Mastercard Innovation | Innovative Payment Technology Solutions

Innovation is at the heart of Mastercard’s nearly 50-year history. We take an innovative, value-driven approach to the solutions we create and services we offer, making transactions faster, easier, and more convenient and secure.

One of the many ways in which we innovate is through our culture and people. We hire talented, inventive employees such as those in our Labs group. We also encourage all employees to participate in efforts that cultivate innovation in local communities such as STEM programs. In addition, we showcase innovation through products such as Qkr!, Masterpass^TM and tokenization that powers solutions like Apple Pay^TM to deliver value to consumers, merchants and banks alike. And, through outreach to developers and entrepreneurs, we are helping to facilitate improvements across the payments ecosystem that will generate future innovations.

By underpinning innovation in everything we do, we are transforming the way people pay and get paid, helping businesses grow, improving the shopping experience and advancing financial inclusion around the world.

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Qkr™ for schools

The most advanced school online payments package - Qkr by Mastercard® is the mobile phone payment app designed for Australian schools, delivering the most advanced and the most competitive online payment system in Australia. Qkr delivers convenience to parents, efficiency to canteen staff and excellent reporting to school office staff. It’s the perfect choice for any school looking to streamline payments.

Convenience for parents - For busy parents and carers, finding time to pay fees, buy uniforms and order school lunches can be tough. That’s why Qkr! by Mastercard was created. It’s an easy-to-use mobile app for iPhones and Android smartphones and tablets that makes school payments a breeze. Your parents and carers will love having the flexibility to pay fees and place orders at a time and place that suits them.

Improves processes for office staff - Administration staff and canteen managers often spend valuable time chasing up, processing and reconciling payments. Qkr! by Mastercard will make these challenges a breeze with the simplicity of fast, secure payments straight to the school account. Comprehensive reporting makes it quick and easy for office staff to track and follow the payments and transaction activities.

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Walking the talk of innovation

As a technology company, we invest in the world’s fastest payments processing network and breakthrough products