{"id":2032,"date":"2020-04-01T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:26:45","slug":"noon-visa-promote-100-contactless-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/noon-visa-promote-100-contactless-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"noon and Visa promote 100% contactless payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Noon, the Middle East\u2019s online shopping platform, fully shift to cashless options for the payment of online orders. To support the transition, Noon has partnered with Visa to offer new UAE<\/a> and KSA customers a 10% discount when they pay online using their Visa card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, Noon has seen a surge in home deliveries in the UAE<\/a> and Saudi Arabia. The eCommerce retailer\u2019s decision is aimed at ensuring the safety of their delivery personnel and customers in line with local governments\u2019 social distancing guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To honor its \u201cStay safe at home, while we\ndeliver to you\u201d message to consumers, Noon has also enacted several other\nmeasures, such as adding a \u201cLeave at my door\u201d option at checkout, sanitizing\nits facilities and packages and monitoring the hygiene of warehouse and delivery\npersonnel to stem the spread of COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faraz\nKhalid, CEO of Noon<\/strong>,\ncommented: \u201cNoon is committed to\ndelivering the safest and most convenient shopping experience to our\ncustomers. We are experiencing elevated levels of demand on\nthe platform, as well as increased levels of concern from our\ncustomers regarding the safety of their online deliveries. To\nalleviate this concern and to safeguard our delivery agents, we\nhave shifted to a card-only payment model in the UAE. In Saudi\nArabia, we have moved a vast majority of\nour catalog to card-only payment option as well. This\npartnership with Visa will support the drive towards safe and cashless\necommerce in the region, and we look forward to this deep-collaboration\ncontinuing in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcello\nBaricordi, Visa\u2019s MENA General Manager,<\/strong> said: \u201cWe\nknow consumers in UAE and KSA are increasingly comfortable with digital\npayments, and our research has shown that more than two thirds of local\nconsumers already prefer using cards over cash when shopping online, because\nthey find the former more secure and convenient. Knowing that every Visa\ntransaction is protected by multi-layered security protocols only helps to\nincrease that comfort and peace of mind. We laud Noon\u2019s decision to go cashless\nand are pleased to have this opportunity to not only enable this digital\ntransformation, but also do our part for our communities.  We hope it\ninspires other retailers to do the same especially during these unprecedented\ntimes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noon maintained that its move to remove\ncash on delivery and only accept prepaid payments was rolled out a few days ago\nand that it has been well accepted by\ntheir customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, Noon has seen a surge in home deliveries in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The eCommerce retailer\u2019s decision is aimed at ensuring the safety of their delivery personnel and customers in line with local governments\u2019 social distancing guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,9624],"tags":[1027,723,724,710,1025,1028,1002,290,73,1026],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail","category-smart-sectors","tag-contactless_payment","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid_19","tag-ksa","tag-noon","tag-online_shopping","tag-payment_solution","tag-retail","tag-uae","tag-visa"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/noon-and-VISA.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t