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.

On-site Property Management

We designed our innovative processing solutions with on-site property management in mind to help make operations easier and more straightforward.

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.

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Why Ascent

WHY ASCENT

About Ascent

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What People Are Saying

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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 the only independently owned payment processor in vacation rentals, we believe that being a good partner means together we provide strong, efficient, and scale-able solutions specific to the short-term rental industry.

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 reservation software providers and the leading property managers in the alternative lodging space.

Developers

We focus exclusively on providing the best, most secure payment processing services available to the property management, vacation rental, and alternative lodging industries.
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Payment Processing Interchange

Interchange, Part 3: 11 Ways to Lower & Offset the Costs of Accepting Guest Payments

From coast to coast, the many different ways guest payments are collected have a significant impact on a vacation rental property manager’s Profit & Loss statement. Depending on how the business is run, the credit card expense line item often weighs in as the third most costly expense after wages and taxes. While much effort is spent on...

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Payment Processing Interchange

Interchange, Part 2: Interchange and Other Processing Fees

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Payment Processing Interchange

Interchange, Part 1: The Anatomy of a Guest Payment

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Payment Processing PCI

Weighing The Cost of PCI Certification

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Chargebacks Video

Chargeback Prevention & Preparedness: Fraud Chargebacks | How to Fight a Fraud Chargeback: The Ascent Video Series (#8)

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Chargebacks Video

Chargeback Prevention & Preparedness: Fraud Chargebacks | How to Stop Fraud before it Begins: The Ascent Video Series (#9)

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Payment Processing General

Red Flags in Merchant Processing Contracts

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General

Our Specialty Customer Service is Second to None

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Chargebacks Video

Chargeback Prevention & Preparedness: Chargebacks for Technical Reasons: The Ascent Video Series (#7)

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Interchange

Spring 2022 Interchange Updates and News

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