Toll Collect commissions Computop with payment processing of German truck tolls


The international payment service provider Computop will in future handle the payment processing of Toll Collect customers' truck tolls. The company, headquartered in Bamberg, Germany, has won the Europe-wide tender for "technical services in electronic payment transactions" of the operating company Toll Collect GmbH.

Toll Collect has transferred more than 85 billion euros to the federal budget since the start of the HGV toll in 2005. Around 85 percent of the revenue is currently collected on the basis of card payments. This business will be completely migrated to Computop by 2024. Customers can log in via the automatic procedure using the on-board unit, the customer portal www.toll-collect.de or the Toll Collect app. The payment process is exclusively digital.

26 FLEET CARDS MAKE UP THE MAIN SHARE

Computop has already been involved in the payment processing of the HGV toll since 2016, and for the implementation of the new contract, it is linking up a further 16 European fleet cards to the 10 already existing ones. This portfolio covers around 95 per cent of the entire fleet card market. In addition, there is a payment option via the relevant credit cards. Toll Collect expects a total volume of around 240 million transactions per year.

The new contract with Computop will initially run for four years and includes an option to extend.  Computop is Toll Collect's prospective partner for the future integration of further e-commerce payment methods.

Ingo Knütter, Project Manager Payment, Toll Collect: "With payment processing through Computop, we are creating modern processes for our customers, around 225,000 transport and logistics companies from more than 40 countries, with around 1.2 million trucks. Based on the good experience we have had working with Computop for more than five years, we are looking forward to further developing frictionless payment together."

Stephan Kück, Managing Director of Computop, added: "Through the deepend cooperation with Toll Collect, we will significantly expand our offering in the area of toll, fleet cards and mobility. The transaction volume represents pleasing growth for our payment platform Computop Paygate. With the announced extension of the HGV toll to vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, we expect volumes to increase further."

The plan is for the following fleet cards to be integrated into the Computop Paygate payment platform by the end of 2024:

American Express  -  Eurowag  -  Ressa
Aral / BP  -  FDE  -  RMC ServiceCard
AS24 / Total Energies  -  Global Star  -  Statoil
DKV  -  Hoyer Card Europe  -  SVG
E100  -  LogPay   - TND
ENI / Agip  -  Mercedes Service Card  -  Trasposervizi
Esso  -  Multiservice  -  UTA
Euroshell  -  OMV  -  Vialtis
Eurotoll SAS  -  Plose    

ÜBER TOLL COLLECT

Toll Collect is a high-performance technology service provider for toll collection and control and has been operating one of the largest toll systems in the world since 1 January 2005. Since 2018, Toll Collect has been a federal company, with the Federal Republic of Germany as its sole shareholder. Its main task is to collect the truck toll in Germany in accordance with legal requirements and transfer it to the federal budget.

In addition, the company is developing into a service platform of the Federal Government for infrastructure and digital services. It provides technical and advisory services in connection with the control services of the Federal Office for Logistics and Mobility, the European Electronic Toll Service (EEMD/EETS) as well as data evaluations for statistical purposes and traffic management. Toll Collect also supports the expansion of mobile communications in Germany through its subsidiary Mobilfunkinfrastrukturgesellschaft.

 

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Reliable and secure payment processing for the HGV toll is a basis for smooth freight transport in Germany

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Stephan Kück, Computop (left) and Ingo Knütter, Toll Collect are organising the changeover of payment processing to Computop Paygate with their teams.

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Ingo Knütter, born in 1967, has been employed by Toll Collect GmbH since 01.07.2004. A graduate in business administration, he began his career in finance at Deutsche Telekom AG. Before joining Toll Collect GmbH, he worked there as Head of Financial Accounting North. Until the end of 2022, Knütter was primarily responsible for the areas of payment and receivables risk and led the realignment and design of the target architecture in payment transactions. On 1 January 2023, he took on the role of Release Train Product Owner in the Customer Management and Billing department. Here, he is responsible for the strategic orientation, economic efficiency and business success of the product and service portfolio.

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Stephan Kück has been responsible for German and European corporate development in his function as CEO of Computop since January 1, 2010.
The trained banker started his professional career in 1989 at the former Stadtsparkasse Bamberg (now Sparkasse Bamberg). Stephan Kück took important career steps from customer advisor to head of new media to head of central services with over 100 employees. His areas of responsibility included IT operations, payment transactions, card business and back office.

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Stephan Kück is married and the father of two children. His sporting passion is basketball.

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About Computop

As one of the very first payment service providers, Computop offers its customers around the world local and innovative omnichannel solutions for payment processing and fraud prevention. The internally developed Computop Paygate payment platform enables seamless integrated payment processes for e-commerce and POS. Retailers, service providers and industrial enterprises have the flexibility and freedom to choose from over 350 payment methods enabling them to specifically tailor their payment options per country. Technologies such as biometric authentication and self-learning algorithms improve security and convenience for retailers and consumers alike.

Computop, a global player with its head office in Germany and locations in England and the USA, has been servicing large international companies in the service, retail, mobility, gaming and travel industries for more than 25 years. These companies include global brands such as C&A, Fossil, the entire Otto Group, Sixt, Swarovski and Wargaming. Computop, being ISO 27001 certified since 2021, also provides its payment system to banks and financial service providers as a white-label solution. In total, the certified carbon-neutral company processes commercial payment transactions with a combined value of USD 33 billion annually in 127 currencies. With its individual and secure solutions, Computop makes a major contribution to the future of international payment processing.

 

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