CR80News | Cashless colleges: Student IDs turn into payment systems

Friday, May 16, 2008

Student ID cards today mean more than meal tickets or the ability to buy books on campus. They mean wireless hotdog carts. That’s just one of the examples highlighted by CreditCards.com in its report on the new breed of student ID cards.

The “cashless campus” at many universities now allows students to gain access to their dorms or use their campus cards for off campus purchases or to do their laundry, and much, much more. Students expect it because many of them have been using credit cards since middle school. Read more here.

Cashless vendor reaches milestone with JumpStart program

USA Technologies announced that it has delivered more than 20,000 ePort cashless payment terminals to customers under its JumpStart program.

JumpStart was originally launched in January 2010 to help vending operators and bottlers acquire USA Technologies’ ePort EDGE cashless terminal at no cost, paying only a monthly service fee and avoiding the need to make a major upfront capital investment. According to USA Technologies, the ePort EDGE is the only one-piece cashless reader and controller combo on the vending market with PCI Level One compliant security.

FSCJ taps Higher One for student disbursements

Florida State College at Jacksonville has partnered with technology and payment services provider Higher One to help electronically distribute Financial Aid and other refund disbursements to students.

Students travel smart with cashless bus fare, Jamaica

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is pushing for more student commuters to use its smart card system for paying fares on buses, according to the Jamaica Information Service.

Multicard, Rabobank roll out contactless mobile payment stickers

Multicard, a business unit of Identive Group, announced that it has been selected by Rabobank to provide personalization and fulfillment services for the Dutch bank’s latest application of its MiniTix cashless e-payment solution.

Companies tag team university's cashless payment system

Fidelity Systems and Magna Carta Chipcard Solutions has been selected for Keele University to deploy a next generation electronic point of sale solution incorporating cashless payment, according to a BFNNews report.

Colleges enable campus IDs for ATM debit transactions, California

Students at UC Davis and California State University, Sacramento now have the ability to link their campus ID cards to US Bank and Wells Fargo, respectively, according to the Sacramento Bee.

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Cashless colleges: Student IDs turn into payment systems