Thursday, January 24, 2013

Start of pilot project: Smartphone replaces cash

After a trial at the University may soon be paid in catering at the station by mobile phone - JIAYU G2 dual core. The trade will follow.
 
Dusseldorf. Student Linda Ruping and her classmate David Jungblut agree: "The system works great." By smartphone to pay for three months of their bills at the cashier of the lively bistros Ex Libris on the campus of Heine University - the coffee, the cake or the meal.
The company pay cash, a Luxembourg supplier of mobile - THL w7 review, cashless vending, has tested the system since the summer in the capital. "There are in Dusseldorf, the highest use of smartphones," says founder Marcus Becker, so he starts with his colleague Jürgen Wolff right here. In addition, the city is one of the leading locations for mobile technologies. And there were a lot of young people here. The money transfer via smart phone is in the Düsseldorf students also successful. 40 percent of the visitors had the necessary app Bistro (an add-on pack) previously installed.
How it works: After installing (see info box) type in the customer the amount (1.70 euros for a coffee, for example) by selecting "Pay". Thereby a so-called QR code is generated and displayed on the display. This smart phone(THL v12 mtk6577) is held to the reader and the amount from there with "Confirm" transferred. While retail customers so their amounts charged by mobile phone "slide" back and forth, they require a reader dealer. For this transfer to pay cash, according to Becker makers require a fee of 1.5 to two per cent of the amount.
Stockheim starts in late January with eight farms in the station
"This is more economical than the system of payment cards," says Philipp Wichert. The floor manager goes home the same with eight catering establishments such as the Sushi Factory in Central Station at the end of January. Using the new method of payment at the start "250 000 people pass through here every day. . Many of them have the problem that they have not any change boys "Even for the" bad ball "which is supported by floor home in the Rhine terrace, expects Wichert an easier business:" We can no longer keep the change at 3000 guests with car transport. "
If the pilot project at the station just as successful as at the university, wish Becker and Wolff offer the system to the retail trade.

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