Hotels
There are two different ways a hotel takes payments with MONEI. Which one applies depends on whether you are a hotelier or the company building the software.
- Your PMS or booking platform already integrates MONEI. Several hotel platforms are MONEI Connect partners — Hotelgest among them — so if you run one of them you accept MONEI payments through it, with no development on your side. Ask your platform to switch MONEI on for your property.
- You build the integration yourself. If you develop the hotel's software, this page's API tokenizes card data pulled from a channel manager, so raw card numbers never reach your system.
The rest of this page covers the second case.
Channel manager tokenization
MONEI integrates with hotel channel managers to securely payment card information from booking reservations. Card data is received, tokenized, and tokens are returned for secure payment processing — your system never handles raw card numbers.
How it works
- Your backend sends a tokenization request specifying the channel manager
- MONEI retrieves card information from the channel manager as a PCI-compliant intermediary
- Card data is tokenized — raw card numbers are never exposed to your system
- Tokens are returned for use in payment creation
Authentication
Add your MONEI API Key to the request header:
Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY
Endpoint
URL: https://api.monei.com/v1/partner/tokens
Method: POST
Common parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
accountId | String | Yes | Your MONEI account ID (UUID) |
sessionId | String | Yes | A UUID identifying the session |
channelManagerType | String | Yes | SITEMINDER or CHANNEX |
Additional parameters vary by channel manager — see the specific integration guides below.
Test Mode
Enable test mode in your MONEI dashboard to use Siteminder and Channex preprod URLs during development.
Supported Channel Managers
| Channel Manager | Response Format | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Siteminder | XML (SOAP) | Integration guide |
| Channex | JSON | Integration guide |
Before you begin
- Create a MONEI account.
- Get your MONEI API Key.
- See the Siteminder or Channex integration guide for channel-specific setup.
Common questions
Can I use MONEI with Hotelgest?
Yes. Hotelgest is a MONEI Connect partner, so a hotel running Hotelgest as its PMS can accept MONEI payments through it. You don't integrate anything yourself — ask Hotelgest to enable MONEI for your property.
Hotelgest is not one of the channel managers in the tokenization API above; that API is a separate, developer-facing feature and currently supports Siteminder and Channex.
My PMS isn't listed. Can I still use MONEI?
Often, yes. The list above is only the channel managers the tokenization API reads cards from, and the partner list is a sample rather than every platform. If your PMS or booking engine isn't named, ask them whether they support MONEI — and if they'd like to, MONEI Connect is how a platform offers MONEI payments to the hotels it serves.