Planet Extends Its Strategic Partnership With Flowbird to Provide Parking Payments Services Across Europe

Planet, a global provider of integrated payments and technology solutions, has announced a three-year contract extension with, a global leader in urban mobility, offering advanced solutions in parking, transport and mobile services.

Flowbird’s leading solutions span 6,000 cities across 80 countries, processing over two billion parking and transport transactions every year.

Building on the existing partnership, this new agreement significantly expands Planet’s role from providing payments gateway services, to delivering a comprehensive range of payments solutions across both card-present and ecommerce channels.

The partnership will streamline payment processes through Flowbird’s mobility apps, parking meters and transport ticket vending machines, offering a unified solution across all payment options including unattended terminals, EV charging stations and digital transactions.

Customers will also benefit from enhanced payments security and fraud prevention, offline authorisation and a dedicated Flowbird support programme.

Through the partnership, Flowbird is now able to offer a full range of flexible payment methods including all major cards, local payment methods and digital wallets.

Colin Close, Chief Commercial Officer at Planet, said: “We’re thrilled to strengthen our long-standing partnership with Flowbird through this strategic extension to our existing relationship. We’re making the payments process seamless for operators and end customers by integrating our full suite of payment services with Flowbird’s mobility solutions.

“Through this partnership, we’re committed to supporting the ever-evolving needs of the urban mobility sector.”

Christophe Evrot, Managing Director Flowbird Up, said: “We’re particularly excited to have extended our partnership with Planet. It means we can now commonly offer our customers a fully integrated solution covering all verticals of our businesses with unattended payment for parking and transit, EV charging and mobile payments. This will allow cross and omnichannel scenarios, taking advantage of Planet’s processing and acquiring capabilities.”

About Flowbird

Flowbird solutions are used in 4,350 cities in 80 countries to make journeys effortless.

Our relentless desire to enable mobility, through frictionless technology, which gives back time to us all, is the driving force behind our innovations. We are dedicated to complete, data-led solutions, which can be used to inform mobility policy and make a positive impact.

About Planet 

Planet is a revenue-generating payments service and technology provider. Planet helps businesses meet the needs of their customers by simplifying complex payments, helping people spend freely. Planet serves 550,000 merchants and 100 partner banks across more than 60 markets on five continents, Planet provides a single payments platform that offers acquiring, VAT Refund and Currency Conversion services. Planet is part of the Eurazeo portfolio of growth companies.
Find out more here: www.PlanetPayment.com