Payment Solutions

PAYMENT SOLUTIONS

Payment Processing

Our team provides you with the right payment solution with the best possible service, security, and savings to fit your needs.

AscentPay

Provide more convenience and no-risk payment finance flexibility for your guests to book now and pay later with monthly installments.

AscentZeroCost

100% compliant solution to reduce your credit card fees to almost zero.

Cryptocurrency Payments

Easily accept cryptocurrency payments through an API integration or through a virtual terminal. Easy to use and low cost option to accept a variety of digital currency.

Integrated or Virtual Gateway

Our gateway services provide lodging software developers the ability to easily integrate payment processing or use as a stand-alone virtual terminal for secure payment acceptance with the best support in the industry.

Payment Pages

We provide hosted, customizable payment pages that allow you to provide your guests with a flexible and secure payment channel directly from your existing website.

IDVerify

IDVerify powered by EMV 3DS security can dramatically reduce the burden of fraud chargebacks for merchants, saving them money, time, and frustration. EMV 3D Secure allows the merchant to receive authentication, at the time of the transaction, that the identity of the person paying for the vacation is the actual cardholder.

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Industries Served

INDUSTRIES SERVED

Vacation Rentals

We provide the best credit card processing for vacation rentals thanks to more than 20 years of payment experience in this space.

Campgrounds & RV’s

Over 20 years of experience in lodging payments, allows Ascent to provide campgrounds, RV resorts, and companies specializing in RV rentals with the best options in payment processing.

Corporate Housing

We help streamline your operations and collections processes with solutions to improve your cash flow.

Property Management

Innovative processing solutions tailored for both residential and commercial property management, designed to simplify and streamline operations.

Independent Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts, and More

With more than 20 years in alternative lodging processing, we can find the right payment solution to fit your customized needs.

Event & Equipment Rentals

Ascent provides Event and Equipment Rental companies safe, secure and reliable payment processing technology.

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Why Ascent

WHY ASCENT

About Ascent

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Integrated Software Solutions

Our integrated gateway works within a diverse list of software platforms and provides our clients with the seamless payment solutions they need to successfully grow their business.

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PARTNERSHIPS

Industry Partners

As an independently owned payment processor specializing in vacation rentals, property management, event & equipment rentals, and related industries, we believe that being a good partner means together we provide strong, efficient, and scale-able solutions specific to those industries.

Partner Benefits

We provide payment regulation expertise, innovative FinTech solutions, the highest level of security concerning data breaches, and customized chargeback and support services for the top software providers in the industries we serve and the leading merchants in those industries.

Developers

We focus on providing the best, most secure payment processing services available to the property management, vacation rental/lodging, and the equipment & event rental industries working with several gateways and offering customized options based on need and industry.
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Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat does Fiat mean?

From a Latin term meaning an official decree, fiat currency is a form of payment that has value because it is backed by a government resolution. Fiat refers to money that is mainstream, legal tender, of any denomination, and issued and backed by a federal government. Examples of fiat is money in denominations of US Dollars (USD), Euros (EUR), Canadian Dollars (CAD), British Pounds (GBP), Australian Dollars (AUD), Yuan, etc.

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