26 September 2017

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.

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

The mechanism for enjoying the benefits of this novel payment method is simple and is operational across all 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 app.
  2. Enter the data and the card.
  3. Enter the code what will you receive by email.

Once the process has been completed, all we have to do is to bring our 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 your Ticket Restaurant® card on Google Pay.

Advantages of Google Pay

Nowadays, given how highly connected we are, it's more likely you'll forget your wallet or keys when leaving the house than your smartphone, so this modern payment system becomes a very practical solution.

But in addition, the union of Ticket Restaurant with Google Pay offers users a series of other benefits:

  • Security: Google Pay does not send the actual number of our credit or debit card when we make a payment, but rather uses a virtual account number assigned to our account, keeping our card details protected and secure.
  • Protection Through the Android device manager, we can immediately block the smartphone, change the password or erase personal data from anywhere, which is very useful in case of loss or theft.
  • Comfort: It's common to always have your smartphone to hand, so with this new payment system it will be more convenient for us to pay for food, without having to look for our card in our wallet. We just need to bring the unlocked device close to the terminal, without the app needing 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.

Furthermore, this pioneering payment method Ticket Restaurant® maintains all the inherent advantages of this product in any format, such as tax savings for workers and businesses, or the ability to boost employee motivation.

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