Berlin, February 17, 2025: Payrails, a payment technology company, supports Flix, a global travel-tech-company transforming long-distance travel with its extensive network of affordable, sustainable, and tech-driven transportation services, to enhance Flix’s payment operations. By integrating Payrails’ enterprise-grade platform, the collaboration optimizes checkout experiences, streamlines transactions, and strengthens fraud prevention, enabling Flix to scale efficiently across global markets while advancing its mission to make sustainable travel more accessible.
Flix’s vast network of 5,600 destinations and 81 million passengers in 2023 requires a robust, adaptable payment solution to support its expansion and ensure localized payment experiences. Payrails facilitates integrations with local payment processors and methods, ensuring passengers can easily pay using their preferred options. By reducing complexity and enhancing accessibility, the partnership enables a seamless checkout experience.
Payrails’ modular payment system optimizes authorization rates, automates workflows, and enhances transaction efficiency across key regions such as Europe, North America, and Türkiye. It also supports Flix’s continued expansion into South America and India. With smart routing, transactions are directed to the optimal processor, while automated retries and fallback mechanisms ensure reliability and business continuity.
As millions of passengers rely on Flix’s services, secure and compliant transactions remain critical. Payrails provides a robust and secure infrastructure—trusted by publicly listed global companies—to protect transactions and ensure compliance to industry standards. Its fraud prevention product integrates real-time risk management tools to minimize fraud exposure and reduce chargebacks, strengthening Flix’s payment ecosystem and ensuring a secure travel booking experience for passengers.
Daniel Fürholzer, Lead Expert Payments at Flix, emphasizes the importance of a strong payment technology partner: "Partnering with Payrails feels like having a team that’s fully invested in our success. Their deep payment expertise, data-driven approach, and innovative mindset help us build scalable solutions that support Flix’s growing global customer base. Together, we’re not just improving payments—we’re creating a seamless, future-ready customer experience.”
Orkhan Abdullayev, CEO and co-founder of Payrails, highlights the company’s mission alignment with Flix: “We are proud to support Flix’s vision of transforming mobility and making sustainable, accessible travel a reality. Payments should be an enabler of growth and competitive advantage. By delivering a flexible, modular solution that adapts to Flix’s needs, we empower them to create frictionless payment experiences for customers across different geographies."
As Flix operates globally, Payrails strengthens its payment infrastructure by optimizing payment operations, enabling customers to transact easily with their preferred payment methods, and reducing time-to-market. Together, they continue to co-develop solutions that enhance the checkout experience and address the industry’s evolving challenges.
About Payrails
Payrails is the next-generation modular payment operating system empowering high-growth global enterprises. Designed to simplify and scale payment operations across 200+ countries, Payrails enables leading brands like Puma, Careem, and Vinted to optimize and automate financial workflows through a unified platform. By eliminating complex in-house infrastructure, it transforms payment challenges into strategic opportunities, empowering businesses to thrive in the digital economy.
About Flix
Flix intends to transform the collective transport sector by offering sustainable and affordable long-distance bus- and train travel solutions in more than 40 countries across four continents through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Kamil Koç, and Greyhound. With its asset-light business model and innovative technology platform, Flix, launched in 2013, swiftly established a market-leading position for long-distance bus travel in Europe, North America and Türkiye and is rapidly expanding further into South America and India.
Driven by increased awareness for sustainable travel, Flix is committed to achieving Net Zero operations in Europe by 2040 and globally by 2050. To assess its progress within a scientifically recognized framework, Flix established near-term targets for emissions reduction with the Science Based Targets initiative.
While Flix manages the commercial side of the business such as network planning, pricing, operations control, marketing and sales, quality management and continuous product development with a data-driven approach, trusted Flix partners conduct the daily operations. The innovative combination of Flix's technology and sales platform with traditional passenger travel has turned a European start-up into a leading and globally expanding travel tech company.
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