EAT (UK) introduce contactless payments

EAT, a sandwich, soup and coffee shop, has become the first retailer in the UK to introduce a fully integrated contactless payment system. Through using Commidea's Ocius Chip & PIN solution with Contactless technology, Eat will now be able to process both Visa PayWave and MasterCard PayPass contactless transactions for its customers using Barclaycard Business as their Merchant provider.

With 350,000 customers per week and an average transaction value of less than £5, EAT is ideally positioned to benefit from the technology. The first integrated contactless Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) solution has been installed at EAT's Moorgate branch by Commidea and Common Sense EPoS Ltd and enables the retailer to select the method of payment that customers want to use - either cash, Chip & PIN or contactless. Over the coming weeks, the technology will be rolled out to a further 24 London based EAT stores.

Guy Harvey, Finance Director of EAT comments: “Our customers can now benefit from a faster and more efficient way of paying and we are looking forward to rolling this innovative payment solution out to many of our other London shops over the coming weeks. Throughout this project we have received a lot of support from Common Sense EPoS, Commidea and Barclaycard Business and we look forward to developing those relationships as we roll out this technology.”

The integrated contactless product has been built on Commidea's Ocius pre-approved Chip & PIN solutions. It consists of an external contactless card reader, with a large LCD screen to display transaction messages to consumers. This is integrated with two of Commidea's fixed counter top Chip and PIN solutions - Ocius for PCs and Ocius Vx510 - to produce a complete card payment process solution.