Cashless: the winning solution for organizers and festival-goers
As an organizer, replacing cash or token/ticketing systems with a cashless solution allows you to enhance management of your festival, to improve the experience of your participants but also to collect key data on their consumption.
The MyBee Box cashless solution has already allowed many festivals such as the Hellfest, Festidreuz or Francofolies to dematerialize their payments.
A cashless payment solution for festival
The traditional means of payment used in festivals (cash, tokens, vouchers, credit cards, checks, etc.) are a constant point of friction in the experience of your festival-goers, but also in the work of your staff.
Dematerializing payments, it means replacing these methods of payment – sources of risks and complications – by a card or a wristband equipped with a chip NFC which becomes the digital wallet of your festival-goers.
Are you still hesitating?
Increase your revenue on-site up to 60%
- complementary sales and increase in impulse purchases
- €2.80 average remaining credits per cashless tag
- return on investment during the first year of 2.7 on average
Control your operations effectively
- intuitive control of your festival via a dedicated management interface
- monitoring the activity of your bars/snacks with encrypted data
- closing your accounts facilitated by a full sales report
Simplify and secure the management of your festival
- waiting time shortened for a better customer experience
- lower the management costs and secure cash
- quick set-up with hardware ready for use
Modernize your festival with a digital tag
- a unique object for your festival-goers, kept after the event
- a privileged and innovative advertising space for your sponsors
- a festival with an innovative and modern image
A robust technology. A reliable & secure system
Like your ski pass or your new generation bank card for contactless payment, the NFC tag of your festival-goers are equipped with a so-called passive encrypted chip: it emits no waves and remains harmless for its holder. Credits can be topped-up to participants’ cashless wristbands/cards in exchange for real money at physical top-up points or from their smartphone on cashless.fr (optional).
While going to the bar or snack kiosk, your festival-goers can exchange their credits for a drink or a sandwich thanks to the fast and secure reading of their NFC wristband/card on a payment terminal managed by your point of sale staff. This operation relies on robust and secure cloud-based payment technology called NFC or Near Field Communication.
Concretely, our MyBee Box solution is based on four elements:
MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
To set up your festival and track the operations (sales and top-up points, vendors, items, prices, transactions, etc.).
TERMINALS
Equipped with NFC card readers and our cash register software, they allow the staff to manage top-up and payments.
NFC TAGS
The digital wallet of your festival-goers with the colors of your event or your sponsors.
CASHLESS.FR
Website allowing users to top-up their NFC tags online and block it in case of loss/theft (subject to network coverage).
Cashless revolutionizes the experience of festival-goers
Hellfest, Festidreuz, Francofolies, Guitar Break, etc. the NFC technology of MyBee Box has already proven itself in many cashless festivals in recent years. With their cashless card or wristband, festival-goers no longer have to worry about their wallet and can fully enjoy your festival and consume safely.
6 cashless benefits for festival-goers
Offer cashless to your festival-goers with MyBee Box means:
✓ a unique and modern method of payment,
collectable and secured
✓ a top-up of their card/wristband
on-site or online
✓ cashing 3x faster
than a credit card payment
✓ track their purchases and refund
the remaining balance online
✓ disabling the NFC tag online
in case of loss or theft
✓ relevant offers thanks to consumer
data marketing
How does the MyBee Box solution work
for your participants?
festival-goers for a seamless experience in 3 steps:
1. Retrieve and top-up
your NFC tag
The participants retrieve a cashless card or wristband on which they can top-up the amount of their choice, either at a top-up point via any methods of payment (cash, credit card, Lydia, Pumpkin, etc.), or on cashless.fr.
2. Use the solution to consume during a festival
During the festival, it takes a few
seconds for festival-goers to pay
for their food and beverages with their NFC tags
thanks to the payment terminals located in your points of sale.
3. Get your balance refunded after the festival on cashless.fr
Once the festival is over, your participants can go to cashless.fr in order to get a refund of their remaining credits by indicating their name/surname, email address, bank details, as well as the 7-character alphanumeric code of their NFC tag.
FAQ : Frequently asked questions about the use of cashless
Is cashless suitable for any size of festival?
Since 2013, MyBee Box has equipped more than 300 festivals going from 250 to 200,000 participants in 15 countries.
What are the steps of the cashless MyBee Box?
As a festival manager, the MyBee Box solution involves several actors in your organization from preparing the event website to the end of its operation. Find all the stages of your cashless journey with MyBee Box before, during and after your festival.
Is the handling of cashless MyBee Box easy?
Whether it is for you as a festival organizer, for your staff, your volunteers or your festival-goers, the MyBee Box cashless solution is intuitive, which makes it easy for everyone involved to organize or participate in your event.
With the MyBee Box, the customer experience of your festival-goers becomes more seamless and your staff quickly autonomous, which allows you to better control your festival.
Does cashless require an internet connection?
The MyBee Box aims to meet the needs and on-site constraints of festivals. Our cashless solution can therefore work perfectly offline, you do not need to install wifi terminals, nor do you need a good 4G coverage.
Network coverage is only required if you want to enable the online top-up option allowing participants to top-up their NFC card/wristband from their smartphone at cashless.fr.
Do I have to invest in additional equipment?
Our cashless solution has been designed to be easy to use and handle by your staff. It allows faster cash-ins in points of sale, giving more time for your staff members to take care of the service. You will not need to hire additional bartenders on your points of sale.
Is this solution suitable for other events?
Private parties, student events (galas, inter-school meetings, etc.), sporting events (car races, marathons, athletics meetings, jumping, etc.) or professionnal events and thematic exhibitions, our all-in-one MyBee Box cashless solution allows the dematerialization of payments for all types of events.
They already organize festivals throughout France with the MyBee Box Solution
Jean-Baptiste Meslard
Treasurer, Organization of the Omnisports Games
“The Mybee Box solution is very easy to use, we did not need staff on-site. The saved budget allowed us to invest in other items of expenditure. We were trained beforehand to use the back office. This allowed us during the event to change the POS terminals and therefore to limit the wait. Participants could consume without constraint, our turnover has increased significantly thanks to the cashless system. We could not do without it. “
Arnaud d’Hardemare
Treasurer, Gala Grenoble Business School
“In addition to greatly facilitating on-site transactions at this year’s edition, the MyBee Box has allowed us, thanks to the statistics provided, to close our cash flow efficiently and to have a detailed view of the remaining stocks. These figures will allow us to establish more accurate forecasts based on this year’s consumption to better manage our orders for the next edition. “
Hugo Roze
Head of Payment and Cashless, Texture Festival
“The events we organize take place in atypical places and involve many volunteers. The introduction of cashless MyBee Box simplifies their life by allowing them to make faster cash-ins, which gives them more time to take care of bar service. Since 3 editions, MyBee Box is a pledge of confidence and security for the management of our transactions during the Texture Festival. “
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