PCI Booking
“Can an outsourced PCI tokenization vault become the universal payment orchestration layer for travel and other card-not-present industries?”
Founded2016
HQBlanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland
IndustryInfrastructure / Payments
The story
PCI Booking spun out of an online faxing company (InterFAX) when the team realized hotel reservation faxes containing card data created a PCI compliance problem worth solving as its own product. Launched PCI Shield in 2016 for travel, then broadened into a universal payment gateway and tokenization platform. In 2018, when the faxing parent was acquired, PCI Booking was spun out as an independent business. The company later launched Orchestra, a payment orchestration brand extending the same tokenization infrastructure to non-travel verticals.
Product timeline
2016
Released first iteration of PCI Shield for the travel industry· pivot
2017
Processing more than 2M cards per month· banking
2018
Parent faxing company acquired; PCI Booking spun out as standalone business· pivot
2021
Processing nearly 6M cards per month· banking
2024
Launched Orchestra sister brand extending tokenization tech to other industries and payment orchestration· pivot
Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by PCI Booking
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
1 layer disclosed in PCI Booking’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Accounting gap: none