Do You Have Any Cash? The Swiss could not pay by card

Tuesday morning in the Starbucks in the train station of Bern: The employees to ask the customers in the queue to lay, whether you can pay for with cash. Card payments are not possible, because the Terminals weren't working. Chinese tourists return with two cups of coffee, you pay for it, and probably as a Souvenir from the city of take wanted. "Just around the corner it has ATMs where you can get cash," says a Starbucks employee and apologizes for the circumstances.

The payment terminals of SIX Payment Services fell by 8.54 PM, media spokeswoman Catherine Praschl says. Pay with all cards or Smartphones was not in shops and Restaurants, therefore, possible. The outage affected the whole of Switzerland as well as Austria and Luxembourg.

the cause of The technical malfunction have quickly can be found, said Praschl. By 9.32 PM, the error was fixed. The systems were of this time. Because it had been in the 38 minutes, many of the payment requests which could not be carried out, it came, however, to delay when booting. At noon everything was back to normal, gave Praschl in the afternoon the all-clear.

ATMs were not affected by the disorder, such as SIX-spokesman Julian Chan, on request, says. However, clients of the SBB could not pay their tickets temporarily with the card. An SBB spokeswoman clarified that the failure points for all machines on 700 grip and all 150 SBB-travel centers had occurred.

there is Currently a glitch with the payment by credit card or Bank card. On the machines, as well as online and on the App. We recommend you to remove the ticket from the vending machine for cash. I'm sorry for the circumstances. /sb

— rail service, SBB CFF FFS (@rail service) November 19, 2019

use Also Coop , the Migros and kiosks, customers were able to on the Morning of the Terminals. How high are the revenue losses for the Coop to fail, not wanted to comment, a company spokeswoman with regard to "competitive reasons".

In the case of Migros have been affected by the interruption, all of the cards by SIX Payment Services in all branches, a spokesman said. The Migros Cumulus-Mastercard and the Postcard had to work. "Because 59 percent of our customers pay in cash, we hope, that as nobody had to leave with empty shopping bags from Migros," added the spokesman.

Also Valora affected been affected shares

The Kiosk operator Valora, there are over 1100 sales outlets throughout Switzerland. A Company spokesman says that at kiosks, in principle, with smaller amounts will be paid. "As a result, a customer can Dodge the shopping easier to cash if the card payment fails." To makes default in sales, Valora no information.

The SIX Group SIX Group operates the infrastructure for the Swiss financial center and has the headquarters in Zurich. The company's Name stands for Swiss Infrastructure and Exchange. SIX Payment Services is responsible for the number of terminals in Switzerland and is part of Worldline in November 2018. The SIX Group AG holds a share of 27 percent of the French company. (anf/met)

Created: 19.11.2019, 10:58 PM