Traditional airline payment systems often operate like disconnected arteries — each with its own route, interface, and complexity. The result? Fragmented provider relationships, limited visibility, and inefficiencies that drain resources and disrupt the customer experience. Payment Orchestration transforms this by unifying the ecosystem. Instead of juggling multiple providers and integrations, travel merchants gain a single, intelligent layer that connects everything seamlessly — from PSPs to acquirers to alternative payment methods. It’s not just about simplifying payments. It’s about unlocking flexibility, control, and innovation in a world where customer expectations never stop evolving. #PaymentOrchestration #PaymentOptimisation
CellPoint Digital
Financial Services
Pimlico, London 16,962 followers
The Leading Payment Orchestration Platform for airlines, hospitality and travel.
About us
CellPoint Digital is on a mission to make payments a strategic advantage for businesses in the air, travel, and hospitality sectors. We are orchestrating the future of payments with our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform. Our cutting-edge platform helps our clients turn payments from a cost into a profit booster. Beyond helping our clients to optimise the payment experience, our innovative solutions help them gain insight into their payment ecosystem to maximise approvals, lower costs and take control of their payments, resulting in more money to the bottom line. We simplify the complexity of 28+ card schemes (think MasterCard, Visa, American Express), 168+ alternative payment methods (think ApplePay, PayPal, Alipay) and 220+ processors (think Worldpay, Elavon, Union Pay) with a platform that combines the best of them all with intelligent routing driving success for our airline, travel, and hospitality clients. We believe payments should be a strategic asset, delivering financial, customer and operational value. Our vision is to unify the payment ecosystem, opening up a world of opportunities for leading brands in the air, travel, and hospitality industries. We transform the payment supply chain from a cost centre into a profit engine, turning every transaction into an opportunity for growth and competitive advantage. Our inclusive, collaborative culture sets us apart and makes CellPoint Digital a truly special place to join and apply your talent. We believe in the power of community, in bringing out the best in one another, in working cross-functionally and across borders to create something extraordinary for our clients and partners. Together, we are transforming the payments industry -- challenging, supporting and inspiring one another in the process.
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https://cellpointdigital.com
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- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Pimlico, London
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2007
- Specialties
- Travel Technology, Airline Technology, Digital Commerce Solutions, Mobile Payment Technology, Digital Intelligence, Alternative Payment Methods, Digital Payments, Travel Payments, Payment Orchestration, Payment Gateway, Intelligent Routing, Fintech, Multi Currency Pricing, e-commerce, Payments, AI, Machine Learning, and global payments
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In a landscape where digital trust defines competitive advantage, safeguarding customer payment data is no longer a compliance checkbox — it’s a strategic differentiator. Payment Orchestration acts as the connective tissue of this security ecosystem, uniting tokenization, vaulting, and data flows across issuers, acquirers, and merchants to ensure every transaction remains both seamless and secure. Tokenization replaces sensitive payment credentials with randomized tokens that hold no intrinsic value — reducing breach risk and compliance scope while enhancing payment efficiency. When orchestrated across multiple networks and merchant systems, these tokens form the backbone of secure, customer‑centric commerce. With the tokenization market projected to exceed $14B by 2030, its role in driving resilience, efficiency, and trust across travel payments has never been more critical. At CellPoint Digital, we enable airlines and travel brands to orchestrate this complexity — transforming fragmented payment systems into unified, secure, and flexible global infrastructures. #PaymentOrchestration #TravelPayments #Tokenization
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Traditional payment systems were built for stability - not agility. They’ve become a tangle of integrations that drive up costs, weaken visibility, and burden IT teams with complexity. The result? Missed revenue, operational friction, and mounting risk. Payment Orchestration changes that. Acting as a central intelligence layer between airlines and multiple PSPs, it seamlessly connects global payment partners, dynamically routes transactions, and optimises for cost, performance, and customer preference - all in real time. For CFOs, that means measurable financial impact: 🔹 Lower transaction fees and improved approval rates 🔹 Faster reconciliation and richer financial insights 🔹 ROI typically achieved within 12–18 months For CIOs, it unlocks agility and control: 🔹 API-first integration for faster go-live 🔹 Cloud-native scalability for global operations 🔹 Continuous compliance and automated fraud protection A number of leading airlines using our Payment Orchestration Platform are realising measurable gains — from reduced transaction costs to increased revenue yield and stronger financial resilience. The takeaway: Payment Orchestration isn’t just a payment upgrade. It’s the foundation of financial adaptability helping airlines respond instantly to market changes, control global payment performance, and unlock sustainable growth. #PaymentOrchestration #PaymentOptimisation
