If your payment processor finds that the card is not valid, or if the charge is declined, the following will occur automatically: It is not until the reservation is confirmed and brought through the ThinkReservations Channel Manager that the credit card information is sent to your processor to validate the card and if applicable, charge the deposit. Then Expedia sends the reservation information to ThinkReservations and it is created in your account. Rather, Expedia checks whether or not it appears to be a credit card number. When an Expedia Hotel Collect reservation is made, Expedia does not verify the credit card. Please reach out to Expedia if you would like to opt out of this program. The reservation in Expedia Partner Central will alert you if this is the case. A feature with Expedia allows guests to book last-minute reservations without a credit card. There are also instances where a 'Hotel Collect' reservation doesn't have a valid card. Please reach out to them for more details. If you are willing to accept additional risks, it may be possible for your payment gateway or processor to relax some security features to allow EVC cards to be retained. Therefore, your payment gateway or processor will prevent ThinkReservations from retaining EVC cards unless it's a same-day reservation.

Generally, payment gateways and processors will not retain cards that are not valid.

These cards are not valid until check-in. If the reservation is ' Expedia Collect', then that means that an Expedia Virtual Card (EVC) is created for the reservation.

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