BR-DGE partners with Brooklyn Travel to power payments orchestration
By Gloria Methri
Glasgow-based Brooklyn Travel has signed a three-year deal for BR-DGE to become its sole payments orchestrator. BR-DGE will maintain Brooklyn Travel’s connectivity to its existing payment partners and empower it with new acquiring connections to provide additional resilience and transaction routing options. BR-DGE will also provide access to new payment methods like instalment options and pay-by-bank options, which are growing in popularity with travel customers.
Operating since 1972, Brooklyn Travel offers a diverse range of specialist travel brands. Known for delivering exceptional holiday experiences, its brand portfolio includes CruiseKings, Stewart Travel, Santa Claus Trips, Canterbury Travel, Destinology, and Villa Select.
With its payment orchestration services, BR-DGE will provide a singular streamlined payment experience across all of the Brooklyn Travel Group brands. This includes increased platform resilience, multi-acquiring connectivity, and smart volume-based transaction routing enabled from go-live – all through a single integration.
Brooklyn Travel joins other major travel brands to have selected BR-DGE’s services over the past year, including Kenwood Travel and Travel Counsellors. By accessing BR-DGE’s payment orchestration tech, Brooklyn Travel will gain access to a modular platform of over 400 payment methods, providers and solutions.
Commenting on the partnership, Tom Voaden, VP of Commercial at BR-DGE, said, “Travel is bouncing back in a big way, but with volumes rising, and customers demanding more payment choice, business growth can mean more payment integrations, complexities and pressures to manage. With BR-DGE, Brooklyn Travel will enjoy a simplified and streamlined payment process and a reliable and consistent front-end experience for their customers.”
“From payment processing to fraud monitoring, smart routing and hybrid tokenisation services, BR-DGE’s payment orchestration pulls together all of these moving parts together to give travel platforms simplified integrations.”
Duncan Wilson, CEO at Brooklyn Travel, said, “We have come a long way over that time, having acquired several brands to widen the choice of travel experiences to our loyal customers, and a growing number of new customers too. At this exciting time in our journey, we have found the perfect partner in BR-DGE, who will not only ensure connectivity to our existing acquirers but quickly facilitate new acquirers as well, along with enhanced platform resilience and improved checkout experiences that can evolve with customer demand.”
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