Fujitsu and Ingenico join forces on Merseyrail ticketing

Fujitsu, in collaboration with Ingenico, has upgraded UK transport operator Merseyrail’s ticketing systems to enable contactless payment, enabling 63 Merseyrail stations across the UK to offer contactless payment in terminals and manned ticket outlets. Merseyrail will retain the Fujitsu Star point-of-sale ticketing system which it has operated for the past nine years and Fujitsu, in conjunction with Ingenico, will provide 92 iPP320 contactless PinPads and Axis, its proprietary centralised payment proces
April 16, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
5163 Fujitsu, in collaboration with 4840 Ingenico, has upgraded UK transport operator Merseyrail’s ticketing systems to enable contactless payment. This has  seen 63 Merseyrail stations offer contactless payment in terminals and manned ticket outlets.

Merseyrail will retain the Fujitsu Star point-of-sale ticketing system which it has operated for the past nine years and Fujitsu, in conjunction with Ingenico, will provide 92 iPP320 contactless PinPads and Axis, its proprietary centralised payment process solution. The contactless PinPads are fully PCI DSS compliant and were rolled-out across all Merseyrail’s manned kiosk and payment terminals at the end of last year.

Together the two systems allow customers to use contactless global payment cards to simply and securely touch against the card reader, completing the transaction in just a few seconds.
 
Maarten Spaargaren, Merseyrail’s managing director, added: “The total volume of contactless transactions now represents 9.13 per cent of all card payments, with that figure steadily going up. It is great news that more and more people are choosing to pay using contactless, and we’re thrilled to be continually introducing new ways of making the customer experience on our network easier and more convenient.”

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