Shift4 Payments and protel North America Announce New Partnership That Brings Integrated Solution to Hotels

Hospitality Offering Delivers Innovative, Complete Payment Solution

ALLENTOWN, Pa. and ATLANTA — August 2, 2018 — (PRWeb) — Shift4 Payments, the leader in secure payment processing solutions, and protel North America, a division of the Germany-based provider of cloud-based and on-premise hospitality solutions, today announced a new strategic partnership. This will deliver hoteliers a comprehensive hospitality offering that combines advanced property management software, highly secure payment processing, and full merchant services.

Shift4’s complete payment solution is fully integrated with protel’s hotel management software — including protel Air and protel On-Premise — to provide hospitality businesses with everything they need to process payments and operate their property securely and efficiently. This includes a secure payment gateway, tokenization, point-to-point encrypted EMV devices, merchant services, support for traditional and new payment types and more. This all-in-one solution combines each piece of the payment process into a single, all-inclusive program for a superior payment experience for staff and guests alike.

“Our revolutionary offering secures and streamlines payments for businesses of all kinds,” said Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments. “This new partnership allows protel North America users to take advantage of these benefits.”

“We’re proud to partner with Shift4 Payments,” said Manfred Osthues, Founder and Managing Partner at protel. “Our hotelier customers already have access to the best hospitality software, and now secure payment processing from this innovative industry leader.”

To learn more about Shift4’s secure payment processing solutions, call 800.265.5795 or email [email protected].

For more information about protel’s hotel management software, visit protel.net or email [email protected].

About Shift4 Payments
Shift4 Payments is the leader in secure payment processing solutions, powering the top point-of-sale and software providers across numerous verticals, including Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Lodging, Gaming, Retail, and e-Commerce. This includes the company’s Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager, POSitouch, and Future POS brands, as well as over 300 additional software integrations in virtually every industry. With eight offices across the U.S. and Europe, 7,000 sales partners, and three state-of-the-art data centers, the company securely processes over 1 billion transactions annually for nearly 200,000 businesses, representing over $100 billion in payments each year. For additional information, visit www.shift4.com.

About protel
protel is the hotel PMS and platform pioneer with over 14,000 hotel customers in 90+ countries. protel’s new enterprise hospitality platform — consisting of an enterprise service bus called protel.I/O and a multi-hotel solution called protel CENTRAL — is a breakthrough for the industry. It’s the only technology that allows hotels with multiple integrations to aggregate all specialist technology behavior to a central level, thus creating a secure, vendor-neutral, open infrastructure to store, access, integrate and use their data from any guest touchpoint in real time. As a result, hotel CEOs, CIOs and CMOs can take control of their technology infrastructure and create best of breed ecosystems that deliver best-in-class guest experiences. protel’s global headquarters were established in 1994 in Dortmund, Germany and U.S. headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Media Contact

Nate Hirshberg
AVP, Marketing
Shift4 Payments
888.276.2108 x1107
[email protected]

Jeremy Armes
VP Marketing
protel hotelsoftware GmbH
+49 231.915.930
[email protected]