Hotel solutions company HRS, which partners with AirPlus
Mobile Aida and American Express’ vPayment for virtual cards, will enable
virtual card payment through Concur by the first quarter of 2017, HRS head of
interface solutions Lyndsey Tufo told BTN
during the Global Business Travel Association conference last week.
Client corporations will set the controls on the virtual
card and the payment option will be noted in the traveler's profile. "When
a traveler logs into Concur and they're booking their reservation, it's
triggered that it's a virtual card transaction so the [application program
interface] is called to HRS or to one of our issuers and the virtual card is
then passed to the hotel," Tufo explained.
A fax is generated and sent to the hotel and the traveler will
also receive virtual credit card details through the HRS mobile app to show at
the front desk or to refax the authorization to the hotel if it's misplaced.
HRS has 120,000 hotel chains and 180,000
independent hotels in its portfolio, all of which accept virtual card payment,
according to Tufo.