PayPoint is a leading international provider of convenient payments and value added services to major consumer service organisations in the utility, housing, water, telecoms, media, financial services, transport, retail, e-commerce, gaming and public sectors. It handles over £11 billion from over 600 million transactions annually. The PayPoint branded retail network in the UK numbers over 23,000 local shops (including Co-Op, SPAR, McColls, Costcutter, Sainsbury's Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of independents) with its customers making, on average 10 million visits to its retail agents' stores every week.
Post Office Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Mail Group. With a nationwide network of Post Office® branches across the country the Post Office® network is the UK's biggest retailer. Their history dates back to 1635 when Charles 1 opened up his private mail service to the general public.
Post Office® branches were established originally for the acceptance of mail, but their use expanded to include the payment of pensions and other financial transactions. They now offer more than 170 different products and services, including telephony, financial services, bill payment, banking and travel related products. Post Office Ltd is now the largest provider of foreign currency in the UK and the leading independent provider of travel insurance.
Post Office® services are provided online and by phone in addition to face to face. There are lots of different types of outlets in our network. Including Crown Office branches in city centres, outlets run by subpostmasters that combine a shop with the Post Office® branch, as well as Outreach services including mobile Post Offices®, and services that visit village halls or churches.
Post Office Ltd serves over 21.2 million customers a week who make 31 million visits and approximately 47 million transactions. Approximately 92% of the UK adult population visit a Post Office® branch each year.
Payzone is one of the leading consumer payments and cash distribution networks in Europe. Headquartered in Dublin, it has operations in 6 countries across Europe, processing over 630 million transactions per year on behalf of its clients. These transactions are handled electronically through the Payzone network of over 240,000 points of service (terminals, vending units and EPOS tills) at more than 170,000 retail locations across Europe. Payzone also operates approximately 6,000 ATM cash dispensers in the UK and Germany.
The Company offers a wide range of services including pre-paid mobile phone top-ups, energy pre-payments, bill payments, pre-paid Visa vouchers, local and housing authority payments, pre-paid Visa and MasterCard payment cards, payment vouchers for on-line shopping, gift card and loyalty programmes, transport ticketing, lottery games, parking and electronic road tolling, debit and credit card acceptance, contactless payment solutions and world-wide money transfer services.
