Submitting a complaint about Booking Holdings Financial Services
As a BHFS customer, you have the right to share feedback and submit a complaint about the services you're dissatisfied with if you feel that BHFS has not met your expectations. Please let us know your concerns so that we can address them as quickly as possible. Whenever you raise a complaint, it’s our responsibility to investigate and resolve it.
Before submitting a complaint about BHFS, check if you’re a BHFS customer. Read this article for more information.
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Raising a complaint
You can securely raise a complaint by sending us a message via your extranet inbox or calling us. Here’s how:
- Log in to the extranet
- Click on Booking.com messages, then select See contact options
- Under Property details, click on Other, then select See all contact options
- Choose Message to write to us or call us using the phone number listed
You can also raise a complaint via our dispute resolution centre
- Follow this link to our dispute resolution centre
- Enter your property ID, name and contact info, then select the topic Commercial and product related
- In the Message field, write a detailed explanation of your complaint and mention BHFS – the more information you add, the better we can understand and quickly resolve your concern
- Click Send, and a member of our team will get back to you as soon as possible
Providing us with details about your complaint
When contacting us about your complaint, please provide as much information as possible, and tell us your expected outcome. If you’re unsure about how you’d like us to resolve your concern, we’ll advise you in the best way possible.
Please include the following details in your message:
- The name you used in your BHFS Know Your Partner form
- Your property address
- A clear and concise explanation of your issue(s)
- Details on how you’d like us to help
- Attachments of any relevant letters or documents
We may need extra information from you to better understand and resolve your complaint. In this case, we’ll contact you using the phone number you have listed in your extranet.
What happens after you submit a complaint
Once submitted, we’ll do our best to resolve your complaint immediately. We always aim to address your concerns without delay, but sometimes it may take longer to investigate your case. If this is the case, here's what we'll do:
- We’ll send you a written acknowledgement of receipt of your complaint within five working days.
- We’ll provide you with the name and contact details of the person handling your complaint, and keep you informed of our progress to find you a resolution.
- We'll resolve your complaint within 15 working days. In exceptional circumstances, such as if something outside our control causes a delay, we'll email you about what we're doing to find a solution and when you can expect to hear from us. In this case, we expect to find a resolution within 35 days.
What to do if you’re unhappy with our final response
If you’re not happy with our final response – or if we’re unable to resolve your complaint within 35 working days from when you first contacted us – you can bring your concerns to your local Financial Ombudsman Service. This is a free and independent institution that settles complaints between consumers and businesses which provide financial services.
If you’re in Ireland, you can contact the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO):
- Website: www.fspo.ie
- Email: info@fspo.ie
- Telephone: +353 1 567 7000
If you’re in Finland, you can get in touch with the Finnish Financial Ombudsman Bureau (FINE):
- Website: www.fine.fi
- Email: info@fine.fi
- Telephone: +358 9 6850 120
Partners in Belgium can contact the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA):
- Website: www.fsma.be
- Contact form
- Telephone: +32 2 220 52 11
If you’re not located in any of the countries listed – but you’re in the European Economic Area (EEA) – you can refer your complaint to an alternative dispute resolution service. You can find more information about this on the European Commission’s website.
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