Hospitality Payments
Payment Processing Built for Hospitality
ValPay powers payment processing for restaurant, bar, and venue management software. Tabs, split checks, tips, and pay-at-table: one embedded payment layer built for the pace of service.
Industry Challenges
Why Hospitality Businesses Need Specialized Payments
Restaurants, bars, and venues run payments at the speed of service. Tabs that stay open all night, checks that split four ways, tips that have to land with the right server. Generic processors weren’t built for any of it.
01
Open Tabs & Pre-Auth
A bar tab is a pre-authorization that grows all night and settles with a tip at close. Most processors treat every transaction as a one-shot sale and make tabs a workaround.
02
Split Checks & Shared Tables
One table, four cards, two items shared: splitting a check is routine in hospitality and an edge case everywhere else. The POS and the processor have to agree on every split.
03
Tips & Tip-Outs
Tips ride on almost every transaction and have to flow through payroll, pooling, and tip-out rules. When the processor doesn't carry tip data cleanly, reconciliation lands on the manager.
HOSPITALITY CASE STUDY
How H&L built payments into the POS
H&L builds point-of-sale and back-office software for hospitality venues. Read how embedding ValPay makes the terminal and the till one system, and what the end-of-day looks like when it balances itself. Tell us where to send it.
Solutions
How ValPay Solves Hospitality Payment Challenges
Bar Tab Pre-Auth
Open a tab with a card tap, let it grow through the night, and capture the final amount with tip at close: the full pre-auth lifecycle, built in.
Pay at the Table
Handhelds and QR codes bring the check to the guest. Split, tip, and pay without the server walking the card away.
Tip Handling Done Right
Tip amounts post with the transaction and flow to the POS for pooling, tip-outs, and payroll. No end-of-night spreadsheet.
One Close, One Ledger
Sales, taps, and settlements post to the same ledger. The end-of-day balances itself instead of being explained.
Features
Hospitality Payment Features
Pay-at-Table Handhelds
Tableside terminals for check presentation, splitting, tipping, and payment in one stop.
QR Order & Pay
Guests scan, order, and pay from their phone, built for patios, counters, and high-volume service.
Split Check Support
Split by seat, by item, or evenly across any number of cards without slowing the table down.
Tip Pooling Data
Clean tip data on every transaction, ready for pooling rules and payroll export.
Online Ordering Payments
One payment layer across dine-in, pickup, and delivery orders placed through your platform.
Gift Cards & House Accounts
Sell and redeem gift cards and run house accounts on the same rail as card payments.
Why ValPay
Why Software Platforms Choose ValPay
100%
of merchant processing volume earns your platform revenue share
99.9%
uptime across a globally redundant processing network
1:1
Dedicated account team and integration specialists for every partner
“Hotels feel payments at every step of a stay: the card at booking, the deposit, the folio at checkout. Moving all of that inside roommaster with ValPay took the messiest part of our customers’ day off their plate, and reconciliation went from a nightly chore to a single view. It also turned payments into revenue for us instead of something we referred away.”
Rachel Douglas
CEO, roommaster (formerly innQuest)
Our success stories
Proven success with leading software platforms
Our expertise as software operators means we understand your challenges firsthand. That’s why leading platforms trust ValPay to power their payments with reliability, security, and scale.
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