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USA Technologies expands partnership with AMI

November 16, 2011

USA Technologies Inc., a provider of wireless, cashless payment and M2M telemetry solutions for self-serve, small-ticket retailing industries, today announced it has entered into a three-year agreement with AMI Entertainment Network, Inc. a manufacturer of touchscreen entertainment products and electronic jukeboxes.

While thousands of AMI's Megatouch countertop products are already connected to USAT's ePort Connect, the new agreement broadens the relationship, making USA Technologies the exclusive provider of transaction processing services for all of AMI's credit- and debit card-enabled Megatouch game machines in addition to all of the Rowe Jukebox game machines.

Under the agreement, USA Technologies' ePort SDK cashless payments software is installed into the machines and shipped by AMI to customer locations, ready to accept credit and debit cards for payment, as well as provide remote machine and sales data through USA Technologies' ePort Connect Service. During the term of the agreement, USA Technologies will earn transaction and licensing fee revenues in connection with its transaction processing services.

USA Technologies' ePort SDK is a software development kit that enables owners and operators of PC-based terminals such as kiosks, gaming systems and online jukeboxes, to quickly and easily build cashless payments functionality into their machines.

USA Technologies' ePort SDK is supported by the company's ePort Connect service, a PCI-compliant, end-to-end suite of cashless payment and telemetry services specially tailored to fit the needs of the self-service retail industries such as vending, kiosk, amusement and gaming. ePort Connect enables self-service terminals to accept credit, debit, contactless cards and other cashless forms of payment, handles all elements of transaction processing, and allows customers to monitor and manage their terminals online.

"Partnering with USAT gives us the ability to expand credit and debit card acceptance through their ePort Connect service in a safe and secure, PCI compliant manner, for both our Megatouch and Rowe product lines," A.J. Russo, creative director of AMI Entertainment, said in the release.