Let Your Fingers Do the Paying

A group of retailers in the Charlotte, N.C., area has installed biometric transaction processing in its stores.

BioPay (Herndon, Va.) announced that national and local retailers, including Lowes Foods, Maggie Moo’s, Jersey Mikes and Dilworth’s Coffee, are installing its “shop with your finger” technology.

The BioPay system uses shoppers’ unique finger images and their chosen BioPay numbers (usually a phone number) to authorize a secured debit direct from their checking account. The company says the one-time enrollment can be completed in less than two minutes at any merchant that offers the biometric payment service. Once enrolled, customers can purchase in seconds with their fingers at any BioPay payment location across the United States. The BioPay service is free to the consumer.

“As the first retailer in North Carolina to adopt biometric payment technology, we are providing our customers with the most secure payment method available and, at the same time speeding up the checkout process for them,” said Lowes Foods president Curtis Oldenkamp. “We take great pride in our fast checkout service and work hard to ensure that customers have minimal wait times at the register. We have been using the BioPay technology in one of our Hickory stores for the past few weeks, and are already seeing great results.”

“Our customers find BioPay intriguing as well as fast and more secure than other forms of payment,” said Sandy May of Dilworth’s Coffee, which has seven stores in Charlotte using the BioPay technology.. We chose BioPay because when our customers enroll at Dilworth’s they get the convenience of being able to use BioPay at other retail locations across town or across the country.”