DUBAI: The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has partnered with a local payment platform enabling consumers to use their Nol cards when making payments at over 5,000 retail outlets, including Little Manila Restaurant, Carrefour and Lulu Hypermart chain.
Simon Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Mercury said “We are delighted to partner with RTA and support their strategy of making Nol a multi-purpose card. We have enabled many retail outlets for Nol payments in Dubai. Nol’s ‘Tap n go’ functionality at Point of Sale enables users to pay for their day-to-day expenses with convenience and ease which removes the need for cash and paves the way to simpler payments. “
He added, “We, at Mercury, the domestic payment scheme for the UAE are continuously focused on growing Nol acceptance across Dubai in line with RTA’s Smart City initiative”.
Khaled Al Awadi, Director of Automated Fare Collection Systems at RTA’s Corporate Technology Support Services Sector, RTA, said: “This initiative is an important step towards realizing the RTA’s objective of bringing happiness to Nol cardholders in Dubai through offering them diversified use for their cards.
“The initiative is compatible with the Smart City initiative of Dubai Government by developing advanced technologies that enable people to benefit from the diverse package of services they use on a daily basis,” he added.
Mercury is a domestic payment scheme of the UAE and its partnership with RTA allows it to enable payments at point of sale (POS) terminals in the retail environment for Nol cards.
The project as launched last October 2017 during GITEX technology in partnership with Zoom stores. It has simple ‘tap ‘n go’ functionality just like how users tap their card for using metro or bus.
The number of establishments honoring Nol cards has grown.
The key brands include Zoom, Burger King, ENOC, Carrefour, Lulu, Aster Pharmacy, Aswaaq supermarket. Nol payments have wide coverage at small and medium scale merchants like 800 degrees Nepolitana Pizzeria, London fish & chips, Little Manila among many others.
