Case Study: Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games achieves seamless worldwide ticketing payments with Payplug

Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games - Customer Case Study

The Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games needed a robust online payment system for its first-ever global ticketing platform for the Paris 2024 Games. The challenge was to create a system accessible to buyers from 178 different countries, capable of handling extreme peak loads of 300 transactions per second, while ensuring security and high acceptance rates. They partnered with payment technology vendor Visa and its banking partner Groupe BPCE, whose division Payplug was chosen to process the transactions.

Payplug implemented a robust and secure payment infrastructure by accelerating the migration of its payment acquiring platform to the cloud. This provided the necessary computing power and resilience against cyber-attacks. The solution successfully processed 3 million transactions with an average acceptance rate of 98%, which was 6 points higher than the market average, and reliably handled the required 300 transactions per second during sales peaks.

Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games