How Should Catering & Retail Industry Embrace Contactless And Clean Payment?

Social distancing has become a new norm nowadays. As more people worry about touching cash will increase infection risk, so contactless and clean payment has gradually attracted their attention and won their favor.

Contactless transactions saw more than 40% growth worldwide in the first quarter of the year, according to Mastercard. If restaurants and retailers want to encourage customer consume, they should be ready for changeable payment method and take some measures to embrace contactless and clean payment.   

How should Catering & Retail industry embrace contactless and clean payment? Different solutions should be taken for different scenes from convenience store, to quick service restaurant or full-service restaurant.

1. Pay At Table

It's a great idea for restaurants that want to offer a contactless payment method for their customers. Guest can online order food at restaurant’s app by themselves, and bill will be automatically associated with their phone. After finishing dining, they only need to show payment code to server, so there is no reason for a server to touch the guest's card or cash.

Telpo portable payment terminal TPS320 with super-agile camera allows it quickly recognize payment code and achieve contactless payment. Besides, it can also be used in online ordering, group purchase cancellation, reservation, online payment, tax registration, takeout and other scenes.  

2. Loyalty Program

It works best for quick-serve concepts like coffee shops, where guests make small, frequent purchases. By showing a barcode or QR code on their mobile device in front of a scanner, customers can pay without touching any shared surfaces. It's convenient and safe. Loyalty program means customers can directly accumulate their membership points and get consumption rewards such as coupons once they pay successfully, which has already taken by Starbucks.

Telpo QR Code scanner TPS508 enables seamless connect 98% of the cashier system on the market, which greatly reduce input cost. Voice broadcast, light supplementary and receipt obtain triple guarantee customer secure, contactless and clean payment.

3. Self-Service Kiosk

Aiming at the in-service business, many fast food restaurants have launched self-service kiosk, which allow customers to complete self-service ordering and contactless payment without contact and communication with the staff.

Burger king uses Telpo self-service kiosk TPS781 is collude with its functions like self-service ordering, QR code payment and face payment such contactless and clean payment method. And Telpo AI cash register C1 even support vioce ordering, truly realizing contactless self-service food ordering.