Touch-and-pay Barclaycard launched
August 15, 2007 by admin
Filed under News, News-Credit-Cards
Barclaycard’s new OnePulse, an innovative contactless credit card, already has 1,000 shops in London signed up to accept it.
OnePulse is now all set to be launched next month.
The card’s major innovation is that items costing less than £10 will be able to be purchased in participating retail outlets without customers having to type in their PIN.
Guy Harvey, financial director at resteraunteurs Eat – one of OnePulse’s new clients – said that he was “excited” by the scheme.
“It will help us to eliminate some of the frustrations for our customers, such as queues in the busy lunchtime rush.”
The card was inspired by the Oyster card system, launched by Transport for London in 2003. For the first time, the city’s residents could touch in and out by using smartcards, and were no longer forced to buy paper tickets.
Users of OnePulse will also be able to use the new product as an Oyster card, Barclaycard has previously announced.
The BBC reports that Visa and Mastercards will also be introducing touch-and-pay technology in “certain London locations” from next month.
