Banca Popolare di Vicenza Uses Bar Code Readers To Facilitate Payments

By Datalogic Scanning, Inc.

In 2001, the Italian Banking Association (ABI) determined that established business-to-consumer methods of payment collection service were not easily or entirely satisfying consumer requirements. At the time, banks in Italy offered two methods for payment collection: domiciliation and MAV service (by means of notice), both of which required visiting a bank branch with which the customer had a pre-established relationship.

As a result, the ABI created a new payment service called OPLA (Freely obtained payment order), which allows consumers to make payments, and take care of other financial matters such as subscriptions, taxes, and fines with ease at any bank branch.

All these services were made possible through technology with improved payment procedures. OPLA automating the payment process by using data encoded in OCR -B, a two-dimensional PDF417 code symbology, resulting in errorfree data capture transactions in real-time.