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Card Services
Card Services, the preferred merchant application of Sabre Red, allows agencies to become the merchant on credit card transactions. It provides greater control over what prints on the credit card holders statement, offers a lower blended rate for transaction processing for all major credit card companies, all UATP Air Travel Cards and soon will include JCB cards.
Card Services is a fully integrated capability accessible from your desk top. Subscribers have greater cash flow with faster access to the service fee revenues charged to travelers. Card Services offers robust, detailed bank reporting via the internet and allows for auto reconciliation of transactions with back office accounting programs like TRAMS™, Sabre® CentralCommandSM and others.
Pricing and Special Offers
Standard and High Volume Settlement Rates will apply. Please contact your account director for more information.
Key Benefits
- Lower settlement charges.
- Automated reconciliation with back office accounting systems.
- Greater control over what prints on the credit cardholder’s statement.
- Faster access to the revenues from charges to travelers. Card Services deposits the full amount of every transaction daily, eight business days from the date of transaction and then debits the settlement charges with the last deposit of each month.
- Allows credit card transaction processing from your desk top. It uses Sabre’s credit card authorization process in real time, thus giving agencies security of processing larger dollar transactions up to $32K with auto authorization. With a manual transaction code from the credit card company, it allows for processing up to $999K.
Features
- Real-time credit card processing at the desk top.
- Send and print a ticket number with each transaction or a 10 character alpha numeric free field.
- Be the merchant of record on your transactions out side of ARC process.
- Greater cash flow throughout the month.
- Detailed and summary reporting as well as automated reconciliation.
Card Services is integrated with standard Sabre MISF service fee formats and can be used as the settlement vehicle with Revenue Advantage and Agency Fee Manager as well as the Sabre® Ticketing Assistant application.
Additional Information
When you sign up for your Merchant Account you will receive a welcome kit that includes training documents, contact and support information from Merchante-Solutions.com
Technical Requirements
Users must have access to the Sabre system and an Internet connection for reporting.
Access and Availability
Card Services is fully integrated into the Sabre system work flow and requires no special hardware or software. It uses standard Sabre formats for applying service fees. The reporting available from Merchant e-Solutions can be accessed from any internet connection and requires no special training or software.
Access
From your computer desktop.
Availability
United States (English & Spanish)
North America
