A New iPhone App From Travelocity. With Jumio Inside.

We are happy to announce new agree­ment with Trav­e­locity – Hotel Deals by lastminute.com, one of the largest travel com­pa­nies in the world, who inte­grates our ser­vice into their new iPhone app.

The new iPhone app helps trav­elers find great last minute deals on hotel rooms. The app incor­po­rates Jumio’s card scan­ning tech­nology, Netswipe, in the checkout process, adding an extra layer of speed, con­ve­nience and secu­rity for con­sumers who wish to pur­chase dis­counted hotel rooms. Trav­e­locity uti­lized our quick-to-implement Netswipe Mobile SDK to add this func­tion­ality into the new app.

“Hotel Deals by lastminute.com is the first travel app to imple­ment inno­v­a­tive credit card scan­ning tech­nology that uses the iPhone’s camera to read and enter the customer’s credit card infor­ma­tion. This saves on-the-go trav­elers the hassle of tap­ping in the num­bers on a mobile device,” said Jason Fulim­ines, head of mobile, Trav­e­locity. “Con­sumers are offered the choice of entering their card infor­ma­tion man­u­ally or simply tap­ping ‘auto-scan credit card with camera’ and holding their credit card up to the phone camera for auto­mated data entry.”

In addi­tion, our tech­nology val­i­dates the consumer’s credit card which serves as an inte­gral part of its clients’ fraud pre­ven­tion processes. Of course Jumio’s solu­tion is fully PCI com­pliant and uti­lizes 128 bit encryp­tion in card data transmission.

“Jumio and Trav­e­locity rec­og­nize that the mobile con­sumer requires dif­ferent, more stream­lined expe­ri­ences and func­tion­ality to con­duct trans­ac­tions than simply trans­fer­ring the same processes from the big screen to the little screen,” said Marc Barach, chief mar­keting officer, Jumio. “It takes nearly a minute for con­sumers to suc­cess­fully enter their credit card data the con­ven­tional way and we’re able to reduce that time by a factor of 10 to about five sec­onds. This accel­er­a­tion not only cre­ates a more sat­is­fying user expe­ri­ence it also increases cus­tomer throughput at this crit­ical point-of-sale moment.”

App Store reviews.

The first reviews of the app can be found on Apple’s App Store, here are a few exam­ples of cus­tomers’ encour­aging feedback…

“Love the credit card scanner for billing.” (by Rjbass, Sept 18)

“Love the card scan checkout. I hate typing in my cc info.” (by Big­gles­Gate, Sept 13)

“Great app, great deals, luv the credit card pic thing.” (by Chippe­watony, Sept 14)