PayByPhone Technologies Inc., which runs mobile-payment programs for parking in half a dozen U.S. cities, is looking for ways to serve relevant offers to users of its system, a top executive with the company said Thursday. n The offers, for example, could include discounts at stores or restaurants near where …
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A Parking Processor Gets into a Political Fender-Bender with Sen. Durbin
A 13-cent fee increase from Parkmobile USA Inc., a specialty payments processor for parking providers and municipalities, drew heavy fire last week from U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, chief sponsor of the Durbin Amendment in 2010’s Dodd-Frank Act that imposed price controls on most debit card transactions. The brouhaha is the …
Read More »Mobile-Payments Providers Add More Spaces for Smart-Phone Parking
Mobile solutions for parking payments received a boost last week with the citywide launch of Parkmobile USA Inc.’s service in Birmingham, Mich., and the addition of new features to QuickPay Corp.’s mobile-payment service for a major parking company in San Francisco. In Birmingham, drivers can now use Parkmobile’s mobile applications …
Read More »Look, Ma, No NFC: Parking Payment Via a Smart Phone App
It was only a matter of time before mobile payments came to the parking industry. And no, the latest application doesn’t depend on near-field communication (NFC), a contactless technology that has been ensnarled in endless disputes between banks and mobile operators and is reportedly being eyed by high-flying players like …
Read More »How Parking Payments Are Going High-Tech
The prospect of combining on one contactless card payments for parking and transit fares would seem like a winner for hundreds of thousands of commuters who drive each morning to transit parking lots and then hop on a train or bus to the office. That was one idea floated last …
Read More »Boston Transit System Tests Mobile Payments for Commuter Parking
It started not even a week ago, but a pilot program in which Boston-area commuters can pay for parking by mobile phone appears to be a hit with riders, according to early anecdotal feedback. “The buzz has been huge with customers, we've only been deployed for four days,” Ian Larrabee, …
Read More »ACH Growth Sparking Membership Surge, NACHA Chairman Says
The rapidly increasing importance of electronic payment channels is behind the recent surge in membership at NACHA-The Electronic Payment Association, according to the Herndon, Va.-based association's chairman. Four financial institutions have joined NACHA as direct members?meaning they get a vote on rules governing the automated clearing house?so far this year, …
Read More »Detroit Takes Deep Plunge Into Card Acceptance for Parking
In a development that represents one of the largest projects so far to replace cash for payment at on-street parking meters, the city of Detroit on Tuesday started accepting credit and debit cards at 175 new multispace meters. The city expects the meters, each of which controls up to 10 …
Read More »Peppercoin Processes Cell-Phone Parking Payments in Las Vegas
Reino Enforcement Technology on Wednesday will begin processing parking fees on 15 meters in downtown Las Vegas through Peppercoin Inc.'s micropayment platform. The meters, which control 150 parking spaces in the city's business district, allow drivers to charge initial parking fees, as well as additional time, to credit and debit …
Read More »Reino Turns on Parking Payments with Peppercoin, SunTrust
Reino Parking Systems Inc. said today it had deployed parking meters in locations around the U.S. that will accept credit card payments from either cards or mobile phones, with transactions processed through SunTrust Merchant Services LLC and Peppercoin Inc. The meters are equipped with card swipes, but users with cards …
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