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Payments now shape revenue, margin, and customer experience. They decide whether marketing investments convert, how cash flows across markets, and how easily new retailing models - from ancillaries to bundles - can scale. Yet most travel companies still lose millions through: 🔹 Checkout abandonment: Travel faces some of the highest cart‑abandonment rates in ecommerce — often above 80%. Poor checkout flows and missing local payment options drive travellers elsewhere. 🔹 Failed authorisations: Rigid single‑acquirer setups waste revenue. Even small gains in approval rates can unlock tens of millions in incremental sales. 🔹 Operational complexity: Fragmented PSP and acquirer connections raise costs, blur visibility, and slow innovation. A Payment Orchestration Platform solves these structural issues by acting as a smart control layer across the payment supply chain - routing transactions dynamically, recovering soft declines intelligently, and unifying global and local methods into one intelligent layer. Link in comments to read more 👇 #PaymentOrchestration
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Travel leaders can’t afford to treat payments as plumbing. In a 1–2% margin industry, high abandonment, fraud, chargebacks and fragmented stacks quietly erase profit – or unlock it, if you get them right. At CellPoint Digital, we see travel‑native payment orchestration turning payments from a cost centre into a profit engine by: 🔹 Driving higher approvals through intelligent multi‑acquirer routing and smart retries. 🔹Simplifying operations with a unified network of global/local payment methods and automated reconciliation. 🔹 Giving executives real‑time visibility to manage cost to collect, chargebacks and payment‑driven CX as tightly as load factor or RevPAR. For the C‑suite, the question is no longer whether to modernise payments, but how fast – and with which strategic partner. #PaymentOrchestration #TravelPayments
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Travel commerce should be simple, but for many travel brands, outdated payment systems are making it harder, not easier, to grow. Rising costs, changing regulations like PSD3, and cyber risks are putting pressure on every part of the value chain. Legacy systems weren’t built for this complexity — multiple providers, high fees, compliance headaches, and fragmented data all create friction that slows growth. The good news? A modern Payment Orchestration changes that. By unifying all payment providers into one intelligent platform, you can: 🔹 Simplify operations across markets and channels. 🔹 Reduce processing costs with smart routing. 🔹 Strengthen compliance and security by design. 🔹 Deliver seamless, personalised payment experiences your travellers expect. At CellPoint Digital, we help travel brands reimagine payments turning a complex network into a competitive advantage. 👉 Explore how Payment Orchestration can transform your business: https://lnkd.in/e6Axnvnb #PaymentOrchestration #PaymentOptimisation
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Airlines are leaving millions on the table because of one hidden metric: payment performance. Every failed or delayed transaction doesn’t just impact cash flow — it damages conversion, erodes trust, and creates unnecessary operating costs. That’s why leading airlines are treating payment performance as a strategic lever for growth. 💡 With a Leading Payment Orchestration Platform, carriers can: 🔹 Boost authorization rates and reduce payment failures 🔹 Route transactions dynamically for optimal cost and speed 🔹 Automate refunds and payouts with precision 🔹 Support complex, multi-payer, or split payments effortlessly The ROI speaks for itself - even a 2% lift in payment performance can mean $200M in additional annual revenue for a $10B airline. This isn’t just a back-office upgrade. It’s about transforming payments into a performance engine that fuels profitability, scalability, and customer loyalty. Payment success = business success.
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We’re delighted to announce a new strategic collaboration with PayPal, a globally trusted leader in digital commerce. The PayPal integration is now live within our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform, enabling travel and retail merchants to activate PayPal payment options — including PayPal wallets and Buy Now, Pay Later solutions — through a single integration. Together, we’re helping merchants: 🔹 Simplify operations and accelerate time to market 🔹 Offer trusted, flexible ways to pay across markets 🔹 Improve conversion and deliver seamless checkout experiences By combining CellPoint Digital’s orchestration expertise with PayPal’s global reach and consumer trust, we’re powering the future of travel and retail payments — helping merchants scale globally with greater agility and control. ➡️ Click the link in the comments to learn more about the collaboration and how it supports frictionless payments for merchants and travellers alike. #Payments #PaymentOrchestration #DigitalTransformation
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Airline distribution is evolving fast — and payments must keep pace. We’ll be on-site at Airline Distribution, UATP’s annual interactive conference where leaders are redefining how airlines retail, distribute, and get paid. Iñaki Lopez will be there connecting with airline partners navigating new retail models, legacy complexity, and inconsistent acquiring performance. Discover how Payment Orchestration delivers greater control, visibility, and revenue uplift across the entire payment stack. 📍 Join us at Airline Distribution, and let’s explore how next‑generation payments can power smarter distribution for your airline. Book a meeting → https://lnkd.in/gNQRcZZr #PaymentOrchestration #AirlineDistribution #PaymentStrategy #AirlinePayments
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Airlines build sophisticated networks, optimize yield in real time, and orchestrate global fleets every day. Yet many still rely on payment infrastructure that can’t keep pace. The question isn’t what a Payment Orchestration Platform is — it’s whether to build one or buy one. Building promises control, but demands deep payments expertise, dedicated teams, and significant long-term investment. It can take years before value is realised. Buying delivers speed, scalability, and proven integrations with global payment methods — enabling airlines to focus on growth, not code. The best decision? The one grounded in your strategy, resources, and appetite for complexity. Our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform helps airlines accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs, and future-proof payment operations — so payment performance moves in lockstep with the rest of the business.
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