PayTo is flying as Bonza becomes first Aussie Airline to adopt the new payment system

PayTo is a new, real-time bank payment solution that allows merchants to initiate payments from their customers’ bank accounts. It is a faster, easier, and safer way to make payments, and it offers a number of benefits for both consumers and merchants.

The benefits for consumers are:

• More visibility: Consumers can see and manage all of their regular payments in one place.
• Control at your fingertips: Consumers can pause, resume, or cancel payments at any time.
• Keep your data private: PayTo uses bank-level security to protect your data.
• A secure way to pay: PayTo is a secure way to make payments online and in-app.

The benefits for merchants are:

• Get paid faster: Merchants get paid faster with PayTo because it is a real-time payment solution.
• Reduce costs: PayTo can help merchants reduce their payment processing costs.
• Improve customer experience: PayTo offers a seamless and convenient payment experience for customers.
• Increase sales: PayTo can help merchants increase their sales by making it easier for customers to pay.

B2Bdigital payments firm and Australia’s largest PayTo provider, Monoova, has been selected by Australia’s newest airline Bonza to offer PayTo’s seamless, fee-free payment option for consumers paying online for their flights or travel booking, without credit card or other surcharge fees.

PayTo continues to emerge as the front-running account-to-account payment solution for Australian businesses and consumers. Previously, POLi was often the preferred low-cost payment option for the travel industry, and a method for many other large organisations to receive direct payments from customer bank accounts.

Now, PayTo corrects for several of POLi’s limitations: it enables fee-free transactions for big-ticket purchases with significantly reduced risk of fraud and chargeback. There’s no need for the customer to share bank login details. It offers real-time notifications and – importantly – instantaneous receipt of cleared and settled funds.

PayTo reduces the risk of fraud and chargebacks by requiring payment “agreements” to be authorised through the customer’s online bank before a first payment is made. These agreements can either be ‘once-off’ or ‘recurring’, the latter allowing for both subscription billing and repeat ad-hoc purchases.

Once an agreement has been authorised, money moves to the business account in seconds, speeding up cash flow by up to 5 days compared to some traditional account-to-account payments. 

PayTo is particularly well suited to support the travel industry due to the regularity of high-value transactions. These trigger large merchant fees for airlines and travel agencies, and surcharges for consumers. High-value transactions are also more likely to be charged-back if funded by cards. 

When transactions are large, both consumers and merchants benefit from instant acknowledgement and settlement of cleared funds to reduce uncertainty as to the success of the transaction and improve cash flow.

Bonza’s pioneering move from POLi to PayTo is likely to be the first of many in the aviation industry, according to Monoova, with corporate Australia becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of PayTo over traditional payment methods.