Way2ride is available for iOS and Android smartphones. The app enables riders to pre-load payment information and preferred tip amounts. Once inside the cab, passengers can pay at any time with a tap of their phone. Digital receipts are stored in the app and are accessible on the Way2ride website.
Way2ride uses VeriFone’s patented Zoosh sound-based technology to check passengers into their ride, allowing for transmission of payment information through the cloud. Way2ride is VeriFone’s commercial deployment of the Zoosh technology, which uses the speakers and microphones of smartphones to exchange encrypted data between devices, allowing app developers to unlock the potential of non-NFC smartphones to deliver single-tap functionality alongside their NFC services.
Way2ride is built on VeriFone’s open API cloud platform, which enables developers to create apps with payment, messaging and other value-added services leveraging VeriFone’s mobile commerce network. VeriFone’s open API cloud platform currently supports taxi and for-hire vehicle implementations.
In recent news, VeriFone Systems is set to make electronic payment systems available for the new class of for-hire vehicles (FHVs) established to increase service to upper Manhattan and the New York City outer boroughs.
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