The launch
Blastness launched BlastnessPay with Adyen, the Amsterdam-listed payments platform. The product automates the hotel payment cycle from booking through to reconciliation across direct and indirect channels. Blastness dated the release 5 October 2026 and will present the product at the TTG trade fair in Rimini from 14 to 16 October 2026.
The release states BlastnessPay has been installed and operational for several months at major Italian hotels. The product page on Blastness’s own site labels it Coming Soon October 2026. Both statements sit on the same vendor’s site at the same time.
Blastness SpA runs offices in Milan, Rome, La Spezia, Venice and Alghero. Blastness UK Ltd sits in London and Blastness Portugal in Lisbon.
The copy assigned to this desk sits on hospitalitynet.org, which answers HTTP 403 here. Every figure below was read from Blastness’s own pages.
The stated time saving
Blastness estimates the platform saves about seven minutes per transaction. Its own calculation rests on hotels already running the system, and it uses a seasonal 150-room property processing more than 6,400 deposit and final-payment transactions in a year. On that basis Blastness puts the recovered administrative time at more than 90 person-days a year.
That figure is the issuer’s own estimate over its own cases, and the release presents it that way.
What the platform does
BlastnessPay puts online and in-person payments in one environment. Its native connection to the Blastness central reservation system applies each hotel’s own payment deadlines and policies, then runs collections, pre-authorisations and refunds against them. Hotels can build rate products with payment in instalments at no additional cost, and the final payment deadline falls on the check-in or check-out date.
The system also handles the virtual credit cards that OTAs issue. That step removes manual checks and reminders. Payments from the official website, the CRM and the OTAs sit alongside transactions taken on property through POS terminals that carry the hotel’s branding.
Reporting runs through the Blastness Suite, where bookings, transactions and financial flows are managed. The dashboards show transactions, commission costs and reconciliations. Integration with the main property management systems is included, and the release names Oracle Hospitality OPERA. Payment sits inside the booking flow, so the guest is not redirected to another page.
Regulation, fraud and payment methods
The release positions the product against European payment rules. It states compliance with PSD2 and readiness for the requirements expected under PSD3. It also cites Adyen’s Hospitality and Travel Report 2025, in which 35 per cent of the Italian accommodation facilities surveyed recorded a significant increase in attempted fraud over the previous year.
The release cites industry estimates that up to 22 per cent of online bookings are not completed because the guest does not finish the mandatory multi-factor authentication step. The supported methods run to hundreds, including cards, digital wallets, bank transfers and market-specific options such as iDEAL, Pay by Bank, Cartes Bancaires, Swish, Trustly, MB WAY, Multibanco, Discover, Alipay, WeChat Pay and Klarna. Card data is tokenised.
Andrea Delfini, founder and chief executive of Blastness, calls the launch a step that brings payments into the Blastness Suite. Gabriele Bellezze, Adyen’s country manager for Italy, says payments now belong to the booking.
The Adyen scale figures, and one that does not reconcile
The release gives Adyen net revenue of more than EUR 2.36 billion for 2025, EBITDA of over EUR 1.24 billion and processed transactions worth almost EUR 1.4 trillion. It lists Booking.com, Expedia, Hilton, Belmond, Oracle, Uber, Microsoft, LVMH, eBay and Spotify among users of the platform, and reports that over Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 Adyen recognised 95 per cent of unique purchasers as existing customers.
Blastness’s own product page carries a separate processed-volume line for Adyen, reading that it processes $43 billion every year. The two statements sit on the same vendor’s site and do not reconcile. Both are printed here as the vendor’s own copy, and neither was measured independently.