Ticket Restaurant sneaks into your mobile

We can now forget about carrying our wallets when we go out to lunch during working hours, because Ticket Restaurant® Ticket joins the most avant-garde means of payment, in Spain, allowing you to pay for your lunches with your mobile device.

In the country with the most smartphones per capita in the world, according to a study by Back Market, and the fifth most time users spend on their mobiles, according to other research from Statista, payment through the telephone terminal becomes a convenient and practical solution for citizens, an opportunity that Edenred, as part of its commitment to staying ahead of trends, has been able to build on more than 40 years of innovation.

For this reason, the leading prepaid cards and vouchers company has chosen Spain as its country of origin. -among the group's 42 companies worldwide- as the first place where Ticket Restaurant® can be used with Google Pay, a simple and secure payment system developed by Google, which makes Edenred a benchmark in the digitisation of the social benefits for workers.

«With this new milestone in the history of Ticket Restaurant® we continue to demonstrate that we are working every day to bring innovation to our market, improving the experience of our users without forgetting the security we have always known..» Pierre Gagnoud, General Manager of Edenred Spain.

How does the Ticket Restaurant payment work?® with Google Pay?

The mechanism to enjoy the advantages of this new payment method is simple and is operational in all the countries of the European Union. NFC-enabled, non-rooted Android system terminals (KitKat 4.4+).

Ticket Restaurant users® who want to use their smartphone to pay for business meals need only follow these simple steps three easy steps to set up your Ticket Restaurant card® in Google Pay:

1. Download the Google Pay application.
2. Enter the data and the card.
3. Enter the code which you will receive by e-mail.

Once the process has been completed, all we have to do is to bring your mobile phone close to the payment terminal associated with Google Pay, forgetting about the card.

To show you how simple the process is, we leave you with a video tutorial on how to set up the Ticket Restaurant® card on Google Pay.

Advantages of Google Pay

In today's highly connected world, you are more likely to forget your wallet or keys when you leave the house than your smartphone, making this modern payment system a very practical solution.

But in addition, the union of Ticket Restaurant with Google Pay offers users another set of benefits benefits:

• Security: Google Pay does not send your actual credit or debit card number when you make a payment, but uses a virtual account number assigned to your account, keeping your card details safe and secure.
• Protection: Using the Android device manager, you can immediately lock your smartphone, change the password or delete personal data from anywhere, which is very useful in the event of loss or theft.
• Comfort: It is common to always have your smartphone to hand, so this new payment system will make it easier to pay for your meal without having to look for your card in your wallet. All we have to do is bring the unlocked device close to the terminal, without the app having to be open.
• Simplicity: With Android Pay we won't have to enter our card details every time we make a payment.
• Usability: Android Pay can be used at millions of merchants worldwide, wherever contactless payments are accepted.

In addition, this pioneering form of payment of Ticket Restaurant® maintains all the inherent advantages of this product in any format, The EU has a number of advantages, such as tax savings for workers and companies, or the ability to boost employee motivation.