PRISM UTILITY VENDING SYSTEM (UVS)
Overview
The Utility Vending System (UVS) allows Utility Companies to manage Prepaid Vending to Standard Transfer Specification (STS) Electricity, Water and Gas meters in a turnkey solution.
Features
Partners
- EasyPay has a proven track record of over twenty years.
- Offering a nationwide footprint with secure payments at a variety of retail networks, with over 100,000 payment points.
Use the Easypay Mobile Application for Vending.
Use the Easypay Mobile Application for Vending.
Benefits:
- Enterprise-grade security, reliability and functionality, using STS certified devices.
- Easy integration with point-of-sale, token distribution and smart meter head end systems using an easy to use high-level interface.
- Upgradeable to support the IEC 62055-41 Edition 3 (STS600) specification using the High-Level Security Module (HLSM). Included are the new security features as well as TID rollover.
- Host it yourself or let us pay you by collecting your tenants’ prepayments in advance and paying directly to your bank account.
- Free! Do zero setup and maintenance costs appeal to you? Within South Africa and neighbouring countries, we offer a solution called Software as a Service (SaaS) from a UVS hosted at our sister company, EasyPay in Cape Town.
- Token sales are available at all EasyPay outlets, including those in neighbouring states.
- No setup costs, no maintenance costs, merely manage your customers and meters and let us collect money for you.
- No hassles about technology upgrades, TID rollover, and license cost – these will be taken care of.
- The EasyPay service includes a Mobile App.
Utility Companies
- The UVS has been designed with the large user in mind, typically municipalities and hosted vending sites.
- It has the ability to integrate with payment and distribution networks.
- Utility companies deploying STS certified prepaid meters use the UVS to manage their meters, tariffs and customers.
- As the solution is meter independent, utilities have the freedom to choose from their preferred meter suppliers without fear of changing their vending system.
- It can be configured to support many independent utilities, each with their unique access and management interface.
- By partnering with Mobile Operators, we offer utility companies the utility vending Platform as a Service (PaaS).
- The utilisation of existing distribution channels alleviates infrastructure headaches while ensuring maximum distribution reach to the consumer.
- Use preferred meter suppliers without changing vending systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How does vending occur and will this replace the current system?”
A: The system will replace the existing system.
- Vending can be done in many ways.
- For installation in another country, a level of integration with the infrastructure should exist in the country of deployment.
- The sales distribution system Virtual Top-Up (VTU), initially developed for mobile network operators for prepaid airtime top-ups, has since been adapted for electricity, water and gas.
- The VTU supports nodes for integration to ATM’s, web pages, terminals, USSD, for example.
- These are not necessarily supplied, yet they are supported.
- In South Africa, mobile applications for vending are used which need not be linked to local banks.
Q: Can the EasyPay vending system support block tariffs?
A. The EasyPay utility vending system can support block tariffs.
- To use different tariffs on the same SGC, different Tariff Indexes are allocated to the meters which requires a key change on the meter.
Q: Which system should I choose?
A. Various systems can be purchased and operated independently, with licensed software.
- The standalone systems are suitable for cash sales or integration with a payment system. You pay a license per transaction. There are low and high-speed versions available.
- Alternatively, a hosted system at EasyPay may be used, that is integrated with the retail and banking footprint. There are no upfront costs; however, approximately one thousand meters are required to sign up and access to the ‘Private Utility’. You need to be a Supply Group Code owner for any of the vending systems, meaning one sub-vends on behalf of property owners. The municipal bill is settled from income collected on their behalf. The rate varies depending on the number of meters and is a percentage of the sale.
STS Prepayment Solutions/
Payment (EFT) HSM Solutions
+27 31 267 5500
6 Sookhai Place, Westville,
Kwazulu-Natal,
South Africa
info@prism.co.za
STS Prepayment Solutions/
Payment (EFT) HSM Solutions
+27 31 267 5500
6 Sookai Place, Westville,
Kwazulu Natal,
South Africa
info@prism.co.za