Elavon launches new payments interface for hospitality industry

ATLANTA (June 25, 2024) - Elavon, one of the world's largest payments processors, today announces the launch of Elavon Cloud Payments Interface, a new API that simplifies managing the digital and in-person payments experience for hotels and other hospitality-related businesses.

"Elavon Cloud Payments Interface helps continue digital transformation across the hospitality industry by enhancing guest experiences, streamlining operations and providing real-time safe and secure data synchronization. This let's us focus on the payment and allows our merchants to focus on delivering exceptional service," said Pari Sawant, global chief product officer at Elavon. "This system cuts the cord and enables a smoother experience by enabling guests to charge for meals and services wherever they are."

At its core, Elavon Cloud Payments Interface embeds payments conveniently and safely for both guests and merchants. For guests, it simplifies the ability to pay anywhere, anytime while protecting their payment data and information. For hospitality businesses in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, this cloud-based system scales payments and supports third-party payments providers, while being PCI compliant.

Advantages the system provides business owners and franchisees include:

• Integrated Guest Experiences: Bring payment capabilities to every stage of the guest journey, from booking reservations to checking-out and leverage transactions and updates reflected across PMS and POS devices in real-time. System offers full support of contactless and mobile payments.
• Cloud Transformation and Developer Experience: The RESTful API allows straightforward integration and development of cloud-based software tools to accept payments. Allows integration with third party payments providers.
• Device Integration and Scale: Easily add new locations and devices, pairing without significant infrastructure changes or investments through the cloud.
• Enhanced Security: Delivering Elavon's robust suite of fraud protection capabilities from the start of implementation.
• Compliance: Automatic software updates systems are always up-to-date with latest features and patches.

For more about Elavon Cloud Payments Interface, visit the Developer Portal here.