Etisalat, one of the leading telecommunications service providers in the Middle East, has now started accepting cash on machines to pay bills. The cash deposited gets credited to the customers account online and real time, providing round the clock payment facility to the large customer base. With this implementation, TPS has all major telecoms in the Gulf among its customers.

SMARTdeposit offers flexible services on the terminals to serve post-paid, prepaid, internet and landline customers alike. Customer can also pay multiple bills at a time, which not only reduces payment hassles but customer’s time on the terminal as well.

These bill payment machines are integrated with Etisalat’s billing server using TPS switching technology, Phoenix. The successful implementation of cash-only solution has already laid foundation for second phase of the solution to accept payments through EMV-based ATM and Credit cards.

TPS provides both switch-based and terminal-resident cash deposit solutions in the form of TPS switch “Phoenix” and deposit automation solution “SMARTdeposit”, to meet varying requirements of the customers. The superior and enriched graphical user interface of SMARTdeposit is a feature that transforms deposit automation into a very simple activity. SMARTdeposit is the defacto standard in terminal-based deposit automation solution in the Middle East. Introduced in 2000, the product is a robust, mature and stable solution, running successfully at 30+ banks and all major telecom companies in the Middle East.