Empowering Indian Hotels with AI-Driven Direct Bookings and Seamless, Secure Payments

New Delhi, India — 9th December, 2025 — RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (NSE: RATEGAIN), a global provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, today announced the integration of its UNO Booking Engine with PayU, India’s leading diversified fintech platform.

The collaboration is a step forward in strengthening India’s Swadeshi technology ecosystem – bringing together two homegrown innovators to deliver AI-powered booking and digital payment checkout experiences designed for Indian hotels and travelers.

Delivering a Modern, AI-First Guest Experience

As India’s hospitality industry accelerates its digital transformation, hotels are increasingly focusing on building direct booking channels that offer speed, personalization, and trust.

RateGain’s UNO Booking Engine helps hotels turn website traffic into confirmed bookings through AI-powered personalization, real-time parity assurance, 3-step checkout and smart upselling, making every booking more profitable.

With the addition of PayU, hotels can now offer guests a secure, seamless payment checkout experiences with multiple localized payment options, including UPI, wallets, cards, and Pay Later. The integration ensures end-to-end transaction security and reliability while reducing friction during checkout—helping hotels increase conversions and strengthen guest trust.

”Hotels today need more than just a booking-engine-led traveler experience – they need an ecosystem that builds guest trust and drives profitability,” said Ashish Sikka, Business Head, UNO Platforms, RateGain.
“Our partnership with PayU strengthens that ecosystem by bringing together seamless checkout, secure payments, and a frictionless booking journey, helping hotels turn every direct interaction into a trusted, revenue-generating moment.”

“Travel has always been a key focus area for PayU, and over the years, we’ve built deep expertise in powering payment experiences for the travel ecosystem through our dedicated and scalable solutions. This collaboration is strategically aligned with our vision of empowering travel businesses to maximize their revenue potential and build stronger, more profitable customer relationships”, said Vineet Sethi, Chief Growth and Marketing officer, PayU. “Together with RateGain’s AI-powered booking engine and our industry-leading PayU checkout that offers 100+ payment options like UPI, QR, EMIs, pay later, etc., we’ll enable hotels of all sizes to offer direct, frictionless, and secure booking experiences to their customers.”

Built in India, for the World

The integration reinforces RateGain’s commitment to building AI-powered, Swadeshi innovations that are trusted globally while delivering to Indian hospitality needs.
Together, UNO Booking Engine and PayU provide hotels with a future-ready direct booking technology that helps them stay competitive and self-reliant in a rapidly evolving travel landscape.

About RateGain

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality that help organizations increase revenue, acquire guests intelligently, and retain them efficiently.
The company works with 191,000+ hotels and 500+ partners worldwide, offering end-to-end solutions across rate intelligence, distribution, direct booking, and guest experience.

For more information, visit www.rategain.com.

About PayU

PayU, India’s leading diversified fintech platform with Prosus as an investor, operates businesses that are regulated by the Reserve Bank of India and offers advanced solutions to meet the digital financial services needs of customers (merchants, banks, and consumers).

PayU provides payment gateway solutions to online businesses through its cutting-edge and award-winning technology and has empowered 4.5 lakhs+ businesses, including India’s leading enterprises, e-commerce giants and SMBs. It enables businesses to collect digital payments across 100+ online payment methods such as Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Net Banking, EMIs, pay-later, QR, UPI, Wallets, and more. It’s a preferred partner in the affordability ecosystem, offering the maximum coverage of issuers and easy-to-implement integrations across card-based EMIs, pay-later options and new-age cardless EMIs. PayU offers e-commerce brands best-in-industry success rates while ensuring a seamless checkout experience.

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