Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s new lawsuit against StubHub is just the latest occasion to call attention to practices that regulators have been contesting for years. The suit, filed Wednesday (July 31), accuses the ticket resale platform of drip pricing, utilizing the “deceptive and...
California will ban junk fees beginning July 1, after the state’s governor signed a bill into law on Saturday (Oct. 7). This move comes in response to growing concerns about the excessive charges that often far exceed the actual cost of the service provided, and...
We all loathe them: the added fees consumers only find out are part of the owed total when reaching checkout. The term for this phenomenon is “drip pricing” and refers to such added surcharges as airline fees, sales tax and cleaning fees for Airbnb and...
It’s the peak travel season, and online travel sites have a number of pressures to manage: the economy, airline strikes, keeping up with the latest in tech and even the weather (Phoenix, we’re looking at you!). That’s before, Paysafe says, the ever-shifting payments sands kick...
July 03, 2017
It’s the peak travel season, and online travel sites have a number of pressures to manage: the economy, airline strikes, keeping up with the latest in tech and even the weather (Phoenix, we’re looking at you!). That’s before, Paysafe says, the ever-shifting payments sands kick in: rising fraud, gaps between when a consumer books, when they take the trip and when the agent gets paid and accommodating the growing number of payments methods that consumers expect to see at checkout. Here are the five payments challenges that Paysafe says online travel sites need to overcome to make the journey worth the trip.
October 09, 2023
California will ban junk fees beginning July 1, after the state’s governor signed a bill into law on Saturday (Oct. 7). This move comes in response to growing concerns about the excessive charges that often far exceed the actual cost of the service provided, and it mirrors similar efforts being made on the federal level, […]
