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London, UK – 19th May, 2026 – Hands In, the split payment solutions company transforming high-value and group transactions, has announced a strategic partnership with Outpayce from Amadeus, one of the world’s leading travel payments specialists.
Through this collaboration, Outpayce’s extensive network of airline and travel merchants can now integrate multi-card payments, creating new revenue opportunities and offering travellers a more flexible, choice-rich way to complete bookings.
This announcement follows Hands In’s partnership with a Tier 1 Middle Eastern airline, which is set to launch this year, with support from Outpayce from Amadeus. Together, the companies are generating strong interest, reinforcing that split payments are now a truly global solution available across multiple markets and regions.
Through this partnership, airlines using Outpayce as a payment orchestrator will be able to offer split payments across two or more cards directly at the payment page. This functionality reduces payment declines caused by insufficient funds or card limits, an issue highlighted by Ethoca (Mastercard) research and reflected across Hands In’s case studies, which show that over 40% of airline payment declines stem from insufficient funds.
How It Works:
This setup allows travellers to combine personal and corporate cards, debit and credit cards, or even different currencies, ensuring the booking succeeds rather than fails. For airlines, it supports higher-value purchases (e.g., premium cabins) and drives incremental revenue from bookings that would otherwise decline due to insufficient funds.
Through the integration with Outpayce, merchants can now access Hands In’s full suite of split payment solutions with no additional technical effort required. Offered as an alternative payment option within the Outpayce Xchange Payment Platform (XPP), Hands In enables split payments directly through the Outpayce checkout experience, allowing travellers to share costs or split transactions across multiple cards.
“Outpayce sets the tone for how airlines design and evolve their payment strategy and we’re thrilled to contribute by focusing on split payments and decline recovery; capabilities we’ve pioneered in close collaboration with Air Europa over the past few years,” said Samuel Flynn, CEO of Hands In. “Our partnership with Outpayce from Amadeus further strengthens our position as a global leader in split payments, bringing flexibility and reliability to travel merchants worldwide.”
“Travel merchants are under more pressure than ever to deliver frictionless customer experiences, and payments are a crucial part of that journey,” said Damian Alonso, SVP, Head of Product & Partnerships at Outpayce from Amadeus. “As the industry embraces the Offer and Order model, partnering with Hands In allows us to bring true flexibility to the checkout, from multi-card and split payments to decline recovery, helping merchant partners, such as airlines reduce failed transactions and capture revenue that would otherwise be lost.”
As airlines transition to the Offer and Order model, payment flexibility has become a critical dependency rather than an optional enhancement. A single order can represent multiple travellers, products, and payers. Yet without split and multi-payer payment capabilities, airlines are forced to resort to workarounds that undermine the very model they are trying to adopt.
Split payments ensure the financial reality of a booking matches the order reality. Families splitting across multiple cards, groups each paying their own share, corporate travellers combining corporate and personal cards for fares and extras, or loyalty points used alongside cards, all require the ability to support multiple payment instruments within a single order. Without this, checkout friction increases, soft declines due to insufficient funds rise, and high-intent bookings are lost.
Within an Offer and Order environment, split payments also strengthen the audit trail by keeping all payments, refunds, and adjustments tied to one order, rather than fragmented across tickets or documents. This is particularly important as airlines face increasing regulatory pressure to process refunds quickly and accurately, something that remains challenging with manual, document-driven processes.
By embedding modern payment behaviour directly into the Offer and Order lifecycle, this approach allows airlines to progress toward the model’s full promise, without sacrificing revenue, operational control, or customer experience.
Amadeus makes the experience of travel better for everyone, everywhere by inspiring innovation, partnerships and responsibility to people, places and planet. As a wholly-owned company, Outpayce from Amadeus is the next step in scaling the Amadeus payments business with fresh investment in talent, an open API platform and a license to deliver new regulated payment services.
Outpayce delivers smoother end-to-end travel experiences making travel payments simple. Our open platform connects FinTech and banking service providers to the entire travel ecosystem, allowing customers and travellers to easily benefit from new advances in payments.
Outpayce Xchange Payment Platform (XPP) solves challenges in areas like authentication, acceptance and foreign exchange (FX) for travel merchants and gives access to partners that resolve areas like fraud management and authentication to offer a smoother overall experience for the traveller.
In the B2B payments space, Outpayce orchestrates payments with a range of virtual cards, currencies and payment methods to optimize cost, acceptance and agility wherever a travel seller needs to pay a supplier.
Outpayce delivers an end-to-end experience by continuing to work with all Amadeus’ teams and embedding its capabilities in all of Amadeus' applications. The future is travel simply paid.
To find out more about Outpayce, visit www.outpayce.com.
Hands In is a UK-based payments company specialising in split, multi-card, and decline-recovery solutions for merchants in travel, retail, and hospitality. By allowing customers to split costs directly at checkout, Hands In helps merchants reduce failed transactions, recover declines, and increase revenue, all without altering existing payment infrastructure.
Find out more: https://www.handsin.com
