Checkout.com partners with Agoda to deliver AI-powered payment performance for global travel

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announces its partnership with digital travel platform Agoda. The partnership delivers high-performance digital payments infrastructure that supports Agoda’s mission of bridging the world through travel.

Checkout.com x Agoda
- Partnership Goal: Deliver AI-powered payment performance to support Agoda’s global travel platform.
- Scale: Agoda connects travelers to 6+ million hotels and holiday properties, plus flights, activities, and experiences worldwide.

Payment Innovation
- Intelligent Acceptance: Checkout.com’s proprietary AI solution optimizes each transaction using real-time network data.
- Reduces failed transactions.
- Improves approval rates.
- Minimizes false declines in complex flows (cross-border, multi-currency, high-volume).
- Network Tokens & Real-Time Account Updater: Enhance reliability and reduce friction in global payments.
- Virtual Card Issuing: Ensures suppliers are paid seamlessly, with 0% downtime record.

Impact on Travel Ecosystem
- For Travelers: Smooth booking experiences across markets and currencies.
- For Suppliers: Reliable, large-scale payments keep the ecosystem running without disruption.
- For Agoda: A single connected platform provides oversight and control of issuing operations.

Leadership Voices
- Agoda: Pitichoke Chulapamornsri emphasized the need for trusted, resilient infrastructure to make travel easy and rewarding.
- Checkout.com: Brian Sze highlighted the importance of AI-driven optimization in powering “digital moments” behind every trip.

This collaboration underscores how fintech and travel platforms are converging: AI-driven payments are becoming as critical to the travel experience as flights and hotels themselves.