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Pepsi Bottling Ventures Selects USA Technologies For Cashless Payments

MALVERN, PA -- USA Technologies Inc. said Pepsi Bottling Ventures , the largest privately-held bottler for Pepsi-Cola products in North America, has signed a multi-year agreement for it ePort Connect service. The agreement includes deployment of USAT's ePort cashless payment system on 13,000 machines, as well as the option to add Seed Pro and Seed Office software. The complete end-to-end enterprise solution enables PBV to accommodate cashless payments, improve customer service and route efficiency and re...

August 2, 2018

MALVERN, PA -- USA Technologies Inc. said Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest privately-held bottler for Pepsi-Cola products in North America, has signed a multi-year agreement for it ePort Connect service.

The agreement includes deployment of USAT's ePort cashless payment system on 13,000 machines, as well as the option to add Seed Pro and Seed Office software. The complete end-to-end enterprise solution enables PBV to accommodate cashless payments, improve customer service and route efficiency and reduce the company's carbon footprint.

USAT's ePort cashless payment system brings cashless payments to its customers' machines. Seed Pro is a cloud-based analytics system that delivers dynamic scheduling, pre-kitting, smart alerts and optimized merchandising. The Seed Office solution is a cloud-based and mobile-optimized vending management system for back-office management of key functions such as product accountability, sales reconciliation and asset tracking.

PBV, a new customer for USAT with the inking of the agreement, is  based in Raleigh, NC.  It is the largest privately-held bottler for Pepsi-Cola products in North America -- manufacturing, selling, and distributing some of the world's most recognized brands. It operates 20 bottling and distribution facilities, serving more than eight million consumers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

"An important part of PBV's mission is to provide best-in-class customer service to our clients," said PVB vice-president of foodservice Randy Quirk. "To meet this challenge, we needed to look at leveraging best-in-class technology to improve the consumer experience while also increasing our own performance and efficiency. We have long recognized the value of adding cashless payments to our vending machines, but were also looking to drive operational efficiencies. USA Technologies was able to offer a comprehensive solution from a single platform that allow us to achieve all our goals."