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Planet Payments
Unranked in Payments Processing Software
We offer a revenue generating payments partnership
80% recommended by 105 hotels
Planet is popular in Germany, Austria and South Africa.
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.
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Planet's Provided Description:
"Accept payments in every way, shape and form. We provide integrated digital payment services on a unique single platform that offers acquiring, processing, digital wallets, VAT refund and currency conversion services. Our strength is our integrations to 100's of acquirers and partners globally. Take advantage of our all-in-one solution or select modular components to meet your needs. Choose Planet as your acquirer or keep your existing one - we're flexible. Our payment platform has you covered; online, in-store, via a payment link or via gift cards. We support 150+ currencies with our currency conversion service, so customers pay how they want to, and you earn revenue on every transaction. Customers can pay by credit cards/debit cards, contactless, chip and pin, and mobile wallets. As well as Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) such as PayPal and AliPay, We Chat Pay and Klarna at POS. Our online portals and dashboards for reporting, reconciliations and settlement management help you keep track of your growing hotel business. Smooth, secure payments however your guests want to pay - fully integrated to your PMS."
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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 52) and the #609 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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Competence, excellent preparation, speed in solutions and clarity in explanations of procedures. Kindness and availability are the flagship. Very Good.
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18 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...
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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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