SINGAPORE /PRNewswire/ -- Airlines
around the world now have the ability to add Apple Pay quickly to
the roster of supported payment methods for passengers' tickets
purchases, thanks to the Converged Payment Gateway Solution from
CellPoint Mobile, a London-based payments solutions firm whose enterprise
software and technology support omnichannel payments for
airlines.
Acting
as a hub of pre-integrated payment services, CellPoint Mobile's
Converged Payment Gateway (CPG) provides software development kits
(SDKs) and application program interfaces (APIs) that airlines can
leverage to integrate Apple Pay to passengers in a matter of hours
or days, rather than weeks or months.
Emirates, the world's largest international airline and a CellPoint
Mobile client, has become the first global airline to support Apple
Pay for the purchase of airline tickets.
CellPoint Mobile's Apple Pay announcement coincides with this
week's two-day 2nd Annual
Mega Event Asia Pacific event Sept. 1-2 in Singapore, where CEO Kristian Gjerding is demonstrating his firm's mobile
wallet capabilities.
In
addition to Apple Pay, the CellPoint Mobile CPG solution supports a
variety of currencies, devices and a range of payment methods,
including payment cards, third-party wallets, interbank payments,
alternate payments and various Payment Service Providers (PSPs). It
can be installed inside an airline's operational environment or as
a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Aided by CellPoint
Mobile's pre-integrated payment data, airlines can bring payment
solutions to market quickly, reduce the cost of payments by
improving relationships with PSPs and boost revenues by giving
passengers more paths to purchase as they travel.
"With
the payments ecosystem shifting to the mobile marketplace, airlines
are looking to solutions that can deliver Apple Pay and other
alternative payment methods to the marketplace quickly," said CEO
Gjerding. "Rather than spending weeks or months integrating a new
payment method and channel, airlines can now launch Apple Pay in
hours, and without the usual challenges of data integration and
costly IT resources."
Converged Payment Gateway serve as data hub for payment
methods
To schedule an interview with Gjerding, please
contact Vanessa Horwell at [email protected] or
+1.305.776.8817. For all other media requests please
contact Karina Castano at [email protected] or
+305.749.5342 ext. 240.
About CellPoint Mobile
CellPoint Mobile helps airlines around the world navigate and own
the complex payments ecosystem from beginning to end, regardless of
their passengers' preferred currency, payment method, device or
channel. Its technology infrastructure, solutions and
professional services enable airlines to manage and process
payments and transactions from a single, data-integrated platform,
regardless of channel, device or currencies. With offices
inLondon, Miami, Copenhagen and Pune, CellPoint Mobile serves global and regional
airlines. Since 2007, its Commerce Orchestration Platform has
helped companies across the world fulfil their digital strategy,
increase sales and improve margins. Visit www.cellpointmobile.com or
email [email protected] for
more information.
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