Hawker centres to offer contactless, cashless FlashPay

FireIce SG

Hawker centres to offer contactless, cashless FlashPay system soon

Going cash-free at hawker centres will soon be a reality as Nets, the Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore, rolls out new initiatives to promote cashless payments.

The company is already testing out contactless FlashPay card systems at 10 stalls at the Beo Crescent Market and Food Centre near Havelock Road, and a hawker centre in Clementi Central is the next in line to use the system.

Contactless payments are transactions made by waving a card over a reader, instead of signing a charge slip or entering a PIN code.

Bedok's upcoming hawker centre at Block 208B along New Upper Changi Road, due to open in October, will be 100 per cent cashless, said Nets chief executive Jeffrey Goh. To pay, consumers simply tap a FlashPay card on a small electronic terminal that hawkers can preload with item prices.

Fire yp Lim SG

good but what happen to the poor and people can't have or don't have this card??

digimonfan2008 SG

No thanks. 90% of the times, those "cashless" machines always breakdown, forcing customers to still use cash.

Cash at least will never breakdown.

digimonfan2008 SG

If flashpay card lost or stolen how? Unlike credit card, no need signature, the thief/finder who stole it can use it to buy things without signing. I still prefer NETs as need PIN number.