The entire site is served up over SSL. Meaning that all of the data entered or viewed is secure by an encryption key that would take over two years to break with the most sophisticated systems of our time. A key is only used for one session and will not survive for more than a few hours.
The credit card page asks for the card number first and then expiration date. Enter both without any dashes, slashes, spaces or any other character that is not a number. The expiration is selected from seperate drop downs in the form of Month / Year. Once the number is entered, the system will automatically set the payment type to the credit card type entered and will be available as a payment type on the guests folio(s). If the contact information is not the credit card holders, the hotel may have trouble collecting on a no-show or late cancellation. Upon submission, the system will check to verify the validity of the card number.
When checking in a reservation, it is important to swipe the credit card in the credit card swipe field. This will insure that your property collects the lower "swipe rate" for credit card discounts. It will save the hotel approximately ½% of the total dollar value settled. Auth & Swipe Rates only apply to customers utilizing the MyCard payment gateway service. Customers who are not using the MyCard service will need to manually process credit cards through their merchant provided terminal. For more information or to setup the MyCard service please contact BookingCenter directly or go to www.bookingcenter.com.