Enhanced Version of PayPal Split Payment Now Live!

Finally, after four months of intensive work, the new version of our PayPal Split Payment System is up and fully operational.

Initially, there were a few hurdles to overcome but things have now settled down and feedback on this latest version is overwhelmingly positive. Here’s why:

Wins for Licensees:

• Run your business on auto pilot. No more time wasted figuring out supplier payments, etc. This now all happens automatically.
• Eliminate concerns about licensing issues in different jurisdictions. Funds are immediately paid out to suppliers, meaning that you do not hold them at any point.

Wins for Your Suppliers:

• Instant pay – they receive their money immediately (no more waiting 30 to 60 days after the guest has checked out).
• Suppliers do not need to be current PayPal members to use PayPal Split Payment. They will be sent an email advising them that there is money waiting to be withdrawn and they will be invited to sign up with PayPal to withdraw the funds.
• There is no additional cost to your suppliers to use this functionality.

You have the ability to conveniently switch PayPal Split Pay on or off on a per-property basis.

In addition, to enable a better ‘audit trail,’ we have also introduced a journal system thatallows you to apply taxes through the PayPal system. These taxes may be GST/VAT-type taxes where you receive a credit from the government or sales-type taxes where you do not.

To further facilitate the use of PayPal, Accommodation Guru has also introduced the following features:

• Property guests do not have to be PayPal members to use PayPal. They can just use their credit/debit cards as they normally would with other online merchants.
• To avoid tedious data duplication, Accommodation Guru now reparses information filled in by the guest on previous screens. This makes the payment process a lot more streamlined.