BR-DGE, the breakthrough payment orchestration provider, today announces a strategic partnership with Traveltek, a leading provider of travel technology. This latest partnership adds to BR-DGE's fast-expanding presence among travel companies and booking platforms, highlighting its success in helping them access payment innovations, lower operational costs, and enhance their tech stack.

Under the new deal, BR-DGE’s payment orchestration solution will be integrated into Traveltek’s internet booking engine, iSell. The enhanced offering will enable Traveltek to access BR-DGE's impressive modular payments capabilities, including payment method connectivity, tokenisation, dynamic smart routing and multi-acquiring, and data analytics through a single integration into BR-DGE's platform.

Designed exclusively for the travel industry, Traveltek’s award-winning iSell platform is already used by a significant number of large travel businesses around the world. Giving travel merchants the power to create customised holidays for their customers, iSell provides access to flights, hotels, cruises, tours, and ancillary products directly through the platform in a single transaction.

Securing this latest partnership is a clear indicator of BR-DGE’s remarkable growth over the last couple of years, solidifying its position as a leader in payment orchestration for platform businesses in the travel, gaming and digital goods industries. As many of these businesses look to consolidate different gateways and expand payment method connectivity, BR-DGE enables them to tap into new services and select one or multiple orchestration layers through a single integration, and provide a consistent customer experience across multiple touchpoints.

The partnership announcement also adds to Traveltek’s recent momentum, following its acquisition by Juniper Group last year, its expansion into the United States in 2021 along with the £1.3m in funding that was secured in the same year to further develop its technology. Founded over 20 years ago, the Scottish travel technology company now delivers cutting-edge booking solutions for travel agents, tour operators, and wholesalers of all sizes.

Mal Barritt, CEO of Traveltek, commented on the partnership: “This is the latest in a series of exciting announcements from Traveltek, as we strive to simplify searching, booking and managing leisure travel. BR-DGE is a trusted and industry-leading payment orchestration platform. By integrating BR-DGE’s solution into our own offering, we can provide our merchants with the best possible technologies to support their own business growth.”

The global travel industry shows no signs of slowing, with 68% of people planning to travel abroad in the next 12 months and 84% of people planning to spend either just as much or more on their holidays next year as they did this year, according to ABTA, a trade association for the UK travel industry.

As an independently-owned, vendor-agnostic payment orchestrator, BR-DGE is fast becoming the go-to partner for high-volume enterprise merchants in the travel sector through its modular solutions. Traveltek joins other major travel brands to have selected BR-DGE’s payment orchestration services to provide exceptional end-to-end online payment experiences, connectivity, smart routing, data analytics, and tokenisation, amongst other services.

Tom Voaden, VP Commercial at BR-DGE added: “Global travel is surging. While this trend is great news for the industry, it also puts a lot of pressure on travel platforms, which need to handle vast volumes of bookings and transactions from thousands of touchpoints through a wide range of payment methods with confidence and speed. Platform downtime is not an option. That’s where payment orchestration comes in, and BR-DGE’s solution was designed to solve exactly this issue.

“We’ve seen huge demand recently from travel platform businesses who see the value of using our modular orchestration layers to strengthen their operational capabilities and deliver more value for their end merchants. Securing this partnership with Traveltek means a great deal to us. Together, we are set to provide Traveltek’s merchants with simplified integrations, more interoperability, speed to market, enhanced customer experience and new growth opportunities.”

Bringing together over 400 payment technology solutions in one place, BR-DGE works as an independent, trusted and vendor-agnostic partner for the whole ecosystem, creating value and driving better outcomes for payment providers, their merchants and consumers.

Founded in Edinburgh in 2018, BR-DGE now processes millions of transactions monthly on behalf of high-volume customers spanning travel, ecommerce, gaming and other sectors. In 2024, the company also signed several tier-one merchants, adding c700m annual transactions to BR-DGE’s platform over the course of 2025. With an emerging large order book already in the pipeline, BR-DGE is positioned to become the go-to source and distribution outlet for payments connectivity, routing, and data services.