The ARC Travel Agency Service Fee (TASF) program provides you, an ARC-accredited entity, the ability to generate additional revenue by accepting credit cards as the form of payment for your travel-related professional fees, either via your GDS or using our tool - Agent's Choice.
Pricing: See pricing below. For more information, please complete an information request form or call +1 703.816.5106. You must be an active ARC participant to sign up for this program.
Highlights
By signing up for TASF, you can:
- Accept any major credit card, including UATP, as the form of payment for your professional fees
- Settle your transactions electronically through ARC via your weekly IAR sales report
- Access the past 39 months of your transaction data through ARC Document Retrieval Service
- Process TASF transactions via your GDS, independent of your GDS using Agent's Choice, or both; the choice is yours
Processing Options
ARC-accredited entities who signed up for TASF can submit their service fee transactions via a GDS, online using ARC Agent's Choice, or a combination of both. The charge for using each is the same, and you can switch to or add on one or the other at any time.
GDS (Fully-accredited agencies only)
By entering a few simple commands, you can assess your fee to your clients' favorite credit card for the travel-related services you render.
To get started using the ARC TASF GDS product, please complete a Product Sales Request and you'll be contacted by ARC via e-mail.
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Agent's Choice (all ARC participating agencies)
ARC Agent's Choice is an easy-to-use Web-based tool for processing travel-related transactions through ARC, independent of your GDS. It is an additional or alternative method to processing and settling your service fees via your GDS through ARC.
- Accept payment for any major credit card, including UATP
- Independence from the GDS to process travel-related transactions
- One-stop settlement, since all transactions are part of your weekly IAR Sales Report
- Availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any computer with Internet access
- Dedicated support staff to assist with application or transaction-related questions
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Processing Limits
The number and value of fees processed by ARC are limited to the following for Agent's Choice users. GDS users are limited to similar amounts.
| Verified Travel Consultant (VTC) | Fully-accredited |
|---|---|
| Limit: $10,000.00 / transaction $25,000.00 aggregate / week | Limit*: $10,000.00 / transaction $25,000.00 aggregate / week *without prior authorization |
- Convenience - ability to accept any major credit card from the customer
- One Stop Settlement - all transactions are settled via IAR
- Save Time & Money - single source to review and settle these transactions as part of the weekly IAR settlement process
- Efficiency - submit a service fee transaction through the convenience of your GDS
- Availability - Use Agent's Choice to submit service charges online without any additional application installations
- There is a one-time enrollment fee of $25 (this fee is waived for VTCs) which provides access to both processing options - via the GDS and via ARC Agent's Choice.
- There is a quarterly subscription fee of $23.99 that is assessed per TASF-using location (per IATA/ARC number). If you go a quarter without issuing a TASF, there would be no subscription fee for that quarter.
- Each transaction is assessed a 3.50% processing fee with a minimum charge of $0.70, whichever is greater.
There is a one time enrollment fee of $25.00, and each transaction is assessed at 3.5% with a minimum charge of $0.70. There is a quarterly subscription fee of $23.99 that is assessed per TASF-using location (per IATA/ARC number).
Each transaction is assessed at 3.5% with a minimum charge of $0.70. There is a quarterly subscription fee of $23.99 that is assessed per TASF-using location (per IATA/ARC number).
Agent's Choice is an easy-to-use, Web-based application that allows you to process service fees independent of a GDS. It is an additional, or alternative, method to the GDS-based service fee processing program.
No. If you're currently using TASF, you do not have to pay the $25.00 enrollment fee to use Agent's Choice, you simply need to sign up. (The same per transaction and quarterly fees still apply.)
