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Loading electronic travel tickets onto smart cards at the till has now become a reality thanks to the ACT Retail POST, the first ITSO 2.1.4 certified Point of Service Terminal (POST) to hit the high street. ITSO is the national government standard for e-ticketing in the UK. ACT, the leading provider of ticketing systems and services, has today announced successful ITSO 2.1.4 certification of its retail ticketing application called the Retail POST. The Retail POST by ACT provides a touch screen interface with which travel shop staff can load ITSO travel tickets to smart media such as smart cards. Customers can also collect their online ticket and pay as you go travel top-ups from the ACT Retail POST.

ACT (Applied Card Technologies Limited) is pleased to support all garden centres in the Choice "Reward Card" group. Since putting ACT's GEL system in place, membership has increased by over 10% and targeted campaigns have successfully reactivated a large number of dormant accounts. Additionally, redemption rates on campaign offers of between 25% and 40% have generated significant sales growth.

ACT (Applied Card Technologies Limited) is delighted to have achieved ISO 14001:2004 certification. ISO 14001 is recognised all over the world as evidence of functional and successful operational environmental protection with a focus on continuous improvement of environmental performance, avoidance of negative environmental impacts and conformity with legal requirements.

Go-ahead Group has just launched the UK’s first ITSO-based smartcard trial incorporating online ticket sales, across its London Midland rail franchise. Underpinning this is the ACT ITSO compliant HOPS ticketing systems coupled with the ACT Customer Management System (CMS) and rail Retail Fulfilment Service (RFS).

Kent County Council has completed the land mark first step in creating an end to end smart environment to better serve its residents.

ACT is delighted to announce its success as winners of the Wiltshire Business of the Year 2009 – International award.

Bolton Council launch the UK’s first multi-purse smart card with an ITSO enabled pay-as-you-go travel purse

ACT is pleased to announce the successful completion of the card issuance project phase which has resulted in the roll-out of in excess of 650,000 smart concessionary bus passes across all 22 local authorities in Wales.

The Belgian cities of Brugge and Oostende have chosen ACT (Applied Card Technologies) to provide their new city card.

In January 2009, ACT launched a new dedicated ServiceDesk portal to provide a single point of contact for all its customers’ support needs.