{"id":28718,"date":"2019-09-04T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=28718"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:22:30","slug":"flyegypt-selects-payfort-as-its-payment-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/09\/04\/flyegypt-selects-payfort-as-its-payment-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"flyEgypt selects PAYFORT as its payment provider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Egypt\u2019s hybrid airline flyEgypt has selected PAYFORT\u2019s\ninnovative payment services to offer more payment options and an enhanced\nbooking experience for passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAYFORT, an Amazon company, has announced that flyEgypt, a\nCairo based hybrid airline chose PayFort\u2019s payment services to scale its\nbusiness faster, supporting its expansion and companywide innovation and to\ndeliver payment experiences for their customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new solution will also allow the airline to focus on\ntheir core values of customer focus and excellence in performance in a way that\nfurther improves both passenger experience and payment success ratios.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeyond the legislative challenges that affect everyone in\nthe industry, the biggest challenge we face is a lack of local and regional\nunderstanding of the low cost carrier \/hybrid business model, which is why we\nchose PAYFORT as our preferred payment service provider,\u201d said&nbsp;Captain\nIhab El Tahtawi, CEO at flyEgypt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs we continue to grow, and for the convenience of our\ncustomers, it becomes increasingly important for us to have a reliable payment\nservices provider and to widen the range of payment channels available to\ncustomers online, whilst keeping the transaction process easy-to-use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe scale that flyEgypt deals with means that customer\npayment transactions are just one element of this process, and we rely on\nPAYFORT to support us with its vast knowledge and expertise, not only with the\nairline industry but also international banks, technology providers and card\nschemes, as we continue to evolve our business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omar Soudodi, Managing Director of PAYFORT, said: \u201cLeading\ncompanies in the airlines space are choosing PAYFORT for its operational\nexcellence, constant availability, sustained scalability and innovative set of\npayment services that are proven to increase conversion, increase affordability\nand reduce cost, so that they can focus on their core business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPayfort persistently works to improve its services and\nflyEgypt can now rely on PAYFORT to help increase the Payment Success Ratio\n(PSR) of the ticketing process, not only on a transaction level, but also by\ntaking advantage of advice on how to enhance the customer experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCustomers will also now be able to use local payment\nmethods such as Egypt\u2019s national debit card MEEZA and KSA\u2019s national mada debit\ncard. We are excited to expand our strategic relationship with flyEgypt,\nworking closely to enable innovation at scale and fueling the carrier\u2019s Digital\nTransformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PAYFORT solution will allow customers to make payments using globally recognised payment leaders such as credit and debit cards, plus Egypt\u2019s national debit card MEEZA and Saudi Arabia\u2019s national payment card, mada. Additional payment networks &#8211; namely Installments, FAWRY and SADAD &nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 will be added in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAYFORT\u2019s operational expertise, scalability and industry-leading services and solutions empower flyEgypt to focus on driving an increase of the Electronic Payment Ratio (EPR), decreasing cost of payment transactions and enhancing conversion ratios, as well as drive more traffic to the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s hybrid airline flyEgypt has selected PAYFORT\u2019s innovative payment services to offer more payment options and an enhanced booking experience for passengers. PAYFORT, an Amazon company, has announced that flyEgypt, a Cairo based hybrid airline chose PayFort\u2019s payment services to scale its business faster, supporting its expansion and companywide innovation and to deliver payment experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047,34,13],"tags":[10899,872,803,10900,10901,2860],"class_list":["post-28718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-case-studies","category-top-stories","tag-airline","tag-amazon","tag-cairo","tag-flyegypt","tag-payfort","tag-payment"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28748,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718\/revisions\/28748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}