NetPOS has secured approval from the Nigeria Inter-Financial institution Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) to roll out its Contactless App for business use in Nigeria.
The app converts NFC-enabled gadgets to simply accept card cost utilizing contactless playing cards.
In a press release, Chief Business and Enterprise Officer, NetPOS, Bamidele Omolehinwa, mentioned that the app is a major value-driven resolution for micro and small enterprises (SMEs) companies in Nigeria, which are sometimes uncared for by banks in Level of Gross sales (POS) issuance and may now reap the benefits of their cell phones to simply accept funds.
He famous that the agency is at present in discussions with a number of business banks in Nigeria to make the app accessible to SMEs in Nigeria.
He mentioned the app is leveraging applied sciences which have been licensed in Nigeria and globally, making it a safe resolution for cost transactions.
“The app’s embedded software program that captures and submit card info for processing has been examined and licensed, and has been constructed to make sure that a fraudulent service provider doesn’t seize shopper’s card info,” he mentioned.
The app disables some a part of the Android OS performance corresponding to recording and display screen seize whereas working the app to make sure malicious intentions to seize individuals’s knowledge should not permitted,” Omolehinwa mentioned.
Head, Service provider Providers, NetPOS, Soji Ajayi, said the corporate’s plans to work with different Fintechs to increase the attain and capabilities of the app.