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Finextra
2 days ago
- Business
- Finextra
Selfbook chooses PayPal as agentic commerce partner
Selfbook has tapped PayPal as its commerce partner to make paying for hotels faster, smarter, and fully embedded in agentic experiences. 0 Travelers who checkout with PayPal and Venmo will gain access to exclusive rates, generating meaningful savings, and driving better conversion for Selfbook's hotel customers. Selfbook's hotel customers will be featured on the Offers tab in the PayPal app. Additionally, PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) will be offered for many hotel brands that integrate with Selfbook. The partnership will advance travel booking into the age of agentic AI by leveraging conversational AI to help customers book and pay. Selfbook and PayPal are both partners with Perplexity, allowing consumers to search, book and pay for hotels within the chat. As consumers increasingly rely on AI agents for shopping and making plans, it's critical that enterprises have the ability to make the checkout experience seamless through an agent chat. Enterprises that offer PayPal and Venmo at checkout typically see increased conversion rates. PayPal has shown to help increase conversion by an average of 84%1 among customers who pay online for travel. Selfbook's hotel customers will soon benefit from this. Selfbook will integrate PayPal, Venmo, and PayPal's BNPL solutions as payment options within hotel booking experiences, providing consumers with greater choice and enhanced flexibility at checkout. Selfbook's credit card processing will move to PayPal's Enterprise Payments. 'Travel is one of the biggest purchases people make online. With PayPal, we're uniting two things travelers care about most: trust and value,' said Khalid Meniri, CEO of Selfbook. 'What was once a multi-step process will be a streamlined, AI-powered checkout—with exclusive rates and low friction.' 'AI is fundamentally changing how consumers plan and pay for their vacations and getaways,' said Alex Chriss, President and CEO of PayPal. 'Together with Selfbook, we're embedding hotel booking in the new ways travelers are planning trips with agentic chats like Perplexity. PayPal is thrilled to bring agentic commerce solutions to travel.' For hotels, this partnership represents a powerful shift towards direct distribution to consumers through offers within the PayPal app. Through PayPal Offers, PayPal users can access exclusive rates from Selfbook's network of hotels, which do not incur commission fees—significantly enhancing their profitability. This strategy allows hotels to control their brand narrative and pricing while leveraging PayPal's extensive network of millions of authenticated, digitally savvy consumers.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Selfbook Picks PayPal (PYPL) to Power AI Hotel Bookings With Perplexity
Selfbook is teaming up with PayPal (PYPL, Financials) to bring AI-powered hotel booking into the mainstream. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Sign with PYPL. The companies announced Monday that Selfbook will integrate PayPal's payment toolsincluding Venmo and Buy Now, Pay Lateracross its hotel checkout experiences. The move is designed to support bookings through conversational AI agents like Perplexity, which both companies already partner with. The deal will allow travelers to book directly through chat and pay with PayPal, with access to exclusive rates. Hotels using Selfbook will be featured in PayPal's Offers tab, gaining exposure to millions of active users. Selfbook CEO Khalid Meniri called the move a streamlined, AI-powered checkout experience that merges trust and value. PayPal CEO Alex Chriss said the collaboration reflects how AI is reshaping travel planning. For hotels, the shift offers commission-free bookings and more control over pricingwhile tapping PayPal's global user base. This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
PayPal named commerce partner by Selfbook
Selfbook has tapped PayPal (PYPL) as its commerce partner to make paying for hotels faster, smarter, and fully embedded in agentic experiences. Travelers who checkout with PayPal and Venmo will gain access to exclusive rates, generating meaningful savings, and driving better conversion for Selfbook's hotel customers. Selfbook's hotel customers will be featured on the Offers tab in the PayPal app. Additionally, PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later will be offered for many hotel brands that integrate with Selfbook. Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter Published first on TheFly – the ultimate source for real-time, market-moving breaking financial news. Try Now>> See the top stocks recommended by analysts >> Read More on PYPL: Disclaimer & DisclosureReport an Issue Nvidia, Microsoft, AT&T, PayPal, Walmart: Major Stock Moves! Buy/Sell: Wall Street's top 10 stock calls this week Perplexity AI Reports Explosive Growth as Users Look for Browser Alternatives 'Single-Digit Penetration': PayPal Stock (NASDAQ::PYPL) Rallies as Venmo Fights Back MasterCard, PayPal partner on One Credential Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Travel Daily News
