About Protected Payment Services

Based in Northampton, Protected Payment Services Ltd (PPS) describes its gateway as independent of acquiring banks and says it is connected to over 50 of them. PPS says this gives a business control over who provides its merchant facilities, and that it can help find an acquirer if needed. It also works with resellers such as independent software vendors and web development businesses.

Its ecommerce gateway offers a hosted payment page, hosted payment fields or a direct integration. A virtual terminal takes phone payments and creates payment links. Security tools include 3D Secure 2, address and card security code checks, velocity checks and blocking by country or card, with Kount fraud screening as an optional add-on. PPS also offers tokenisation, recurring payments and a merchant dashboard for refunds and reporting, and says its gateway is PCI DSS level 1 compliant.

The company was incorporated in January 2017 as Protected Trust Services (Legal) Limited and took its current name in May 2022. Protected Trust Services (PTS), a trust account membership business for travel companies, says it has partnered with PPS to offer individual merchant services to its members and calls PPS its in-house partner. Companies House shows PTS stopped being a controlling shareholder of PPS in August 2022.

Protected Payment Services on Travelgenix

Protected Payment Services is one of the payment providers Travelgenix supports. If you already use Protected Payment Services, you can connect your own account and keep the rates you have.

Customers pay at checkout on your website. You set deposit rules in Travelify, our mid office, so customers can choose a deposit or the full amount, and each booking arrives in Travelify with the payment already taken. Online payments come with every plan: Spark, Boost and Ignite.