{"id":22467,"date":"2025-05-05T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/blog\/?p=22467"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T08:37:16","slug":"ixigo-and-razorpay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/ixigo-and-razorpay\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8216;Where to?&#8217; to &#8216;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8217; \u2014 ixigo and Razorpay Make It Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>We&#8217;re empowering travel for the next billion users.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 19px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.74);\">\u2014 <\/span>Aloke Bajpai, Group CEO, ixigo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born out of a simple idea\u2014to make travel smarter, simpler, and more accessible\u2014ixigo took off in 2007 as a flight search engine. Founded by IIT Kanpur grads Aloke Bajpai and Rajnish Kumar, the goal was clear: fix the chaos of travel booking in India. What started with flights quickly grew into a full-stack travel platform trusted across Bharat. By removing friction, building for local needs, and scaling tech that truly gets its users, ixigo is redefining travel for the next billion Indians.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>ixigo- Your Personal Travel Agent, Right in Your Pocket<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, ixigo is a leading B2C brand in online travel bookings, a travel companion built for Bharat\u2014helping users book trains, buses, and flights in their own language, with features that solve real-world problems like waitlist predictions, offline train schedules, and voice-based booking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We all know that one person in the group who just can\u2019t plan a trip to save their life\u2014too many tabs open, too many options, and zero decisions made. With ixigo, even the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plan-o-phobic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> travellers are empowered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to head to Goa? Book a flight, a train, a bus\u2014sorted. Need a ride to the airport or a cab from the station straight to your hotel- that you also booked on ixigo? Done and done. Powered by AI, machine learning, and smart data science, ixigo has built a platform that\u2019s not just easy to use but almost plans the trip for you. Everything you need for the journey, from door to destination, right in your pocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2HV0Q7HOB0?si=vCSgIm15w6T9PjUw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><b>ixigo Made Travel Simple, Razorpay Cards Made Paying for It Simpler<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At ixigo, booking travel should feel as smooth and exciting as planning the trip itself. When someone\u2019s ready to lock in that long-awaited Goa getaway or a last-minute train home, there\u2019s no time\u2014or patience\u2014for clunky payment flows. ixigo has built a platform that takes the stress out of planning, so why should payments be any different?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Razorpay Cards, ixigo found the right partner to elevate their checkout experience and match the ease of their travel booking flow. Features like<\/span><b> CVV-Less Checkout<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> helped remove unnecessary steps, making the final payment process feel smooth and intuitive for users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Native OTP<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ensured that customers no longer had to deal with clunky redirections to bank pages, significantly cutting down drop-offs and frustration. Together, these features made every transaction faster and more user-friendly\u2014an essential upgrade for a platform that thrives on spontaneity and quick decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a platform built to take the chaos out of travel, <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/\">Razorpay<\/a> made sure the payments didn\u2019t bring any of it back. From planning the perfect trip to making the final payment, ixigo ensures every step feels easy and effortless. And with Razorpay backing the last mile, travelers can focus on where they\u2019re going, not how they\u2019re paying. Smooth journeys, from start to finish.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/m\/bold\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=blog-CTA&amp;utm_campaign=founder-articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22452\" src=\"https:\/\/d6xcmfyh68wv8.cloudfront.net\/blog-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner.png\" alt=\"CTA - Backing India's Boldest\" width=\"860\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner.png 940w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner-768x196.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re empowering travel for the next billion users. \u2014 Aloke Bajpai, Group CEO, ixigo Born out of a simple idea\u2014to make travel smarter, simpler, and more accessible\u2014ixigo took off in 2007 as a flight search engine. Founded by IIT Kanpur grads Aloke Bajpai and Rajnish Kumar, the goal was clear: fix the chaos of travel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":22487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22508,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22467\/revisions\/22508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}