LevelUp asks smartphone users to use a QR code to pay for their meals

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Startup company in mobile payments focuses on both transactions and loyalty benefits. This year, mobile wallets are finally catching on, as many were hoping would occur in 2011, and startup business, LevelUp, is throwing down its own gauntlet with a unique angle designed specifically for patrons of restaurants, which uses a QR code. The company is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is placing a focus on customer loyalty in the strategy for its mobile payments app. It works by allowing restaurant customers to use their smartphones to scan a barcode…

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LevelUp follows an example left by Starbucks concerning mobile payments and businesses

LevelUp Mobile Payments with QR Codes

LevelUp, a mobile payment platform for smart phones and other mobile devices, has re-launched one of its most popular services. The service was once built to track deals and bargains offered by local retailers in any given area. LevelUp chose to discontinue the service because it did not mesh well with the platform at the time. Now, however, the company has taken a new approach to developing a new system, one that is based loosely on a model being used by Starbucks. Starbucks’ mobile payment system uses an app that…

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