Feb. 16, 2019
First Data is putting its mobile payments technology to the test by launching a cashless pilot study with the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc. to sell their iconic cookies using Clover point-of-sale terminals.
First Data will provide Clover terminals to about 400 girl scouts in the Greater Atlanta area to sell the cookies using Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay or credit and debit cards. Clover is a leading POS terminal used by more than a million merchants nationwide, allowing multiple forms of digital payment options.
"The Girl Scouts have been huge advocates of preparing our girls for leadership in the tech space," Jessica Manning, a spokesperson for the Girl
Scouts of Greater Atlanta told Mobile Payments today in a telephone interview.
The Girl Scouts in 2015 launched a nationwide "Digital Cookie" program that allowed individual scouts to use personal websites to sell cookies to friends and family. The Digital Cookie program represented about 12 percent of overall sales in the Greater Atlanta area and the local region ranked third nationwide in Digital Cookie sales and ranked first in the southeastern U.S.
Manning said the new program would use terminals set up in fixed cookie booth locations, including supermarkets and other locations. Cookie booth locations can be found by searching the www.showmethecookies.com website.
The Girl Scouts geographic area covers 13 counties surrounding Atlanta going north to Polk County in Tennessee.
First Data was just acquired last month by Fiserv in a $22 billion deal. The two companies, pending regulatory approval, will merge with Firserv CEO Jeffrey Yabuki and First Data CEO Frank Bisignano taking the top two executive positions, with Yabuki becoming chairman and CEO, while Bignano becomes president and COO of the combined firm.
Topics: Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments, POS, Transaction Processing
Companies: First Data
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