Connected to the 3000 purse Alfamart Stores
Cell Phones January 15th, 2010
Card Indosat customer’s cell in the near future could be used as a medium for Micropayment payment instruments throughout Alfamart owned retail stores spread throughout Greater Jakarta area.
According to Chief Marketing Officer of Thunder Siboro Indosat, the institute started today connects the host to host his own database server with electronic payment machines in 3000 Alfamart retail stores in the area.
“Despite the 3000 Alfamart our stores connect host to host, but are only able to purse only have 100 stores in the area of Tangerang. This is purely commercial reasons Alfamart party,” he said on the sidelines IWIC 2009 Grand Final at the Hard Rock Cafe, Jakarta, Thursday (19/11/2009).
My wallet is a payment instrument to use the card (APMK) developed Indosat APMK since obtained a license from Bank Indonesia in late 2007.
Since the technology developed host to host, the purchase transaction through a purse no longer using SMS, but can simply use the tokens as a payment code for shopping at the merchant.
When the test last year, the majority of my purse users are members of the cooperative Indosat, could reach 20 thousand. But now the number dwindled so stay 2500. Indosat own hopes this Micropayment service users could increase again until the end of 5000 so 2009.
“In addition to Micropayment payment, customers can also do cash in, which originally could only be done in the gallery Indosat, now also be done through ATMs of Bank Permata, Bank Prima ALTO Joint Network, and also in Alfamart,” said Guntu
