Prisons by their nature are secure environments and prison staff and visitors face restrictions on carrying personal belongings. By introducing a GiroVend cashless payment system staff and visitors no longer need to carry cash on their person. The cashless payment card can also act as identification and access control if required. Staff benefit from not having to take numerous trips back and forth from their locker and are able to better utilise their break times.
By incorporating cashless payment with staff identification and/or access control prisons are able to offer staff a single card solutions while on site. Salary sacrifice can also easily be incorporated as part of a cashless payment scheme, allowing staff to received subsidised meals, creating cost savings for both staff and the prison. This can be ideal within shift working environments where regular meals are consumed on site.
The GiroVend cashless payment solution can also be a benefit for prison visitors. GiroVend offer a guest card unit whereby site visitors are able to purchase a card load with funds use while on site and then either return the card and reclaim any remaining funds or keep the card for future use.
With prison visitors using a guest card, they purchase refreshments once inside the secure area. Funds can then either be redeemed or saved for the next visit. As smartcards are used for cashless payments the cards can also act as visitor identification.
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