Ingenico, a provider of payment solutions, has announced its collaboration with Orange to enable its French customers to top up their accounts via its subsidiary, Ingenico Prepaid Services. Orange called for Ingenico Prepaid Services’ expertise and pay- ment terminals (IP or GPRS iCT250 or wireless iWL280) with NFC embedded technology to test a direct, contactless top-up system for its prepaid customers. A salesman at the POS selects the product desired from the Orange Mobicarte product range after having received payment for the top-up. He/she then asks the customer to scan their tag (sticker or key ring with NFC chip) using the payment terminal. The payment terminal instantly identifies the customer number and forwards the top-up request to Orange, which adds the amount of credit corresponding to this number to the customer’s account in real time. The payment terminal then prints out a ticket containing the transaction number, which is issued to the customer as a purchase receipt.
