Traditional bus fareboxes only can support coins or credit cards, of which coins have great disadvantages. First of all, it is inconvenient to get change. Additionally, there is a lot of workload to collect and manage cash. Costs of cash transportation and backstage reconciliation management are high. Golong smart bus farebox can not only integrate the function of traditional bus farebox but also support mobile payment methods such as WeChat Payment and Alipay, so as to reduce the large amount of labor costs, reconciliation, and transportation costs that cash brings to bus companies. It is combined with contemporary mobile payment trends to create intelligent buses. Golong’s new farebox has specially customized intelligent slotting machines according to the requirements for intelligent buses, supporting mobile electronic payment, and integrating face payment.
At present, bus companies in China have basically adopted the self-service ticketing model. The use of fareboxes can not only reduce the cumbersome manual ticketing but also save passengers’ time to buy tickets and labor costs. The smart bus facial payment farebox is safe, practical, convenient, and strongly reliable, which can effectively ensure the safety of money in the box. With the popularity of bus fareboxes, many companies reduce standards in the design, reduce functionality and reliability, and use cheap materials in order to achieve high profits and low costs. However, the quality of fareboxes is not stable so the security of money can not be guaranteed. It results in the loss of money, which causes great losses to bus operation enterprises.
How smart can the bus fare box be? The “smart bus facial payment farebox” developed by Hangzhou Golong Technology Co., Ltd. can support automatic authentication of money and intelligent counting. Combined with the system processing motherboard, the data, such as automatic authentication of money, the number of coins, and GPS location, will be reported to the cloud platform to realize the technical processing function that can control, check, count, and verify coins. At the same time, the smart bus farebox can support a variety of digital payment methods such as face payment, NFC, UnionPay QuickPass, WeChat, Alipay payment, etc., which can reduce the use of cash and make the accounting management backstage clearer.