Richmond card technology company Atrium Campus is working with a California firm to bring checkout-free transactions to college campuses.
Atrium Campus is partnering with San Mateo, California’s Zippin to develop a system that utilizes campus access cards in checkout-free transactions — sort of like Amazon.com’s Just Walk Out technology it has at some of its grocery and convenience stores.
No money is changing hands in the deal between the two companies, according to David McQuillin, co-founder and vice president of sales and business development for Atrium Campus, but both will make investments at their own expense to develop software required for integrating the companies’ respective technologies.
“Zippin currently supports credit, debit, Apple Pay and Google Pay, but on a college campus, a corporate campus or a senior living community that’s using our system, they need to be able to pay with the campus card accounts, and that requires development on our side,” McQuillin…
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