{"id":3738,"date":"2025-01-14T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:54:10","slug":"what-makes-travel-merchant-high-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/what-makes-travel-merchant-high-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Travel Merchant High Risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What makes a travel merchant high risk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Travel environments are unique; transactions are usually keyed in. There\u2019s almost always a delayed delivery period, and large ticket transactions.<\/p>\n<p>One card holder may be paying for multiple tickets and they tend to be seasonal; with peak season months generating an unusual spike in their \u201caverage\u201d monthly volume and chargebacks, pose a potential threat by travelers who are unable to complete their trip.<\/p>\n<p>These factors can cause for a reserve, or even account termination. That\u2019s why travel merchant accounts are considered high risk.<\/p>\n<p>Most merchants do not realize that merchant processors carry a financial risk on merchant accounts, and normally fund merchants prior to receiving payment from the client\u2019s bank.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, a merchant account is an unsecured loan. The merchant runs a transaction and at the end of the day they settle their batch.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the merchant will receive the funds for that batch in their bank account within 2 business days even though the travel arrangements the client paid for do not take place right away.<\/p>\n<p>Here at National Transaction Corp, we specialize in understanding what makes your transactions as a travel agent unique; in how they affect your merchant account.<\/p>\n<p>Educating the merchant and ensuring they have a good understanding of what makes travel merchant account high risk, is one of our specialties.<\/p>\n<p>Call NTC to speak with a Travel Merchant Account Specialist today!<\/p>\n<p>NTC the Travel Experts! 888-996-2273<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a travel merchant high risk? Travel environments are unique; transactions are usually keyed in. There\u2019s almost always a<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/what-makes-travel-merchant-high-risk\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-travel-agency-agents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}