Game Payment Technology has announced the name and design of its cashless payments app, Yalp.
The joint venture company, between the UK trade association BACTA and the payment method developer Polar Moment, named the app after the word “play” spelt backwards.
Tim Stratton, director of GPT, said: “Rather than commission an outside agency, we wanted the name to come from the heart of what we are involved with and accurately reflect what the joint venture is all about. As a result, we got everybody involved, including BACTA staff and industry representatives to pitch in their ideas. We selected Yalp from over 50 suggestions."
After introducing the idea at the Autumn Coin-Op Show in London, the company published a technical integration document, which provides machine manufacturers with the information needed to support the app. This comprises a Secure Linux Unit, designed to connect through ccTalk in any ccTalk-enabled analogue or digital machine. Each SLU is supplied with the loom needed to connect it to the machine’s ccTalk bus.
The document describes the required steps for a manufacturer to support the installation of an SLU into their ccTalk-based machine. A development kit, comprising an SLU, loom and NFC tags are provided, free of charge, to manufacturers to assist with their implementation. To receive the kit, GPT is asking recipients to agree to test and prove the implementation of the requirements as outlined in the document.
