Major Adelaide Fringe Festival venue goes cashless with Mint Payments

Listed payment processing technology provider Mint Payments (ASX: MNW) has teamed up with a popular Adelaide Fringe Festival venue to take the festival cashless.

Mint Payments is deploying its technology at the Royal Croquet Club, one of the major venues at the Adelaide Fringe Festival; the largest arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere.

The iconic Adelaide Fringe Festival is expected to attract more than one million people between February 16 and March 18 with Mint Payments' technology being installed and used in all of the approximately 50 bars and food pop-ups.

Roberto Cardone, the director of the Royal Croquet Club, says trying to go completely cashless was difficult considering how much of a burden cashless payment systems were on the 3G network.

"This year, all of our food and drink venues are cashless," says Cardone.

"Given how much our patrons love being on their mobiles and sharing the experience on social media, this has posed a huge challenge in the past given many other payment platforms rely solely on 3G." Read more

David Simmons - Business News Australia - 2 Mar 2018