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Planet Payments
5.0 (2 REVIEWS)
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Planet Payments
Unranked in Payments Processing Software
We offer a revenue generating payments partnership
81% recommended by 104 hotels
Planet is popular in Germany, Austria and South Africa.
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I analyzed all of Planet’s product reviews, expert recommendations, features, capabilities, pricing, integrations and more to produce the below summary.
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What Types of Hotels Planet is Popular For
Size
36 | Large (75-199 room)
35 | Medium (25-74 room)
12 | Small (10-24 room)
15 | X-Large (200+ room)
2 | X-Small (1-9 room)
Country
35 | Germany
12 | Austria
12 | South Africa
9 | Czech Republic
8 | Spain
7 | France
4 | United States of America
4 | Italy
2 | Portugal
2 | Iran
2 | Liberia
2 | Canada
1 | Argentina
1 | Lesotho
1 | Mexico
1 | Andorra
1 | Belize
1 | Romania
1 | United Kingdom
Type
21 | Bed & Breakfast & Inns
35 | Boutiques
31 | Branded Hotels
1 | Casinos
34 | City Center Hotels
14 | Airport/Conference Hotels
7 | Extended Stay & Serviced Apartments
4 | Hostels
25 | Limited Service & Budget Hotels
33 | Luxury Hotels
2 | Motels
17 | Resorts
3 | Vacation Rentals & Villas
Region
7 | North America
80 | Europe
2 | Middle East
1 | South America
1 | Central America
15 | Africa
Category
107 | Property Management Systems
2 | Booking Engine
2 | Payments Processing Software
1 | Hospitality Wi-Fi Solutions
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What is Planet?
Founded in 1985 | Headquarters in Ireland | 1740 employees
Planet Payments is a comprehensive payment management platform tailored for businesses looking to streamline their payment processes. It offers an integrated digital payment service on a single platform, encompassing every aspect of acquiring, processing, digital wallets, VAT refund, and currency conversion services. Its standout feature is the integration with hundreds of global acquirers and partners, providing remarkable flexibility.
You can choose an all-in-one solution or select specific modular components to align with your business needs. Use Planet as your primary acquirer or retain your current one - the platform adapts seamlessly. Planet Payments supports a wide variety of payment methods, including credit/debit cards, contactless, chip and pin, mobile wallets, and alternative payment methods like PayPal, AliPay, WeChat Pay, and Klarna at the point of sale.
With support for over 150 currencies, it ensures customers can pay in their preferred way, enhancing customer satisfaction and boosting your revenue on each transaction. Additionally, its online portals and dashboards provide essential reporting, reconciliation, and settlement management tools, keeping you in control and informed.
Planet Payments delivers smooth, secure transactions whether online, in-store, via a payment link, or through gift cards, and fully integrates with your Property Management System (PMS) for enriched data continuity and operational efficiency.
Capabilities
Planet doesn’t have any benefits or use cases available
Features
Workflow Automation
4/5 features
Payment Methods
4/5 features
Security & Fraud Prevention
4/5 features
Multi-Currency
4/5 features
Adjustments
4/5 features
Hardware
4/5 features
Planet Reviews Summary
Ease of Use
3.0/5
Customer Support
3.0/5
ROI
3.0/5
Implementation
1.0/5
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This vendor's trending score is rising, Planet Payments is the #9 most trending product in the Payments Processing Software category (out of 51) and the #510 most trending product overall in the global hotel tech ecosystem. HTR assesses vendor's real time activity in the market to give buyers a sense of whether a product is gaining momentum
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10
Payment check and web site assistance
Accounting dept. from 100 to 199 room City Center Hotel in Bologna (Italy)
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1 months ago
Competence, excellent preparation, speed in solutions and clarity in explanations of procedures. Kindness and availability are the flagship. Very Good.
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Protel Air
Revenue Manager from 100 to 199 room in Bad Gleichenberg (Austria)
Verified
16 months ago
I recommend to use this product ONLY to run a single property, with a simple rate structure, no more than 2 room types, without interfacing to any RMS, CRM, BI or similar external systems, and catering to simple individual leisure travelers only. Alternatively, use it if your intelligent, proactive and wholesomely experienced staff run your...
