Prepayment Online Vending Solutions consists of Online Vending System, Online Vending Clients and Hardware Security Module (HSM).
Online Vending System as the core part of Prepayment Online Vending Solutions, is a system that allows customers to purchase tokens in real-time and create the Hardware Security Module (HSM) encrypted tokens using the Standard Transfer Specification (STS) secure protocol and sends the tokens to the Online Vending Client.
The Online Vending System is linked to Online Vending Clients which are located throughout the national wide. When a customer wishes to purchase a prepaid token from an online vending client, the Online Vending Client sends a request to the Online Vending System; which then creates and sends the token data back to the requesting Online Vending Client. The Online Vending Client is then able to issue the token to the customer. The customer returns to their premises and enters the token number into an prepaid meter to utilize the amount of energy purchased.

What are the features?

Complies with the standards and specifications of STS600-4-2, IEC 62055-41, NRS 009-2-1:1998, NRS 009-2-2:1995, NRS 009-6-10, ISO 8583, IEC 61970-301, NRS 049, SANS 1524-1.

Third-Party Data Exchange Interface
Support XMLVend for 3rd parties vending channels and vending clients and IEC61968—9 & IEC61968—6 & IEC61968—8 for CRM, ERPS, Billing and HES and MDMS.
Supports at least 20 million customers and can be scalable to support additional customers as per customer demands.
Support for a peak vending transaction rate of 2,000,000 transactions/second and a continuous average transaction rate of at least 100,000,000 transactions/second.
Multiple Revenue Protections
Support FBE allocation and indigent customer’s management, tariffs and fee charges and prepaid debt recovery management. It also analyzes purchase patterns of prepaid customers, raise flags and create alarm events on an irregular consumption patterns. The system uses complex anomaly detection algorithm, and machine learning technology to single out electricity theft and irregular behavior.
Supports a variety of energy meter models:
Vending system can support the code, the common IC card prepaid energy meter, CPU card prepaid energy meter. It can also support the prepayment energy meter that conforming the STS standard and is compatible for different SGC and manufacturer.
Key Management
Support importing key load files into the database as supplied according to the approved STS specifications provided by Eskom’s Key Management Centre.
Various customized reports supports
Vendor Information Reports, Customer Information Reports, Vendor Exception Reports, Exception Reports, System Information Reports, Engineering Reports, User Activity Log Report.
System Access Management
The system implements role-based access rights and The data transmission between the systems has an encryption mechanism, and the external interface has a security mechanism authentication, which is verified by an encryption KEY and a digital signature. All the external connection will be controlled in a secure level. Like the transmission of the log is established in TCP protocol and need both side certification to protect the connection secure and data secure.
Roles and Permission Administration Management
The system platform uses role permissions to customize management, and the role permissions are configured according to requirements. The administrator role has the authorization of managing configuration role information and role. The super user has all the user authorization of managing the system platform and customizing various roles and users. The operator has the relevant authority of the toll collector, and the super user configures the authority.

Various vending methods
Such as vend in vending place, vend online, vend by agents, hand-held mobile devices (POS, APP), ATM, short messages, scratch cards etc. It can also manage the commissions generated from the vending methods.
Multi-Level Management Mode and SSL Digi-Certificate Verification Mechanism
Multi-Level Management and SSL Digital Certificate verification ensure the security of vending system.

What are the benefits?

• Convenient Vending.
• Pay as you go & Prepayment.
• Multi-channel vending.
• STS & Smart Card.
• Revenue Enhancement.
• Reduces fraud.
• Provides management and customer services (automatic readings, multi-tariff possibilities).
• End user controls consumption & debt.