Photo: beep card Facebook Page
In an effort to help ease commuters woes – specifically queuing in long lines just to get a ticket to the MRT or LRT, Coins.ph, the leading digital wallet app has partnered with contactless payment provider, beep card, to add a new feature that allows users to reload their tap-and-go beep cards via NFC-enabled smartphones.
To reload your beep cards using funds from your Coins.ph digital wallet, all you have to do is tap the card on the phone, it’s that simple. Just make sure that you have the latest version of the Coins.ph app installed. You can load as low as PhP10 with no extra charges.
Coins.ph is beep card’s first app-based reloading partner, offering the convenience of loading a beep card anytime, anywhere. It’s also a step forward in driving the cashless payment era in the Philippines.
[su_quote cite=”Peter Maher, President and CEO of AF Payments Inc.”]Coins.ph provides beep cardholders the ability to load their cards anytime, anywhere just by tapping their card on their smartphone. This added convenience means no more falling in line to add load during the busy rush hour.[/su_quote]
[su_quote cite=”Ron Hose, CEO of Coins.ph. “]Each day, nearly 2 million Filipinos are forced to wait in long lines to top up their beep cards with cash. With this collaboration, beep cardholders can seamlessly use Coins.ph to load their cards with their phones and make payments anywhere beep is accepted. This solution represents a catalytic step forward in a vision that we share with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas of forging an advanced digital economy by 2020.[/su_quote]
For more information about beep, you may visit their website, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
