Electronic Voucher Distribution

Introduction

In any developing nation, mobile airtime, internet calling cards, electricity, water, direct-to-home television, and other services are offered as prepaid card/voucher services for customer usage and convenience.

Situation Analysis

Service provides in the developing countries are neck to neck with competitors in providing various types of prepaid cards at maximum number of outlets at a low cost with efficiency. Most of the providers still use pre-defined scratch cards.

• Scratch cards need to be printed with pre-defined numbers
• Cards need to be distributed across at all the retail outlets
• Possibility of card stock out situations at retail outlets
• Costs of printing and distribution logistics
• Possibility of theft and pilferage of the scratch cards

High Level Solution

A POS terminal replaces the need of printed scratch cards very efficiently. PIN based e-vouchers are now printed from the POS terminal. The vouchers are provisioned to the end- user and printed out by the POS terminals. The printout shows voucher value, expiry date, PIN code, serial number and other customizable details.

A backend Electronic Voucher Distribution (EVD) server allows administrator to import unlimited number of prepaid e-vouchers of multiple vendors belonging to various services with multiple denominations.

These vouchers are sold at retailer stores using POS terminals.

Bottom Line

VISIONTEK POS enabled electronic voucher distribution for prepaid services not only eliminates the possibilities of theft but also reduces the cost and time associated with the physical distribution of printed prepaid scratch cards.

Case Study

Cable and wireless
Distribution of pre-paid vouchers made easy for more

The VISIONTEK Advantage

• Minimize administrative and transaction cost
• Productivity enhancement of staff
• Proven, secure, and scalable solution
• Reduced book record keeping
• Save on stationary and manpower expenses
• Transactions updated real time on central server
• Updated retailer records at central server
• Better Revenue Realization
• Low cost of ownership, and overhead costs

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