PayPoint agents can now sell new Orange e-Vouchers

PayPoint retailers are set to benefit from extra mobile top-up sales when Orange introduces new content packs only available on e-Voucher. 

Over 17,000 convenience stores, newsagents, supermarkets and petrol forecourts with PayPoint terminals or PayPoint-enabled EPoS tills can now sell e-Voucher top-ups recently introduced by Orange. The deal makes PayPoint the first consumer-branded payment network to offer Orange e-Vouchers.

Previously, Orange pre-payment mobile phone customers could only buy credit using e-TopUp cards or by purchasing paper scratch cards. In addition, the new scheme guarantees that sales are no longer lost through a lack of available stock, while removing the risk of theft or shrinkage.

Retailer commission on the sale of Orange e-Vouchers will mirror the Orange e-TopUps. Sales of e-Voucher top-ups and mobile content packs is also made easier for PayPoint retailers by their new touch-screen terminals.

Mike Igoe, PayPoint Retail Director, said: “This is great news for our retailers; Orange is a brand in high demand with customers, and e-Voucher is a convenient and easy way to top up. This exciting new development, coupled with the near completion of our touch-screen terminal roll-out, further improves the excellent service PayPoint retailers provide for their customers.

Sarah Fenwick, Orange National Airtime Account Manager added: “E- Voucher is a significant way forward for Orange customers and PayPoint retailers. It’s another way in which Orange are offering customers more choice and flexibility in how they top up their phone. This solution will simplify the top up sales process for retailers and is therefore the ideal platform to drive Orange Top up sales.”

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Enquiries:

PayPoint Press Office
Kate Simpson
020 7553 4104
kate.simpson@mischiefpr.com

Notes to Editor:

PayPoint is a leading payment collection network of over 17,000 outlets used, primarily, for the cash payment of bills and services and prepayments for mobile telephones and energy meters. 

PayPoint began trading in 1996 and initially collected payments through its network of retail agents for its founder client investors, who included British Gas, BT, BBC TV Licensing, London Electricity (now part of EDF Energy) and four water companies.

It now has more than 500 clients including many of the UK and Ireland’s major energy, cable, mobile and fixed line telephony companies. Its blue chip client list also extends to numerous water companies, local authorities and housing associations and a growing transport and travel base. 

PayPoint listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004.