Unified Payments Launches Payarena

Unified Payment Services Limited, leading Payments Industry Service Provider has introduced a new service platform, Payarena®.

Payarena offers customers access to Value Added Services which include purchase of Airtime (Virtual Top Up, Prepaid PINs, Blackberry subscriptions, Data bundle plans etc.) for all Telcos in Nigeria; payment of bills to major service providers such as PHCN, DSTV, GOTV, Swift Networks etc.

It also offers payment collections platform for public institutions for collections of taxes, levies; corporate organizations and religious institutions for collection of tithes and offerings etc. Payarena is also poised to offer funds transfer services in a manner that has not been offered in the industry.

The platform accepts multiple card schemes such as Visa, MasterCard, UnionPay and carefully designed to accommodate all other local and international card or payment options including contactless payment solution. It is accessible on multiple channels including Web via www.payarena.com, over 40,000 Point of Sale (POS) terminals and ATMs all over the country.

“For the very first time, Visa, MasterCard and UnionPay cardholders can now enjoy Value added services on a single platform” said Babatunde Okeniyi, director, Marketing and Sales for Unified Payments.

To access the service on the web, a cardholder visits www.payarena.com. Payarena is also available on the Point of Sale (POS) terminal and on the ATM.

“With Payarena, holders of different card brands and various other payment options are now well taken care of with regards to value-added services that come with electronic payments even as this brings a further boost to the cashless economy policy driven by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)” Said Okeniyi.