sQuid eMoney Launches Pre-Pay Contactless Smart Card with Pizza Hut Delivery Stores in Dundee

* Reuters is not responsible for the content in this press release.

Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:08am EDT

DUNDEE, Scotland--(Business Wire)--
sQuid eMoney today announces a new Pizza Hut branded pre-pay contactless
smartcard for customers at stores in Dundee.

The eMoney smartcard uses contactless payment, the latest innovation in
retailing. It combines `pay as you go` to make life easier for customers with a
loyalty email voucher scheme giving customers rewards to redeem in-store.

With three stores in Dundee and Dunfermline now accepting sQuid eMoney payments,
this is an extension to sQuid`s launch across the City of Dundee, where they
already work with Dundee City Council, the National Entitlement Card (NEC), the
University of Abertay and local Dundee retailers.

sQuidcard provides contactless eMoney services in retail and campus networks.
With an ability to provide an available-to-all prepaid card and to deliver
multi-purse technology, sQuid is much more flexible than bank cards or other
loyalty schemes. It has been specifically designed to replace cash transactions
in fast retail environments, and is compatible with transport smartcard
applications including ITSO.

Andrew Pollard, the franchisee owner of the three Dundee stores says: "I am
pleased to be supporting the local community here in Dundee while being among
the first to use this innovative and new payment scheme for our customers. sQuid
means that we can make our customers life easier at the point of purchase, while
rewarding loyal customers with some great deals at the same time as."

All sQuid eMoney cards are accepted at the participating Pizza Hut Delivery
stores and they are also launching with a limited edition branded card, which
can also be used across Dundee. Customers can register their cards online and
then view their transactions, top-up their card and receive special money-off
vouchers by email.

sQuid is a new kind of cash: smart cash. It can be used to pay for those
everyday items, such as your morning coffee, a mid morning snack, your lunchtime
sandwich or evening pizza treat. It saves time, is more convenient than cash,
and helps you keep an eye on where your money is going. sQuid is an independent
eMoney network, you can`t get into debt and you don`t even need a bank account
to use it, making it ideal for everyone.

"It`s great to be working with Pizza Hut in Dundee, following on from some other
successful trials we have undertaken with similar high profile, high street
brand," says Adam Smith, Managing Director of sQuidcard. "We are extending the
use of sQuid across the wider Dundee community and the way that people pay for
everyday items; we`re making life so much easier. By incorporating easy payment
on a branded card for Pizza Hut and emailing personal voucher rewards to
registered card holders, customers will be able to enjoy hassle-free payments
whilst benefiting from some great deals."

About sQuidcard Limited

sQuid eMoney is the alternative to the debit and credit card networks for sub
£10 contactless transactions - a market forecast to grow rapidly, replacing some
of the £200bn cash transactions made each year in the UK.

Deploying its own technologies, with proven contactless payments between card
and reader, sQuid delivers a significantly faster transaction than chip & pin.

sQuid has a multi-purse capability and is compatible with ITSO (transit)
schemes. sQuid operates enhanced security between the card, the terminal and the
payments engine, and allows additional functions to be delivered to the card
holder and the retailer. This enables a sQuidcard to be used not only for low
value purchases but also as a pre-pay transit card.

sQuid eMoney is available in Bolton, Greater Manchester where it complements the
Council`s Bolton Smart smartcard programme. This includes a transport smartcard
service which is being developed with the sQuid and Greater Manchester Passenger
Transport Executive. sQuid is also available in Dundee in partnership with the
Scottish National Entitlement Card.

sQuidcard is a subsidiary of Nucleus Limited, a leading brand, internet and
venturing business.

www.squidcard.com/pizzahut

About Pizza Hut Delivery

In 1958, Frank and Dan Carney had an idea for a great local pizza restaurant in
Wichita Kansas. The small 25 seat restaurant only had room for 9 letters on the
sign… the building looked like a hut… so 'Pizza Hut' was born!

Fifteen years later, we opened the first UK restaurant and since then we've
become the biggest Pizza Company on the planet!

For more information about Pizza Hut Delivery please visit
www.pizzahut.co.uk/delivery





Armadillo Consulting Group
Lloyd Mullenger, +44 (0)203 195 6727
lloyd@armadillocg.com

Copyright Business Wire 2009

Comments (0)
This discussion is now closed. We welcome comments on our articles for a limited period after their publication.