Amadeus B2B Wallet powered by AirPlus
The perfect companion to your Virtual Cards
What is the Amadeus B2B Wallet?
The Amadeus B2B Wallet is a virtual card payment system that focuses on the optimization of security and reliability and further simplifies payments to travel providers. It Is easy to use and comes with an increased credit limit offered by AirPlus. Additionally, it features an integrated mid-office feed that enriches statement quality with supplementary information.
About Outpayce from Amadeus
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What are the advantages of integrating your AirPlus Virtual Cards into the Amadeus B2B Wallet?
Increased automatization
By integrating virtual credit cards into your booking platform and payment system, you can automate the payment process and reduce manual errors and delays. You can also automate invoice reconciliation and thus save additional resources.
Improved expense control
With virtual credit cards, you can individually set rules and limits for each transaction, for instance concerning the card's validity period, the authorized currency, or the permitted limit. This allows you to always keep your spending under control.
More security
As virtual credit cards are created exclusively for certain transactions and have a specified validity period and a permitted limit; the risk of fraud is reduced. Virtual credit cards are ranked as highly secure and are therefore SCA-exempt.
Simplified travel management
Virtual credit cards simplify your travel booking management by giving you access to bookings, customers, suppliers, surcharges, business rules, and payments in real time.
Save time and work more efficiently
As virtual credit cards are generated directly in Amadeus, you can make bookings seamlessly in the program in which you are already working...
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Implementation steps of the Amadeus B2B Wallet:
Are you interested in the integration? Please contact your AirPlus Account Manager.
We need the following information from you to get started:
- Estimated volume
- Office ID
- Framework-Number
- Name and address of your travel agency
- Currency in which you want to create cards
- DBI Fields (reference fields)
- Alias (if you have multiple frameworks)
How can I create an AirPlus Card in Amadeus?
This short demo video shows step by step how to create a virtual card in the Amadeus B2B Wallet:
To create an AirPlus Virtual Card in Amadeus, enter the following command:
| For merchant category flight, hotel, restaurant, or other |
| VCN/NEW/EUR200.00/ACC-ALIAS/ADD/IK-123456/PK-901355/NM-SMITH JOHN/FT-GROUPTRIP MAROKKO |
| For merchant category train |
| VCN/NEW/EUR200.00/ACC-ALIAS/ADD/IK-123456/PK-901355/PN-SMITH JOHN/DD-23AUG24 |
| For merchant category car rental |
| VCN/NEW/EUR200.00/ACC-ALIAS/ADD/IK-123456/PK-901355/DR-SMITH JOHN |
| After you confirm your entry, you will immediately receive your virtual card with all the data required for payment. You will find an explanation of the shortcuts and further input prompts in the next section. |
Shortcut Lexicon
The following shortcuts can be helpful (further shortcuts can be found in the Amadeus manual)
| VCN | Virtual Card number |
| NEW | Ceate a new card |
| EUR200.00 | Currency and limit |
| ACC | Account Code (must be defined beforehand) |
| ADD | Prefix for additional DBI |
| IK | DBI 1 (must be defined beforehand) |
| PK |
DBI 2 (must be defined beforehand) (up to 9 DBI fields possible) |
| NM | Name field (name that should appear on the card) |
| FT* | Free text (Merchant categories hotel, flight, restaurant, or other) |
| DD* | Departure Day DDMMMJJ (Merchant category train) |
| PN* | Passenger Name (Merchant category train) |
| DR* | Driver (Merchant category car rental) |
*You can choose from various prefixes in the individual merchant categories, which you can find here. The prefixes listed above are examples.
FAQ
Here you will find frequently asked questions and answers
Yes, every card created can also be viewed in the AirPlus Portal and can be looked at or downloaded as a PDF at any time. However, the generation takes place in Amadeus without you having to log into the Portal.
When generating cards in Amadeus, you can use the DBIs that you have specified in your framework agreement with AirPlus - therefore the same DBIs that are available to you when generating cards in the Portal.
Use is limited. AirPlus Virtual Cards can be used for the following services: flight, hotel, train, restaurant, rental car, parking, travel agency services, transportation services, and other travel services.
In principle, nothing happens because the card is only charged when the merchant charges it. However, if you know that you will not use your card in the future, you should block the card in the Portal. The cards are valid for one year from the time they are generated.
Everybody who has an Amadeus license can create cards for the specific Office ID of your travel agency.
No, you can generate as many cards as you like. However, your travel agency has a total volume limit. As soon as this limit is reached, you cannot create any more cards.
Yes, AirPlus Virtual Cards can be created up to a maximum of €50,000 per card.
This varies depending on your country. Please contact your AirPlus account manager.
AirPlus Company Account for business travel pre-trip expenses
Billing cycle |
Daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly – flexible to suit your needs |
Payment terms |
Up to 28 days settlement period after invoicing |
Additional Data |
Up to 9 additional data fields, e. g. cost center, employee number |
eBilling |
Transaction and settlement data in a variety of formats: CSX, ATX, EDIFACT, LARS, XML, CDF3 |
Foreign currency & exchange rate |
Any charges incurred in currencies other than EUR will be converted into EUR based on the preceding day’s Master card® International / Europay exchange rate |
Security |
The AirPlus Company Account is a ghost account and known only to your travel manager and travel department. The setup essentially eliminates the risk of fraud. |
Insurance |
Public transport accident cover and travel accident insurance are included as standard. |
