Case Study: HotelTonight achieves 10-second bookings and global expansion with PayPal Braintree

Hotel Tonight - Customer Case Study

HotelTonight is a mobile-first app for discounted last‑minute hotel bookings that quickly became a top-ranked travel app by offering curated hotels and a streamlined booking experience. To maintain that simplicity while vetting properties and writing concise reviews, the company needed a payments partner that was fast to integrate, frictionless for mobile users, reliable and able to scale internationally.

They selected Braintree for its rapid integration, payment gateway and secure credit‑card vault, allowing users to store cards and complete repeat bookings in about ten seconds with just three taps and a swipe. The result was a market-leading fast booking flow, rapid growth from serving 3 to over 30 U.S. cities in a year (and thousands globally in five years), and the ability to scale transaction volume and process international currencies.

Hotel Tonight

Sam Shank

CEO and Founder