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Your opportunity to tap into Web-savvy travellers and generate incremental income by selling currency online:

• Enhance your customer offering
• Excellent added value for almost any consumer website
• Quick, easy and low cost to implement

Independent travellers are increasingly buying holidays online. More people use the Web for holiday research, through blogs, consumer reviews and price comparison engines. It’s now possible to book travel using convergent technologies such as digital TV and mobile phones.

With improvements in security and broadband penetration, it’s only natural for such assured users to buy foreign currency online. You can take advantage of this opportunity to gain valuable additional revenue and enhance customer retention with First Rate’s Travel Money Online service.

Satisfy demanding users

Web users know how to get a good deal and will seek out innovative services. Our Travel Money Online application provides your customers with sophisticated ordering and allows flexible implementation to suit your business. It’s ideal whether you’re a retailer with a consumer base or a corporate with a large number of travelling employees.

Easy for your customers

Your customers order currency from a hyperlink on your website and are taken through a simple end-to-end ordering process. They can choose from a range of currencies as notes, traveller’s cheques and our new pre-paid Travel Money Card. It’s possible to order several currencies at one time up to an agreed limit. Payment is straightforward: we accept all major credit and debit cards.

Great support for your brand

Being white label, Travel Money Online can be fully branded to match your website. There are four standard layouts to choose from, with further customisation possible subject to commercial agreement.

In addition, you can provide customers with a marketing opt-in for ongoing communications and promotion, and gather data such the user’s source of enquiry. That way, buying travel money isn’t simply a one-off transaction, but can provide the opportunity for repeat business.

Secure and standards-based

Travel Money Online uses the most up-to-date transactional and Web technologies for ease of use and to protect you and your customers. These include:

• Secure payment through VBV or MasterCard Secure
• VeriSign security for customer peace-of-mind
• Latest data encryption, including 128-bit SSL
• Hashed passwords

Moreover, the application:

• Is compatible with market-leading browsers
• Is DDA compliant
• Supports use without JavaScript
• Does not set browser cookies

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• The security of traveller’s cheques with the convenience of plastic
• Available in euros, US Dollars and Sterling
• Accepted in over a million Visa ATMs and by retailers worldwide

First Rate’s Travel Money Card (available through the Post Office^® since 2006) is a genuine next-generation product in foreign currency. It’s very secure: the card is not linked to a bank account and customers can choose their own PIN. With no overdraft facility, customers can only spend the amount on the card, meaning they can’t run up holiday debts with it.

Equally, the card is handy for budgeting. Customers can add money to the card as they want before their holiday.

They can top up the card by phone from anywhere in the world and top-ups are free on foreign currency cards. Customers also have access to a 24-hour helpline, so if the card is lost or stolen, a replacement card can be sent to their overseas holiday destination within 48 hours (a fee may apply) or posted free to a home address.