Planet extends its strategic partnership with Flowbird to provide parking payments services across Europe
Strengthens long-standing commercial relationship. Enhances the customer experience through integrated card-present and ecommerce payment capabilities. Customers now enjoy a flexible range of payment methods, including all major cards, local payment methods, and digital wallets.
Building on the existing partnership, this new agreement significantly expands Planet’s role from providing payments gateway services, to delivering a comprehensive range of payments solutions across both card-present and ecommerce channels.
The partnership will streamline payment processes through Flowbird’s mobility apps, parking meters and transport ticket vending machines, offering a unified solution across all payment options including unattended terminals, EV charging stations and digital transactions.
Customers will also benefit from enhanced payments security and fraud prevention, offline authorisation and a dedicated Flowbird support programme.
Through the partnership, Flowbird is now able to offer a full range of flexible payment methods including all major cards, local payment methods and digital wallets.
“We’re thrilled to strengthen our long-standing partnership with Flowbird through this strategic extension to our existing relationship.”— Colin Close, Chief Commercial Officer at Planet
Close continues: ”We’re making the payments process seamless for operators and end customers by integrating our full suite of payment services with Flowbird’s mobility solutions.”
Christophe Evrot, Managing Director Flowbird Up, said: “We’re particularly excited to have extended our partnership with Planet. It means we can now commonly offer our customers a fully integrated solution covering all verticals of our businesses with unattended payment for parking and transit, EV charging and mobile payments. This will allow cross and omnichannel scenarios, taking advantage of Planet’s processing and acquiring capabilities.”
