Payment Handling

General information

The payment handling allows

• The user to enter payments
• The Tour Operator to inform on expected, desired and effected payments

This all in line with the valid data protection requirements.

With a request one might enter one or more payments whereas the responses will inform you on all existing payments (payment positions) of the "booking" at that point in time.

In both, request and response the underlying basic structure/complex of a concrete payment is from PaymentType, with different characteristics for request and response. To enabling the handling of more than one payment with one request/response these are extended by PaymentsRequestType/PaymentsResponseType respectively.

To both, the Payments and the single Payment occurrences the attribute @Collection is attached. In first case to the payments of the booking as a whole, in the second case to the single payment elements appearing in the request/respone.

Attribute

Values / Explanation

@Collection

This is used to inform on the available encashment types supported/allowed by the Tour Operator for the treated operation or the encashment type chosen by the user Agency For agency debiting TourOperator For tour operator debiting; i.e. the customer directely pays to the tour operator OnSite In case the payment must be made on site, e.g. a sports course offered by the hotel Mixed Signals that the Tour Operator excepts any encashement method, which here - for a concrete payment requested - must not be entered. But of course in an according response it might be an important information

If a Tour Operator likes to restrict the payments on a specific encashment type he can do it on Payments level; e.g.: To prohibit agency debiting he can provide "TourOperator" here, with the consequence that all payments must directly be handled between customer and Tour Operator.

In all other cases the Tour Operator can use "Mixed". The user then can decide per payment which encashment to be used, i.e. it also allows the switch of encashment types.

Payment Request

A brief explanation of some information displayed here

Here we show the information only which is helpful for a general understanding. The detailed information on all available elements, attributes, values etc. can be taken from the XSD Documentation.

Attribute	Values / Explanation
@Identifier	This is a unique identifier within one message, which can be used to reference on a concrete payment
@Collection	Compare with explanations given above, please

Payment Response

As extension of the request we here have the following additional information

A brief explanation of some information displayed here

Here we show the information only which is helpful for a general understanding. The detailed information on all available elements, attributes, values etc. can be taken from the XSD Documentation.

Furthermore we don't repeat the information here which is identical with the request part documented above.

Visualization

So we might follow the following workflow:

1. Pricing request / quote This will display the expected payments with a status "open" which at least is the total payable amount of the booking. In that case the

2. Book Within the request you can enter one or more payments With the according response one will receive back the correspondign status from Tour Operator perspective

3. Retrieve / display the booking Herewith you will receive back respectively the latest status of the (entered) payments at that time