Tap-to-pay is popular in the Nordics in the retail space. Helsinki Regional Transport (HSL) wanted to respond to demand for the same effortless payment experience on public transport. By introducing contactless EMV payments, it aimed to make using public transport simpler for residents and tourists.
A modular payments platform built for transit
Accept contactless payments with simple plug-and-play integrations. Future-proofed by design, our flexible platform can adapt as new technologies emerge.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Speed to market
Switch on a contactless pilot within weeks using our cloud-based payment platform and your choice of our pre-integrated technology and banking partners.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Attractive pricing
Littlepay makes contactless acceptance accessible to all transit operators and agencies. Rollout with minimal upfront cost and competitive per transaction fees.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Multiple validator options
Choose from our extensive range of pre-certified, ‘Littlepay Ready’ payment readers. If you don’t find the hardware you want, ask us about a new integration.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Choice of back office
Let Littlepay handle tap aggregation, fare capping and fare calculation; or use our APIs to integrate an external back office to our payments platform.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Revenue protection
With deny list management, automatic debt recovery and a revenue inspection app, Littlepay minimises losses through declines, fraud and fare evasion.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Unified passenger experience
Tokenisation of bank cards and mobile wallets used across our Contactless and Checkout payment channels enables a seamless travel experience.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Passenger-pleasing fares
Our configurable merchant portal allows you to set up a range of dynamic fare caps and discounts to bring tap-to-ride passengers automatic best value.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Why Littlepay Contactless?
Built-in compliance
Littlepay Contactless adheres to high standards of security and data privacy. It is PCI Level 1 compliant, and registered and approved by Visa as a partner for transit.
Why Littlepay Contactless?
We partner with leading names in ticketing technology
Customisable technology stack
Littlepay Control is the nerve centre of our payments suite. We offer a range of configurable products to build your optimal transit payment solution.
Use our merchant portal to track payments, create fare caps and discounts, carry out refunds and collect transaction data.
Analyse performance trends (sales, refunds, declines, debts) and customer behaviour – by zone, route, product or segment.
Give passengers a self-service customer portal (white label or API) to track journeys and transactions, and manage refunds.
Receive daily transaction data sets to feed into business intelligence, and use discoveries to underpin ticketing and payments strategy.
Install our fare inspection app on any NFC compatible, Android mobile device, to check passengers’ cards are verified for travel.
Enable developers to build seamless, secure mobile checkouts for your transit website or app using our e-commerce APIs and SDKs.
Whatever the integration challenge, we have a solution
Adaptable for each city’s need: Helsinki
Transit agency goals
Seamless multimodal payments
HSL selected Littlepay to bring multimodal contactless EMV fare collection to Finland’s capital Helsinki and other cities. Nets, a leading European payment provider, was integrated to Littlepay’s platform to provide acquiring services. Each city selected pre-integrated payment readers of their choice.
Strategic partners:
Transit payment processing:
Littlepay
Payment card reader:
PPT Excellence, Pusatec, Logos
Acquiring bank:
Nets Group
Littlepay products:
Whatever the integration challenge, we have a solution
Adaptable for each city’s need: Bilbao
Transit agency goals
Bilbobus saw tap-to-pay as a way to boost passengers’ confidence in using public transport during the pandemic. It wanted a simple, cost-effective way to introduce contactless EMV fare collection, which would slot into the account based ticketing system provided by Masabi and Gertek.
Smooth back-office integration:
Masabi teamed up with Littlepay to create an ‘out of the box’ solution for accepting contactless EMV fare payments. Masabi’s Justride validators and account based ticketing (ABT) back-office were integrated with Littlepay’s payment platform. ‘Littlepay Ready’ partner Elavon provides acquiring services.
Strategic partners:
Transit payment processing:
Littlepay
Payment card reader:
Masabi
Acquiring bank:
Elavon
Back office:
Masabi
Littlepay products:
Whatever the integration challenge, we have a solution
Adaptable for each city’s need: Porto
Transit agency goals:
Transportes Intermodais do Porto (TIP) and Andante, Porto’s intermodal ticketing system, wanted Porto to become the first city in Portugal to introduce contactless EMV transit payments. The open loop system integrated with existing infrastructure, while remaining adaptable to future technologies.
Culture of collaboration:
TIP and Andante partnered with Littlepay as the transit payment processor. Littlepay integrated with Cybersource (a Visa solution) to connect to Portugal’s largest acquirer, Unicre. A further integration to Card4B’s AFC back office allowed synchronisation with Andante’s fare system.
Strategic partners:
Transit payment processing:
Littlepay
Payment card reader:
Card4B/ACS
Payment gateway:
Cybersource, a Visa solution
Acquiring bank:
Unicre
Back office:
Card4B
Littlepay products:
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