NZ’s first mobile wallet jumps on board with Wellington public transport
“This is something our customers have been asking for."
“This is something our customers have been asking for."
Snapper, whose travel and purchase stored-value card is used widely in Wellington, has launched a mobile phone-based electronic wallet, in cooperation with 2degrees.
Snapper officially launched its smartcards in Auckland this morning and is hoping take-up will match that in Wellington, where CEO Miki Szikszai says the average user makes 300 transactions per year.
Integrated ticketing provider Snapper is to participate in Auckland Transport’s integrated ticketing project, despite appealing the awarding of the contract for the project to rival vendor Thales in 2008.
The Snapper company, which issues the payment card of the same name widely deployed in Wellington, is pitching it against the “chip and PIN” credit card. This is the more secure form of card payment currently being deployed by the banks, to replace magnetic stripe credit and eftpos cards.