TouchStar On-Board Retail, which specialises in on-board Retail IT Solutions and STS, a payment acceptance software specialist have announced a new strategic partnership.

According to the company, the partnership will deliver an improved payments acceptance capability for airlines, train companies and bus operators. Merchants will now be able to benefit from an enhanced consumer payments experience.

The joint solution will ensure ancillary revenue opportunities are maximised at the same time as introducing new payment options and strengthening data security protection levels.

As part of the partnership, STS’s advanced G8 payments application, that separates payments processing logic from a point of sale application, has been integrated to the TouchStar NovoStar product suite. The NovoStar POS application has more than 5,000 deployments worldwide and is relied on by many international airlines.

INCREASED CHOICE

Patrick Clark, General Manager of TouchStar’s Onboard Division said: “Today, consumers are looking for increased choice on how and where they can pay for goods and services and businesses are needing to boost ancillary revenue streams.

“Payment processing has become an increasingly complex field which is why we are delighted to be partnering with such a highly respected payments specialist as STS.”

STS CEO Steve Turner commented: “Accepting payments on board a plane, train or bus brings many new challenges not faced by high street retailers. These relate to infrastructure, communication and resilience issues as well as bespoke functionality.

“Off-line pin verification, transaction batch support, remote device management and international aspects related to multi country, currency and language all have to be delivered.”