HLO mints payment pact

HELLOWORLD Travel Limited has announced an exclusive three-year partnership with Mint Payments, covering a full range of transactions including EFTPOS terminals, online credit card payments and EFT payments.

The first stage of the pact will launch later this month, with the new MintEFT platform which is being introduced as a successor to eNett EFT (TD 03 Aug).

Claimed to be “Australia’s first end-to-end payment solution for the travel industry,” the Mint-HLO deal will eventually cover the payment needs for any business in the travel supply chain including customer payments to travel agents, and from agents to wholesalers or suppliers, the companies promised.

Helloworld’s in-house Resworld mid-office system will be integrated with the Mint range of payment products, with HLO promising cost savings to members through aggregated volume benefits as well as process efficiencies and “savings by providing alternative payment options with more competitive pricing structures”.

MEANWHILE TravelManagers has also announced its adoption of the MintEFT payment solution, having approached the company for an alternative when eNett confirmed the withdrawal of its product (TD 03 Jun).

TravelManagers Finance and Commercial Manager, Tanyu Cilek, said the company had worked with Mint to create a system that provides all the existing features of eNett and more, including the ability for payments to be authorised centrally by the group’s National Partnership Office “enabling us to maintain the integrity of our fully funded client account”.