Wirecard, with its Indonesian subsidiary PT Prima Vista Solusi, and Bank Mega have joined forces to support Carrefour Indonesia with innovative Point-of-Sale (POS) solution and integrated payment capability.
Customers in all Indonesian Carrefour retail stores can pay contactless with their NFC cards, credit cards or debit cards. The system is chip and PIN ready, and enriched with value-added services such as installment payment and loyalty. Wirecard provides the complete technical infrastructure, which is integrated in the front-end store system at the retail stores, as well as the online payment processing over the Wirecard gateway, whereas Bank Mega is credit card acquirer.
Carrefour Indonesia is a nationwide chain of hypermarket stores under the ownership of PT Trans Retail Indonesia. With almost 100 stores in thirteen provinces, Carrefour Indonesia serves approximately 500,000 customers per day, offering groceries, fresh products, electronics, cosmetics, textile and many other consumer products. Siva Kumar, Commercial & Marketing Director von PT Trans Retail Indonesia: "We feel committed to restoring our customers' purchasing power in Indonesia. To make this possible, we offer them a full one-stop-shopping experience through our products and support them with best-in-breed and secure payment technology from Bank Mega and Wirecard."
Bank Mega, a leading bank in Indonesia, operates 344 branches nationwide, including issuing and acquiring credit card, debit card as well as its stored-value contactless payment card "MegaCash". In addition, Bank Mega serves its customers through electronic banking, e-commerce and POS solutions at merchants. "Wirecard Group with its offices on-site and proven track record worldwide is a flexible partner, who is able to offer real end-to-end solutions from a single source", says Mirtha Rahman, Group Head Card Sales & Marketing PT Bank Mega Tbk. "We look forward to working together in further future projects."
"We are proud of working with Carrefour and Bank Mega on this exciting project. Our flexibility and international expertise in providiinternational expertise in providing both, innovative Point-Of-Sale solutions and integrated payment capabilities, were the key criteria for Carrefour and Bank Mega to partner with Wirecard. Our POS platform offers convenience to users and also supports instalment payment plans, loyalty systems and multi-bank routing for various issuers' campaigns," commented Rudy Khowara, Managing Director with PT Prima Vista Solusi.