Electronic coin purse

Saving function

The electronic coin purse’ is actually very simple, that is, adding a change saving function to the membership card. For example, when a consumer supermarket is looking for 18.68 yuan of change to a customer, the cashier will ask the customer whether to deposit the change into the membership card during the settlement. If the customer agrees, the 0.68 yuan or 8.68 yuan can be directly deposited into the customer In the membership card, only pay the whole money to the customer. When you next spend, customers can first transfer money from this “change wallet” to pay the bill.

Payment functionedit

The implementation of the “three links” project for public utility charges will provide citizens with a variety of options for payment and realize barrier-free payment. The charging agency also promised to open all outlets and counters without restricting the time and window of cash payment. The so-called “three links” refer to the “one-stop service” for public utilities in the banking and financial system, the “one-stop” for cash payment in the telecommunications sector, and the “one-stop card” for the city’s public transportation sector. Public utilities “One-stop payment service” means that citizens can pay all public utility expenses through a passbook, credit card or bank account in any bank in their hands; cash payment “One-stop” means that citizens set up in residential communities through the telecommunications department. Convenience stores, post kiosks and other electronic payment terminals can directly pay public utility fees in cash; the city’s “all-in-one card” means that citizens can use the IC card electronic coin purse for public transportation to quickly and easily realize the functions of paying public utility fees and small consumption, effectively reducing public utility The current situation of difficulty in business payment.

Main benefits

It can store change within 10 yuan. According to reports, the service has been trialled in some stores in September 2008. At that time, it was mainly used to store change less than 1 yuan. Since July 2009, nearly 150 Jingkelong supermarkets can help store change within 10 yuan. “The cash register speed will be increased to 60%.” Previously, the settlement time for a customer was about 40 seconds. If you choose the electronic coin purse, the settlement can be completed in about 10 seconds, reducing the queue time and eliminating the need for change in the supermarket. Troubles. The change stored in the card will not become invalid, and the cashier will also take the initiative to prompt to consume the change in the card first.

“It’s very convenient. You don’t need to bring back a bunch of coins.” Consumers said that the change found in the past is easy to lose, and most of them are “idle” in the piggy bank and rarely used again. In response to the problem of finding change in supermarkets, each supermarket in Beijing adopts different methods. Some supermarkets directly “wipe out change” of less than 1 cent of change, and most supermarkets still implement “accounted settlement”.