Florida students have more payment options thanks to wireless WaveRiders

A new laundry payment and management system at the University of Florida accepts the GatorOne campus ID card as well as credit and debit cards.

The previous system accepted the campus card as well as cash, explains Mark Hill, assistant director of housing for Facilities...

Florida students have more payment options thanks to wireless WaveRiders

A new laundry payment and management system at the University of Florida accepts the GatorOne campus ID card as well as credit and debit cards.

The previous system accepted the campus card as well as cash, explains Mark Hill, assistant director of housing for Facilities Management at the school’s Department of Housing and Residence Education. The university made the switch because the mag-stripe reader on the 12-year-old machines often didn’t work making it difficult for students to use laundry on campus. “We’d seen a decrease in the usage of our machines on campus and in some cases it was because the card reader wasn’t functioning properly,” he explained.

The readers used in the system were out of production and getting replacement parts wasn’t possible, Hill says. To try and drive more student use of the laundry facilities the university decided to deploy the WaveRider system from Heartland Payment Systems.

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