PayPoint Romania, one of the main cash payment operators in Romania, has announced that it has signed five new agreements across a range of business sectors. The new contracts with Apanova, Electrica Transilvania Sud, EOS KSI Romania, GE Money and Petrom Distributie Gaze will enable customers of the five companies to benefit from the cash payment services offered by PayPoint Romania through its network of branded terminals in neighbourhood stores throughout Romania.
“We are very pleased to be announcing these new contracts with five of the most important companies in Romania,” said Mugur Dogariu, Managing Director, PayPoint Romania. “These new clients, from market sectors as diverse utilities to consumer finance, brings the number of PayPoint’s clients in Romania to 19, almost doubling our client base over the last year.”
To use the PayPoint cash payment service, consumers present a bill or payment request form at a local neighbourhood store with the PayPoint brand displayed. The shopkeeper scans the bill using the PayPoint POS equipment, takes the cash payment and issues a receipt with the payment details after the transaction has been processed The company which issued the bill is automatically sent confirmation that payment has been made. The entire process takes only a few seconds.
“Time is one of the most precious commodities nowadays,” added Mugur Dogariu. “By using PayPoint to manage their cash payments, our clients’ customers are able to save themselves a lot of time and so spend much more time with family, friends and in leisure activities.”
At the same time, the five new PayPoint clients will be able to streamline the bill payment process, allowing them to plan ahead more effectively, have a better understanding of future revenues and optimise their cash flow.
Apanova is the main water services provider in Bucharest and also manages the city’s drainage system. Electrica Transilvania Sud is one of the three branches of Electrica S.A., distributing and providing electricity services to over 1,000,000 customers in the counties of Alba, Brasov, Covasna, Harghita, Mures and Sibiu. EOS KSI is one of Romania’s leading providers of bill and cash-flow management services.
GE Money is the consumer finance division of GE, providing innovative financial solutions for consumers, ranging from personal, mortgage and consumer loans to credit cards and car leasing solutions. GE Money also offers financial solutions for SMEs, corporations, car dealers and mortgage loan brokers.
Petrom Distributie Gaze (PDG) is the gas distribution company resulting from Petrom’s spin-off of its gas distribution operations. PDG has 42 gas distribution operations in the counties of Bihor, Arad, Timis, Gorj, Teleorman, Giurgiu, Ilfov, Arges, Dambovita, Prahova, Ialomita and Buzau.
Since the launch of its bill payment service under the PayPoint brand in August 2008, PayPoint Romania has built an extensive portfolio of clients across a diverse range of service sectors, including utilities, insurance, cable TV and mobile telecoms. Other PayPoint clients in Romania are E.ON Gaz Romania, E.ON Furnizare Moldova, Allianz Tiriac, Enel Energie Doborgea and Banat, Romtelecom, UPC Romania, Telemobil and GDF Suez Energy Romania.
PayPoint also offers top-up services for all mobile operators (Cosmote, Orange, Vodafone, Zapp), for landline operators providing international calls and for Internet Service Providers. PayPoint clients in this sector include EasyComm, Nobel and Worldtelecom (Number One). For Focusat, PayPoint provides electronic recharge vouchers for DTH service users.
At the end of March 2009, PayPoint had 5,702 terminals in Romania, up 42% compared to March 2008. 2,000 of the terminals were PayPoint branded.
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