the company of set off on the journey announced that it will allow for pay products and platform services through Mercado Pago. In addition, they announced that they will not have a purchase limit. The goal is to extend payment tools to users.
The Argentine unicorn entered into an alliance with the company market payment, by the e-commerce giant Mercado Libre, to make it easier for customers to pay for their products.
“We continue to strengthen our payment method to reach more market segments and provide greater accessibility so that more and more people can enjoy the experiences of their dreams”
explained Paula Christi, General Manager for take off for Argentina and Uruguay.
The new payment format will have no purchase limit and is in addition to the announcement from March this year, when payment through cryptocurrencies was enabled. “The initiative is the third innovation in means of payment that we are presenting this year in Argentina, adding to payment by bank transfer through DEBIN and with cryptocurrencies through Binance Pay and Inswitch,” added Cristi.
From Mercado Pago, Jonathan Stern, The Senior Commercial Director of the company pointed out: “We continue to expand our commercial proposition demonstrate that e-commerce and digital services provide opportunities and tools that adapt to the needs of companies, while at the same time we bring a new payment solution so that users can easily and conveniently buy products and services from the journey they want.
To carry out the transaction, the user must have a Mercado Pago account and have credited funds. Despegar’s goal is to simplify the purchasing process by providing greater accessibility.
Store opening
The decision to incorporate new forms of payment also comes hand in hand with the expansion that the company is carrying out this year. Recently, it announced the opening of physical stores in Argentina and Brazil.
The travel company is strengthening its omnichannel strategy in both countries with the opening of stores, so much own as well franchisees, focusing on technological innovation
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“We incorporated physical stores to get closer to more customers. at the hand of one unique tourist services inventorythat most advanced technology of the market and best travel advicenow boosted by in-store service, we are taking a step forward in our strategy”, stated Cristi.
In addition, he pointed out that the company’s plan is to achieve “so that more Latin Americans can travel, for this reason we are not only focusing on our offer and attention, but we are also looking better financing and prices so it is possible to travel through the more than 150 economic agreements that we have throughout the region”.