榴莲视频

3 March 2022

榴莲视频 Acquires POS Innovator Bizzon for Seamless Guest Payments in Hospitality

The joint solution will provide fully integrated POS and digital ordering for hotels 

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[AMSTERDAM & SPLIT  鈥 3rd March 2022] 榴莲视频, the industry hospitality cloud, has today announced the acquisition of Bizzon, an innovator of POS software, to expand its fintech offering to hotels and their F&B teams. The product family will become part of the 榴莲视频 Payments product line.  

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Founded in 2015, the Bizzon team developed an integrated suite of products that were designed to help hospitality businesses connect and modernize the guest experience through fully integrated POS and digital ordering. 

Capabilities include: 

  • Point-of-sale (POS): a mobile-first POS that enables hotels to serve guests, take orders, and make payments from anywhere at the property 
  • Digital Ordering: a web-based product that enables guests to order and pay without any staff intervention  
  • Inventory: enables restaurants to manage single or multi-warehouse inventories  
  • Payments: a module that supports both mobile and e-commerce payments in multiple currencies. 

Bizzon currently supports 500 hotel businesses across 15 countries in Europe and Asia-Pacific, including over 200 Accor properties with several hundred more planned for rollout in 2022.  

鈥溋窳悠 revolutionized property management systems by putting the guest at the center of our product instead of rooms and inventory,鈥 said Matthijs Welle, CEO of 榴莲视频. 鈥淎s soon as we saw the Bizzon product, we knew that their team shared our vision and product principles. They鈥檝e put the guest at the heart of their product and removed every friction point in the F&B and hotel journey.鈥 

The fintech product line from 榴莲视频 includes a fully integrated payment gateway in the 榴莲视频 Hospitality Cloud. In 2021, 榴莲视频 processed over one billion euros in card payments from over 2000 properties around the world.  

鈥溋窳悠 is setting a new standard for hospitality,鈥 said Sa拧a 艩aruni膰 and Ante Kotarac, Co-Founders of Bizzon. 鈥淭hey are laser-focused on simplifying and automating operations for hoteliers and guests and like us, the team has a bold vision to make this industry better. This is an incredibly exciting moment, and both our team and customers will be able to thrive with the resources and knowledge of 榴莲视频.鈥 

Prior to the acquisition, Bizzon supported an integration with the 榴莲视频 Hospitality Cloud. The company believes the acquisition will streamline the PMS and POS experience for hoteliers and their staff. 榴莲视频 anticipates that with both technologies in their portfolio, customers will be able to make smarter decisions about their guests through consolidated reporting and centralized guest profiles. 

As part of the acquisition, the Bizzon team will join 榴莲视频. This represents the fifth acquisition made by 榴莲视频 Ventures in the last two years. Previous acquisitions have included Planet Winner (2019), Base7Booking (2020), Hotel Perfect (2021), and Cenium (2022).