Austria
Austria
Revenue Manager
Large Hotel
- 1
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Industry experts recommend Protel for its exceptional versatility and adaptability, making it suitable for various types of hotels including individual, chain, and resort hotels. Noteworthy features include comprehensive integration capabilities through the protel io interface, a robust cloud-based PMS that centralizes hotel management, and the flexibility to support both on-premise and cloud solutions. Additionally, Protel's constant evolution with new technologies and its high degree of customization stand out as unique selling points.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Question:
What does this product or service do well?
Answer:
protel, is characterised by its versatility. It fulfils the requirements of different types of hotels, such as individual hotels, hotel chains and resorts. Protel offers extensive functions that optimise processes. It supports hotels throughout the guest journey, making it a versatile and efficient solution.
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protel, is characterised by its versatility. It fulfils the requirements of different types of hotels, such as individual hotels, hotel chains and resorts. Protel offers extensive functions that optimise processes. It supports hotels throughout the guest journey, making it a versatile and efficient solution.
It's an efficient cloud-based PMS that centralizes your hotel management. It integrates a housekeeping management module that is very helpful to increase the productivity of your team, but alwo income management and Yield management modules.
The protel interface and integration capabilities make connecting the hotel property management system to our upselling platform seamless for all our protel pms customers. The protel on-premise and cloud solutions are robust and designed to enhance guest experiences.
Protel offers a great and easy integration tool with their messages option. This is fully customizable and works well with pre-set configuration to allow for seamless and accurate information sent to the guests.
We are a revenue management solution and have implemented 100 hotels with Protel so far. To onboard new customers, a structured process is followed which allows an easy implementation. The feedback and customer satisfaction from our joint hotels is amazing. Happy about this great partnership.
Question:
What differentiates this product or service from the competition?
Answer:
The protel io interface offers the possibility of deep integrations. This is backed up by the exceptional support team that is available for all enquiries. In addition, protel is constantly adapting to integrate new technologies into its system so that the software is always at the forefront of industry advancements.
Showing all answers to: "What differentiates this product or service from the competition?"
The protel io interface offers the possibility of deep integrations. This is backed up by the exceptional support team that is available for all enquiries. In addition, protel is constantly adapting to integrate new technologies into its system so that the software is always at the forefront of industry advancements.
There are often new updates that enriches the features. The integrated channel manager is connected to OTAs to allow you to provide your offers on the best distribution channels. They also integrate a booking engine to increase the number of direct bookings.
The protel team is constantly pioneering and introducing new features to their solutions which is always great for the end-users as well as their integration partners who are able to explore additional ways to add value to their combined offerings.
Protel's support, sales, product and management team is always available with a fast turnaround time should you need any assistance. They go the extra mile in obtaining additional information from third party applications should the need be.
Protel delivers high quality services that customers can always rely on. However, they are constantly evolving and creating new features. By easily connecting the PMS with a huge range of other technologies, protel offers a high degree of flexibility for hotels across any sector.
Question:
Based on your experience with this product or service, if you could give one piece of advice to a hotelier considering this product or service, what would it be?
Answer:
I would recommend looking at both the on-premise solution and the protelAir cloud solution. Given the different requirements for a PMS, it is important to evaluate these products and seek advice from the excellent protel team to find the best solution for your specific needs.
Showing all answers to: "Based on your experience with this product or service, if you could give one piece of advice to a hotelier considering this product or service, what would it be?"
I would recommend looking at both the on-premise solution and the protelAir cloud solution. Given the different requirements for a PMS, it is important to evaluate these products and seek advice from the excellent protel team to find the best solution for your specific needs.
This is more than a simple PMS. It has a lot of other features ton consider to optimize your business. Check their website to know all the product specification to select the functionnalities that you need and ask them for a demo to know more.
The protel on-premises and cloud solutions are robust and build to cater for any hotel type, the product demo's are clear and well delivered and we would recommend booking a demo to explore how protel can help your hotel or resort streamline operations and enhance your guest experiences. Remember to explore their integrations to discover some added upselling functionality to drive your ROI!
Whether you are a small bed and breakfast, big hotelier or restaurant owner. Rest assured that Ankerdata has the functionality suited to your needs. They also offer a cloud-based solution to allow for scalability.
If you are looking for a reliable solution with a lot of possibilities of extensions, then definitely take a look at Protel. For using RateBoard and Protel, we can say that this implementation provides a stable connection that is already trusted by over 100 hotels. Just arrange a demo and see for yourself if one of protel's solutions is the ideal option for you and your hotel.
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