Viva.com becomes first acquirer in France to accept Meal Vouchers on any device, in partnership with Conecs

Paris, January 25, 2024 – Viva.com, a leading European cloud-based technology bank powering payments acceptance on any device, is the first acquirer in France to enable Meal Voucher card transactions via its innovative tap on any device technology, turning any corporate device into a card terminal. This development was made possible thanks to Viva.com’s partnership with Conecs, technical operator of dematerialized Meal Vouchers transactions in France.

Viva.com is the first acquirer in France to enable physical and digital Meal Voucher card transactions via its viva.com | Terminal app, which can be embedded to any smart device used by hospitality businesses, ranging from smartphones to desktop cashiers. In France, 6 million employees benefit from Meal Vouchers, spending nearly €8 billion per year, with a staggering 70% currently using meal voucher cards, expected to reach 100% in the immediate future. This partnership, which will help facilitate the nearly 600 million Meal Voucher transactions per year, is another step towards liberating the payments infrastructure in France, offering customers and hospitality businesses of all sizes streamlined payments.

To start accepting Meal Vouchers, restaurants are simply required to download the viva.com | Terminal app, and provide their Conecs Identification Number. Enhancing the versatility of the viva.com | Terminal app, Meal Voucher acceptance has been seamlessly integrated into its comprehensive array of 38+ payment methods, encompassing international card schemes and local card schemes, with CB included.

“It is really exciting to be the first acquirer to accept Meal Vouchers in France, via our market-leading tap on any device technology. At Viva.com we are focusing on curating seamless payment checkout journeys. This new partnership with Conecs, which will support several million Meal Voucher customers and thousands of restaurants and hospitality businesses across France, represents a huge leap forward in the payments revolution that’s currently unfolding,” commented Samy Touboul, Head of E-Commerce & Enterprise at Viva.com France.

“While the Meal Voucher is popular with the French and that a large majority of employees now use it in a dematerialized form with Conecs-labeled Meal Voucher cards, we are happy to count Viva.com among our key partners. Viva.com shares with Conecs the same values of excellence and innovation and aims, like Conecs, to streamline the payment process for the greatest benefit of restaurants and their customers. This partnership is the concrete expression of our ambition to always offer the best acceptance network in France to beneficiaries of our customers’ Meal Voucher cards,” says Frédéric Amsler, Deputy Managing Director at Conecs.