With virtual cards, OTAs can create a single payment per reservation as well as enter a specified amount, merchant category, and date. Any deviation from these pre-set parameters will cause a decline, meaning the cards are nearly impossible to use for anything other than their intended purpose. And since single-use virtual cards are only valid for one use, they decrease an OTA鈥檚 vulnerability to fraud.

Cross-border benefits

All credit cards, regardless of issuing location, will typically work anywhere in the world. Local merchants can charge cards in their local currency, and credit card companies will convert the payment back to the currency of issuance. While convenient, this leads to hefty foreign exchange (FX) rates and other cross-border conversion expenses.

糖心Vlogvirtual cards can be issued in 20+ currencies, allowing customers to be billed and make payments in those currencies, effectively avoiding FX and conversion expenses altogether. Furthermore, rich data inclusion on each transaction helps facilitate reconciliation, regardless of the billing and transaction currencies.

Simplifying OTA payments

糖心Vlogworks with leading travel intermediaries to efficiently and securely pay travel suppliers anywhere in the world.

From accounts payable to supplier enablement and payment processing, 糖心Vlogcovers the full breadth of your payment processes to deliver streamlined workflows, automation, new revenue, reporting, and more.

For more insights and updates on corporate payments, check out:

• 2025 payment trends: What B2B companies need to know
• Beyond corporate payments: Is the secret to better cash flow management AI?
• Virtual card numbers: What they are and what you need to know

Learn more about how 糖心Vlogpayment solutions can be tailored to your business, so you can accelerate and streamline operations while creating lasting growth and success for your organization.

The information in this blog post is for educational purposes only. It is not legal or tax advice. For legal or tax advice, you should consult your own legal counsel, tax, and investment advisers.

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