Case Study: (More Than) A New Payment Solution for Riviera Travel

In early 2021 we partnered with Riviera Travel to deliver a solution that allows accepting payments both directly through the website as well as via a dedicated call center. This upgrades and diversifies their checkout flow, enabling the business to offer their customers a broader choice of payment options to suit their preferences.

About Riviera Travel

Riviera Travel is a UK-based travel service provider with 37+ years of experience, specializing in cruise and escorted tours. They are renowned for their outstanding crafted itineraries, and authentic travel experiences with local experts. The company owes its award-winning reputation to a combination of passion for travel, fascinating destinations, and great customer service.

Towards a One-Stop Payment Solution

Riviera Travel was looking to update its website with a payment solution that would serve as a one-stop interface for transactions, payment-data storage, and processing.

Objectives included:

Full-Scope Acquiring Services

As a Principal Member of both Visa and Mastercard, DECTA delivered a solution that operates via the standard Visa/Mastercard payment method, allowing Riviera Travel to accept payments with both payment scheme providers. Our team achieves this by verifying and settling customer payments with Visa and Mastercard.

The service is catered to a wide international audience, since it allows payments in 50+ currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CHF, DKK, SEK, CAD, NOK, PLN, CZK.

It is built to guarantee high availability, with projected uptime of 99.98%. Additionally, Strong Customer Authentication was enabled in full compliance with the latest industry-standard 3-D Secure 2.0 protocol.

All of the above facilitates an uninterrupted payment flow and a smooth, predictable customer experience. These, in turn, are substantial factors that contribute to higher conversions and increased transaction completion rates.

Support & Cost-Efficiency

Along with improving customer experience, the solution has introduced upgrades in Riviera Travel’s business-facing processes.

As such, the client now has full single-point-of-contact access to our in-house payment processing center. This offers a number of advantages, including:

Another important benefit of this setup is its cost-efficiency. For one thing, the project cost was initially assessed and negotiated with the client’s best interests in mind. Further, since the entire solution was made available as a single service package provided by one company, any hidden add-ons, and third-party commissions were eliminated.