3 days ago
- Business
- Travel Daily News
Selfbook chooses PayPal as Commerce Partner
Selfbook partners with PayPal to offer embedded, AI-powered hotel bookings with exclusive rates, flexible payments, and enhanced conversion through agentic experiences. SAN JOSE, CALIF. – Selfbook has tapped PayPal as its commerce partner to make paying for hotels faster, smarter, and fully embedded in agentic experiences. Travelers who checkout with PayPal and Venmo will gain access to exclusive rates, generating meaningful savings, and driving better conversion for Selfbook's hotel customers. Selfbook's hotel customers will be featured on the Offers tab in the PayPal app. Additionally, PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) will be offered for many hotel brands that integrate with Selfbook. The partnership will advance travel booking into the age of agentic AI by leveraging conversational AI to help customers book and pay. Selfbook and PayPal are both partners with Perplexity, allowing consumers to search, book and pay for hotels within the chat. As consumers increasingly rely on AI agents for shopping and making plans, it's critical that enterprises have the ability to make the checkout experience seamless through an agent chat. Enterprises that offer PayPal and Venmo at checkout typically see increased conversion rates. PayPal has shown to help increase conversion by an average of 84%1 among customers who pay online for travel. Selfbook's hotel customers will soon benefit from this. Selfbook will integrate PayPal, Venmo, and PayPal's BNPL solutions as payment options within hotel booking experiences, providing consumers with greater choice and enhanced flexibility at checkout. Selfbook's credit card processing will move to PayPal's Enterprise Payments. 'Travel is one of the biggest purchases people make online. With PayPal, we're uniting two things travelers care about most: trust and value,' said Khalid Meniri, CEO of Selfbook. 'What was once a multi-step process will be a streamlined, AI-powered checkout – with exclusive rates and low friction.' 'AI is fundamentally changing how consumers plan and pay for their vacations and getaways,' said Alex Chriss, President and CEO of PayPal. 'Together with Selfbook, we're embedding hotel booking in the new ways travelers are planning trips with agentic chats like Perplexity. PayPal is thrilled to bring agentic commerce solutions to travel.' For hotels, this partnership represents a powerful shift towards direct distribution to consumers through offers within the PayPal app. Through PayPal Offers, PayPal users can access exclusive rates from Selfbook's network of hotels, which do not incur commission fees – significantly enhancing their profitability. This strategy allows hotels to control their brand narrative and pricing while leveraging PayPal's extensive network of millions of authenticated, digitally savvy consumers.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
PayPal is adding hotel booking within its app, powered by Selfbook
PayPal is partnering with hotel payment provider Selfbook to let users search for and book hotels within the PayPal app. The company said that it will let users pay through PayPal at checkout and offer exclusive discounts to users within the app. Users can also use PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) for select hotels that have enabled the feature. People using the PayPal app will be able to go to the Offers section and search for hotels with filters like travel dates and number of guests. Users will see hotels that use Selfbook's payment suite on these apps, but it is not clear if Selfbook is making its entire catalog available to PayPal users. For PayPal, this is a move to upsell another offering to users within the app. The company said that with its payment products, it has observed an 84% uptick among people who pay online for travel. PayPal also said that Selfbook will also soon integrate the payment checkout products within its workflow outside the app. What's more, Selfbook will use PayPal's enterprise payment suite to power credit card payments for its hotels. Selfbook is also using PayPal as a payments partner within Perplexity, which unveiled a feature that lets users discover and book hotels within the chat in March. "Paying for a hotel has traditionally been the most fragmented part of travel—search one place, book another, pay somewhere else," Khalid Meniri, Selfbook's co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch over email. "With PayPal, we're collapsing all of that into a single flow embedded directly into AI-powered experiences like Perplexity. It's not just more convenient for travelers, it gives hotels a direct line to their guests, better margins through no commission, and more control over their brand," Meniri said. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
