{"id":674,"date":"2013-10-22T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=674"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:55:44","slug":"amex-cardholders-can-now-pay-with-reward-points-for-new-york-taxi-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/amex-cardholders-can-now-pay-with-reward-points-for-new-york-taxi-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"AmEx Cardholders can now pay with reward points for New York taxi fares."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_696\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/3681317392_f4f5ab029c_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-696\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-696\" alt=\"American Express Cardholders us Rewards for New York Taxi Fares\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/3681317392_f4f5ab029c_o-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/3681317392_f4f5ab029c_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/3681317392_f4f5ab029c_o-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shedboy\/3681317392\/\">Credit: Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>American Express cardmembers can now use their accumulated loyalty points to pay for taxi fares in New\u00a0<\/b><b>York City through a partnership with VeriFone.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>The programme will roll out on VeriFone&#8217;s in-taxi devices that process more than 200,000 payments a day in more than 7000 cabs throughout NYC.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Berland, senior vice president, digital partnerships and development at American Express, says: &#8220;With this announcement, we&#8217;re leveraging our unique technology to bring it to life at the most critical commerce touchpoint &#8211; the physical point of sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The integration is currently limited to New York taxis, but it doesn&#8217;t take a great stretch of the imagination to see it expanded to include other VeriFone point-of-sale systems.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the ride, AmEx members who have chosen to pay by card will be given the option to use points for their ride fare, including tip and tolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express cardmembers can now use their accumulated loyalty points to pay for taxi fares in New\u00a0York City through a<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/amex-cardholders-can-now-pay-with-reward-points-for-new-york-taxi-fares\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,50,364,11],"tags":[125,685,225,686,692,236,286,203,691,696,92,689,694,693,49,76,688,687,543,690,697,698,695,508],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-card-processing-2","category-electronic-payments-2","category-gift-loyalty-card-processing","category-visa-mastercard-american-express","tag-american-express","tag-amex","tag-card","tag-cardholders","tag-cardmembers","tag-commerce","tag-devices","tag-digital","tag-fares","tag-integration","tag-loyalty","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-partnership","tag-payments","tag-point-of-sale","tag-points","tag-reward","tag-systems","tag-taxi","tag-tip","tag-tolls","tag-touchpoint","tag-verifone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}