Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has again taken a major leap by allowing international travelers to book e-tickets through a special portal in its website. Now foreign travelers can book train tickets through international credit and debit cards issued outside the country.
The new service is estimated to benefit 3.56 lakh foreign travelers registered who want to book tickets for themselves and for their family members on a regular basis.
India has always been a crucial tourist destination for travelers worldwide. But the lack of facilities like problems in booking tickets due to international cards have often proved to be a barrier. This problem has been finally solved by IRCTC in collaboration with Atom. Atom, an online mobile payment platform has worked closely with IRCTC to build this platform.
Process to Pay through International Cards:
- Select ‘International cards power by Atom’ option present under the ‘Payment Gateway/Credit card’ category at payment page of the website.
- Input all the details that are mandatory for payment such as card number, name, CVV, phone number, Bank name, address etc.
- After submitting all the details, the booking is completed if the transaction is successful and the user gets a positive payment response from the bank/Payment Gateway’s end.
Atom Technologies Limited is an online and mobile payment service provider which offers solutions to more than 30000 merchants and processes a total of $3 Billion annually.
IRCTC is India’s largest e-commerce and e-ticketing Corporation which provides end-to-end travel solutions. IRCTC has always proved to be one of the best reasons for driving travelers into the country. The services that IRCTC provides are endless. It not only manages the entire ticketing solutions for the Indian Railways but also lets users book hotel tickets, airline tickets etc. IRCTC holds the record of selling 15,000 tickets every minute and more than 1.5 Lakh tickets per day.
Commenting on the development, Dr. A.K. Manocha, Chairman & Managing Director, IRCTC said, “ATOM has deployed a robust technology and world class Fraud Protection Mechanism and our technology team has made necessary changes along with them to enable such transactions.”
Explaining the technology at the backend, Mr. Dewang Neralla, CEO, ATOM said, “We are thankful to the team at IRCTC to choose ATOM for their global ticketing window. Our platform is highly scalable and adhering to the latest industry standards in the payment industry and we are sure we would be able to match up to IRCTC’s high technology standards. We have also signed up and integrated our platform with one of the best Risk Managemet platforms globally, Decision Manager from Cybersource, which would enable to manage risk and fraud pro-actively”.
