As the world continues to come to terms with the COVID-19 crisis, Wirecard has united with mobile payment specialist Stampay to help restaurants and retailers expand their services by offering cashless delivery and takeaway options.
The contactless payment options offered by Wirecard via the payment platform stampayGO enable SMEs to quickly and easily begin offering its customers safe takeaway and delivery service.
Kilian Thalhammer, Executive Vice President Product Management at Wirecard commented: “We are convinced that merchants and customers will appreciate the advantages of the two payment options Scan&Pay and Click&Pay in the long term as well. For merchants, this opens up the possibility of strengthening customer loyalty even more by means of a simplified customer journey.”
There are two ways for customers to pay. With the first option, Pay-by-Link (Click&Pay), customers receive a payment link via familiar channels such as WhatsApp, SMS, e-mail or social media, and can pay for their order upfront. Pay-by-Link is available worldwide and is an important component of Wirecard’s international COVID-19 initiative.
There are two ways for customers to pay. The first option is via Pay-by-Link (Click&Pay), which utilises channels such as WhatsApp, SMS, e-mail or social media.
The second option, Scan&Pay, allows customers to conveniently pay for their order upon receipt, either at their front door or when picking it up from the restaurant, by scanning a QR code generated on the merchant’s smartphone.
For merchants, the payment solutions are easy to install: they do not need new payment terminals, checkout systems or a website. With the integrated technology from Wirecard, stampayGO can be easily set up with any smartphone.
Peter Wieser, Managing Director of C. Wieser Gastronomiebetriebs GmbH added: “We are very grateful to Wirecard and Stampay. With stampayGO, we have started to process contactless and cashless payments for our deliveries without a card terminal, using our existing smartphones, all in a very short time span. By doing so, we can protect our customers and employees’ health in this very challenging time for us all.”
Retailers and end consumers benefit on several levels. Contactless payments are more hygienic than cash or card terminals that require PIN input. Moreover, they can be processed quickly and easily and do not require the installation of an app.
Joachim Sedlmeir, founder and CEO of Stampay concluded: “Wirecard is the perfect partner for us because we are both pursuing a common goal: Making payments smarter day by day. Stampay GmbH has no access to the users’ banking and payment data. The data is processed exclusively via Wirecard as a certified and globally operating payment service provider with the highest security standards. For Stampay, security is a top priority.”
