Nottingham BID introduces new mobile payment and info platform for local businesses

As pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels, hair salons and barbers across the city centre being to reopen, Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID) is introducing a whole new way of ordering and paying for goods in the city with a mobile platform to ensure social distancing can be maintained for a high level of customer and staff safety.

By simply scanning a QR code in a venue, customers can access the menus, unlock promotions, make an order and pay. There is no need to download an app, and this can be done on any smartphone via any internet browser. The platform reduces queues and increases customer turnover in hospitality venues with mobile ordering.

The service is being offered to businesses in the BID zone, for free , as part of Nottingham BID’s commitment to supporting city centre businesses reopen and trade safely after the unprecedented impact of COVID-19.

Find out more about the platform here.

Business reopening packs with information about what businesses should be considering ahead of opening along with, hand sanitiser, social distancing markers, posters with a handwashing guide , window vinyls and streets markers are just a few of the other measures that Nottingham BID has implemented as part of its phased recovery plan for the city.

Nottingham BID, in partnership with Nottingham City Council, has delivered a city wide campaign to ensure a safe and welcoming city centre for visitors, residents and businesses and focused their efforts on the requirements and needs of their levy payers to help them safely return to work.

Additional funding has also been made available to support Nottingham BID’s already existing rapid urban cleaning service that they deliver to members in the city centre, in conjunction with Nottingham City Council. The extra funding has allowed the council’s cleaning team to deliver additional regimes to ensure high contact areas of the city centre are being safely and routinely cleaned.

“Our main job is to support our levy payers as much as we can and to help people regain their confidence to come back into Nottingham by creating a safe environment,” commented Polly Reade, a director of Nottingham BID and operations manager of JunkBars.

Ms Reade went on say: “There are a number of challenges when it comes to re-opening, and one of the most important of those is making sure consumers feel safe. The mobile platform will be an invaluable tool as we welcome people back to the city centre and by working together we’re confident we can get Nottingham back on its feet.”