Planet extends its strategic partnership with Flowbird to provide parking payments services across Europe

• Strengthens long-standing commercial relationship.
• Enhances the customer experience through integrated card-present and ecommerce
  payment capabilities.
• Customers now enjoy a flexible range of payment methods, including all major cards,
  local payment methods, and digital wallets.

Planet, a global provider of integrated payments and technology solutions, has announced a three-year contract extension with Flowbird, a global leader in urban mobility, offering advanced solutions in parking, transport and mobile services. Flowbird’s leading solutions span 6,000 cities across 80 countries, processing over two billion parking and transport transactions every year.

Building on the existing partnership, this new agreement significantly expands Planet’s role from
providing payments gateway services, to delivering a comprehensive range of payments solutions across both card-present and ecommerce channels.
The partnership will streamline payment processes through Flowbird’s mobility apps, parking meters and transport ticket vending machines, offering a unified solution across all payment
options including unattended terminals, EV charging stations and digital transactions.
Customers will also benefit from enhanced payments security and fraud prevention, offline authorisation and a dedicated Flowbird support programme.

Through the partnership, Flowbird is now able to offer a full range of flexible payment methods
including all major cards, local payment methods and digital wallets.

Colin Close, Chief Commercial Officer at Planet, said: “We’re thrilled to strengthen our long-standing partnership with Flowbird through this strategic extension to our existing relationship.
We’re making the payments process seamless for operators and end customers by integrating our full suite of payment services with Flowbird’s mobility solutions.
“Through this partnership, we’re committed to supporting the ever-evolving needs of the urban mobility sector.”

Christophe Evrot, Managing Director Flowbird Up, said: “We’re particularly excited to have extended our partnership with Planet. It means we can now commonly offer our customers a fully integrated solution covering all verticals of our businesses with unattended payment for
parking and transit, EV charging and mobile payments. This will allow cross and omnichannel scenarios, taking advantage of Planet’s processing and acquiring capabilities.”