Zong is all ready to offer NFC based Prepaid Credit Cards for Online Internet payment solution in Pakistan
By all accounts, one of the frequent cellular companies Zong is working on a new project that will enable Pakistani users to buy things online, make payments through NFC and other mediums.
The offer will make the users to make payments over internet through prepaid cards that will go just like credit cards.
These prepaid cards will be presented across the country on each and every Zong’s sales and retail outlet. The customers will also be enabled to load these cards – that the can use to buy things online – through their mobile balance, making the entire process a lot more easy and flawless.
The said offer will effectively resolve the long-running impediment for ecommerce industry of the country by allowing the retailers to collect payments over internet through credit and debit cards, a facility that is not available in Pakistan at the moment.
In the wake of inability f MoIT, PTA, PSEB, PASHA, SBP and local banks, Pakistan – even in 2016 – is likely to be living without any feasible internet payment solution for the dealers in the country.
But the good news is that this is going to change now courtesy Zong which will become the first payment processing operator in Pakistan to provide concrete and virtual prepaid cards that clients will be able to use to purchase goods online and at retail outlets across the country.
The company is also planning to offer the merchants a facility to accept these virtual and physical prepaid cards to immediately get payments for the components they sell online.
As stated by one slide, also produced below, Zong will associate infrastructure partners, such as banks and payment processing operators, to offer:
- Physical prepaid Visa card that can be used at retail outlets
- Virtual prepaid cards for digital web based payments
- NFC SIMs integrated with prepaid card, debit/credit card account, TimePay, virtual cards for instant NFC payment
With increasing number of online retail stores and trending eCommerce industry of Pakistan, it’s a disappointed that a country is breathing without a reliable solution that could enable merchants to receive payments online. Zong’s aforementioned attempt is going to lend a hand the industry.
Sources i.e. ProPakistani recognized that Zong’s internet and NFC payment solution will be commercially rolled out with-in next 45 days.
