A fun UX that’s arrived in only some Japanese taxis, for your edification: Your back-of-seat ad display has a button saying Japan Taxi (name of app) in it. It has a QR code. The app has you register a payment method (during *one* taxi ride); you scan the bar code any time to pay
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I can’t underemphasize the printed receipt piece: a large portion of habitual cab users are salarymen who are traveling on the company’s yen, and even though a contactless payment takes 200ms a receipt dance takes 30-60s plus.
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This is a UX that a US city could adopt for its cabs *if* US users could be convinced of the value proposition “I will happily give any cab driver preauthorization to debit my CC for whatever *without telling me in advance* because *of course* you can trust a cab driver.”
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Phone users (especially those on contract) have very low credit risk, because your contract usually have a clause to redeem excess fees and fees you are already vetted when you signed the contract. The taxi company must have an agreement with telcos to clear this up.
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They're not using carrier billing, though, they're using "pre-register a CC" or ApplePay/etc.
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