{"id":3743,"date":"2024-12-18T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:43:57","slug":"makes-travel-merchant-high-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/makes-travel-merchant-high-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Travel Merchant High Risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What makes your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/Travel-Payment-Processing\">travel merchant account<\/a> high risk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Travel environments are unique and 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 either a reserve or account termination. Therefore 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. Therefore, a merchant account is an unsecured loan.<\/p>\n<p>The merchant runs a transaction and at the end of the day they settle their batch. \u00a0The 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 and how they affect your merchant account.<\/p>\n<p>Educating the merchant and ensuring they have a good understanding of what makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/Travel-Payment-Processing\">travel merchant account high risk<\/a>, is one of our specialties.<\/p>\n<p>Call NTC to speak with a Travel Merchant Account Specialist today!<\/p>\n<p>Dial 888-996-2273<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes your travel merchant account high risk? Travel environments are unique and transactions are usually keyed in. There\u2019s almost<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/makes-travel-merchant-high-risk\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,139],"tags":[199,225,1161,386,423,84,27,808,87,140,2783,2798],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-travel-agency-agents","tag-bank","tag-card","tag-chargebacks","tag-financial","tag-loan","tag-merchant","tag-payment","tag-processors","tag-transactions","tag-travel","tag-travel-agent","tag-travel-merchant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}