{"id":39464,"date":"2020-07-18T04:31:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=39464"},"modified":"2020-07-18T04:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:31:01","slug":"paymaya-beep-team-up-to-provide-safer-contactless-commute-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/07\/18\/paymaya-beep-team-up-to-provide-safer-contactless-commute-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"PayMaya, beep team up to provide safer, contactless commute for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital financial services leader&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;Philippines partners&nbsp;with&nbsp;beep&#x2122;&nbsp;to provide commuters a safer way to load up their beep&#x2122;&nbsp;cards.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commuters can&nbsp;enjoy a safe and&nbsp;contactless commute by simply&nbsp;purchasing their beep&#x2122;&nbsp;load packages on the&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;app. With this&nbsp;load up method, there is no longer a need for face-to-face interactions with the teller, as well as&nbsp;exchange of cash, which can contribute to the further spread of the virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PayMaya&nbsp;users can&nbsp;choose among&nbsp;three&nbsp;beep&#x2122;&nbsp;load packages on their&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;app: P100,&nbsp;P250, and P500 with an additional P5 convenience fee.&nbsp;To buy a load package on&nbsp;PayMaya, simply follow these easy steps:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1\tTap treats on the app homepage&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2\tSelect&nbsp;a beep&#x2122;\u202fcard load package&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3\tInput your beep&#x2122;\u202fcard number, then tap continue&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4\tWait for a purchase confirmation in-app and via SMS&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5\tHead over to a beep&#x2122;\u202fe-load station and tap your card to receive the load package.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once the beep&#x2122;&nbsp;card is loaded, it can already be used on LRT 1, LRT 2, MRT 3,&nbsp;as well as in Point-to-Point (P2P) and Metro Manila city buses.&nbsp;There\u2019s also a growing number of modern PUVs, among other transportation modes, that accept&nbsp;beep&#x2122; cards as a payment method.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AF Payments Head of Business Development, Sharon Fong said, \u201cWe recognize the challenges and health risks that the daily Filipino commuter faces during the pandemic. We want to help mitigate those health risks by promoting contactless commuting. So instead of paying for your fare with cash that gets passed around by different people, you just tap your beep&#x2122; card. Loading your card is also safer and more convenient when you use cashless options, such as PayMaya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the country reopens, more Filipinos are starting to go back to work and use public transportation.&nbsp;At&nbsp;PayMaya, we\u2019re committed to making&nbsp;cashless options&nbsp;widely&nbsp;available&nbsp;in the transportation sector&nbsp;in order&nbsp;to&nbsp;promote a safer and more convenient&nbsp;commute&nbsp;for the public. Our partnership with beep&#x2122; is just one of the many steps we are taking to achieve this goal,\u201d said&nbsp;Shailesh Baidwan,&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;President.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from&nbsp;PayMaya, commuters can also reload&nbsp;their&nbsp;beep&#x2122;&nbsp;cards&nbsp;through&nbsp;select Smart Padala agents&nbsp;in their neighborhood for a quick and convenient transaction. All they&nbsp;have to&nbsp;do is follow these simple steps:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1\tGo to your trusted Smart&nbsp;Padala&nbsp;agent and ask if beep load packages are available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2\tGive the beep&#x2122; card account number and load amount. You can load P100,&nbsp;P250, and P500.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3\tPay for the load amount&nbsp;with the additional P10&nbsp;service fee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4\tHead over to a beep&#x2122;\u202fe-load station and tap your card to receive the&nbsp;purchased load.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PayMaya&nbsp;has previously announced its support to the directive released&nbsp;by the Department of Transportation and the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board&nbsp;mandating the use of contactless payments in public utility vehicles as part of the measures in what is dubbed as the \u201cnew normal.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In June, it has entered into an agreement ride-hailing app&nbsp;hirna&nbsp;and its partner taxi drivers to be able to accept cashless payments from its customers&nbsp;via&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;QR.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PayMaya&nbsp;has also previously equipped taxi operators in Metro Manila, Cebu, and Baguio with contactless payments, and&nbsp;enabled the first digital bus ticketing system with the Araneta Bus Port for cashless payments through credit and debit cards as well as via&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;QR.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PayMaya&nbsp;is the only end-to-end digital payments ecosystem enabler in the Philippines with platforms and services that&nbsp;cut&nbsp;across consumers, merchants, and government. Aside from providing&nbsp;payments acceptance for the largest e-Commerce, food, retail and gas merchants in the Philippines,&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;enables&nbsp;national and social services agencies as well as local government units with digital payments and disbursement services.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through&nbsp;its&nbsp;app and wallet,&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;provides&nbsp;millions of Filipinos with the fastest way to own a financial account with over 40,000 Add Money touchpoints nationwide, more than double the total number of traditional bank branches in the Philippines combined.&nbsp;Its Smart Padala by PayMaya network of over 30,000 partner&nbsp;touchpoints&nbsp;nationwide&nbsp;serves as last mile digital financial hubs in communities, providing the unbanked and underserved with access to services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital financial services leader&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;Philippines partners&nbsp;with&nbsp;beep&#x2122;&nbsp;to provide commuters a safer way to load up their beep&#x2122;&nbsp;cards.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Commuters can&nbsp;enjoy a safe and&nbsp;contactless commute by simply&nbsp;purchasing their beep&#x2122;&nbsp;load packages on the&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;app. With this&nbsp;load up method, there is no longer a need for face-to-face interactions with the teller, as well as&nbsp;exchange of cash, which can contribute to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}