SumUp is the Berlin based mobile payment company which has opened business backed up by $20 million. SumUp has recently announced nationwide partnership with the mobile app, entitled as Taxi.de- a German taxi hailing app. Paylevel last month has signed up a contract with Berlin Taxi association for trailing its technology and same step is copied by the SumUp.
Taxi.de has not break out numbers of users, yet on Google Play it has reached to 5000 to 10000 downloads in just a month and it is also offering at iTunes for iOS devices.The affiliation among Taxi.de and SumUp is exclusive and it must see that its mobile payment card readers utilized by the taxi drivers all across Germany. It is expecting that taxi drivers will widely accept this app and use the card readers for payment receiving via SumUp.
Taxi.de is in fact not a first taxi related partnership of SumUp. SumUp has claimed that it has already entered in partnership with various regional and local taxi associations of Germany. Moreover, it has claimed that in Berlin it has reached more than 300 taxi companies.
Taxi.de drivers will be bestowed with SumUp card reader free of cost, by paying the 2.75% per transaction fees (on mobile card reader system there will be no monthly charges and other fees).
SumUp card readers will accept payments via debit card, Visa and MasterCard. The Taxi.de driver is equipped with SumUp app so that walk in passengers can pay off through app. This payment feature will be enabled in Taxi.de app by January 2013.
Alex von Brandenstein, the CEO of Taxi.de has talked up about the payment system of SumUp and he has talked about "unimpeachable security credentials" for the reason of partnering with this particular m payment startup.
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