Australian Newsagency Blog

ePay is experiencing an unexpected outage and will be down until around 2pm later today.  This is affecting newsagents selling mobile phone top ups and other product pulled from ePay.
It is amazing how reliant we have become on technology for what we sell.  I am sitting in the Tower Systems office at the moment and […]

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We have road tested the Visa prepaid products we are selling to check out ease of use and operating costs. We bought a couple for use within our business. From a consumer perspective, the Canvas Visa Prepaid card with BOPO, it is cheaper to use for purchases and cheaper to load than the […]

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This is smart - gift cards displayed in front of magazines. While we usually display card products at the counter in newsagencies in Australia, it is the magazine display which gets more eyeball attention - think of how long some people spend browsing. I took this photo at a 7-eleven in Hong Kong. […]

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While we have been offering prepaid Visa debit cards for some time, we have only recently installed the counter display unit. This has boosted sales. Customers can see the four products available and understand each. These are sold and recharged directly through our software. They are a great replacement for the […]

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SCX Global, newsXpress and Tower Systems are thrilled to launch four Visa Prepaid card products through our eziPass platform. CANVAS, VCARD, Just4 and Secure Cash Xpress provide newsagents with competitive products for several demographics. Commission on each card sale is between 30% and 40%. Commission on reload is five times the commission for BOPO.
The […]

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