PayPoint retailers in the South East of England are benefiting from the decision by two of the region’s water suppliers to enable their customers to pay their bills at PayPoint.

South East Water Ltd serves around 2.1 million households in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire with 565 million litres of drinking water a day, while Veolia Water South East provides around 43 million litres of water a day to approximately 158,000 customers throughout Folkestone and Dover, together with surrounding rural areas, including Romney Marsh and Dungeness.

Both companies are promoting PayPoint as a payment channel, encouraging their customers to take their bar-coded bills to any PayPoint outlet, where they can pay up to £99 at a time.

“Every household in the South East corner of the country can now pay their water bills at their local PayPoint,” said Mike Igoe, Retail Strategy Director at PayPoint. “We are very focused on driving additional footfall and profits for our retailers and this extension of opportunities for customers to pay their water bills at PayPoint delivers exactly that.

“Not only are we constantly adding new schemes to drive additional footfall into our retailers, such as transport tickets and council tax, but in the last year, we have launched entirely new services – such as our SIMs direct sale proposition, PayCash and Collect+, the revolutionary parcel collection and drop-off service – that appeal to a wider population and, therefore, attract an even greater number and diversity of customers across all income groups into the shops.”

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ABOUT PAYPOINT
PayPoint is a leading specialist payments company with operations in the UK, Ireland, Romania, France, USA and Canada. It handles over £9.5 billion from over 550 million transactions annually for more than 6,000 clients and merchants.

PayPoint processes consumer payments across a wide variety of markets (energy pre and post-payment, telecoms, housing, water, transport, e-commerce, parking and gaming) through its retail networks, internet and mobile phone channels:

Retail networks
The PayPoint branded retail network in the UK numbers over 22,000 terminals located in local shops (including Co-op, Spar, McColls, Costcutter, Sainsbury’s Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of independents). Collect+, a joint venture with Yodel, formerly Home Delivery Network Limited, provides a parcel collection and drop off service at more than 3,400 PayPoint retailers. Its ATM network numbers more than 2,300 ‘LINK’ branded machines across the UK, mainly in the same sites as PayPoint terminals.

In Romania, the branded retail network numbers over 4,800 terminals located in local shops, processing cash bill payments for utilities and mobile phone top-ups. In Ireland, over 500 outlets in shops and credit unions process mobile top-ups and bill payments.

Internet
PayPoint.net is an internet payment service provider linking into all major UK acquiring banks to deliver secure online credit and debit card payments for over 5,600 web merchants. It offers a comprehensive set of products ranging from a transaction gateway through to a bureau service and FraudGuard, an advanced service to mitigate the risk of fraud.

PayByPhone
PayByPhone is a leading international provider of services to parking authorities allowing consumers to use their mobile phones to pay for their parking by credit or debit card. It has contracts in the UK, France, Canada and the USA.

PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004. It is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems, smart technology and consumer service.