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EU-Pay Service demos
Electronic payments have become a very developed sector in the past few years. A number of emerging technologies have been adopted in order to implement new payment systems to be offered to the market. The main focus of the services that have been already proposed remain however based on the usage of on-line instruments to support financial transactions and the support of credit/debit cards as "electronic money".One of the sectors that has been identified as being capable of offering to the market of electronic payments a large number of transactions is the public sector. Looking at the most recent IDABC annual conference (February 2005), many studies stressed that the public sector and its "customers" are demanding support for electronic payments.
Partner Services:
Comune di Prato
Prato tested services for use by a large number of citizens living in the urban areas of Prato and Pisa. Payment types tested included:
* School services - http://www.comune.prato.it/servizicomunali/scuola/
* Municipality fines - http://www.comune.prato.it/pagamenti/multe/
* Healthcare tickets
* Local taxes - https://pagamenti.comune.prato.it/pagamentibinj/servlet/ICI10S1
* Permits for pedestrian areas
The channels tested for EU-Pay by Prato included supermarket payments via barcodes, and payments online.
For examples of all the on-line payment services please visit: http://pagamenti.comune.prato.it/
For information on environmental tax at supermarkets or at other non-online channels, please see the demo available on this website - http://www.eu-pay.org/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=14
Communautè d'Agglomeration Perigourdine
In CAP, EU-Pay was trialled for payment of school transportation services. The channels used by CAP were mobile phones and the Internet. Results from surveys showed that families in the CAP region would be keen to pay for school transportation at the supermarket as well as the channels being trialled. Therefore, CAP is in talks with Auchan, a national supermarket, to trial EU-Pay in their shops in the future.
For more information on CAP's pilot, please visit: http://www.lacap.fr/eupay/eupay.php
To view the CAP service, please visit: http://www.lacap.fr/eupay/login2.php
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield City Council worked with the Sheffield Credit Union to test payments to their system via a specially created kiosk, available in shops, community centres, doctors' surgeries and other important local spots. In the future, Sheffield is keen to trial payments at supermarkets and online, and would aim to integrate the payment system into the Council's back office system.
To find out more about the Sheffield pilot, please visit: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/eupay
For a demo of EU-Pay services in Sheffield, please see the demo available on this website - http://www.eu-pay.org/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=14
Saarbruecken
The City of Saarbruecken, Germany joined the EU-Pay project to evaluate additional payment channels for the public. It concentrated on the use of mobile phones for parking payments and internet payments for GIS data delivery on demand payable in time with credit card or debit payment. The integration in the back office system of the PA was completed and EUPay had a platform able to integrate all standard payment systems.
To find out more about the Saarbruecken pilot, please visit: http://www.saarbruecken.de/layouts/rathaus_politik/content.jsp?jsessionid=E7CEA7382A634F61B44138519C22FF5A&kontext=Kontext_10125&auswahl=5535
and click on mehr Infos by the EU-Pay logo.
Varna
The Bulgarian partner - Varna Technical University - implemented as part of the validation of the EU-Pay services an Internet WEB based channel for payment of students' semester fees. The service was aimed at demonstrating both ability for optimization of the university administration operations and potential for further development and widening of E-payment services in the national economy. The channel was designed and operated in strict compliance with the national banking and accounting standards. Accumulated experience from this pilot was further used in implementing wider range of EU-Pay services through other institutions and corporate units.
An example of the service may be seen on http://eupay.mis.bg/index.html?/l1/eu-pay/index.php~main
Below is a link to the receipt service demo:
- EU-Pay Receipt Verification Service (multilingual)
Published on: 2006/11/20
