Now, you can pay your cab fare with a credit card

Hyderabad: Buoyed by the popularity of credit cards payment facility for customers in Bangalore, India's largest radio cab service provider Meru Cabs has  extended the alternate payment facility for customers in Hyderabad city.

Meru Cabs has tied up with Axis Bank as its merchant bank to facilitate card transactions in its cabs. Visa and Master Cards debit / credit cards will be accepted for fare payment. Also Meru Cabs will introduce various promotion programmes to promote payment by cards.

''We got a feedback from our consumers regarding their preference for payment through a credit card, especially if they happen to fall short while paying for their fares," says Rajesh Puri, CEO, Meru Cabs.

He added, ''Cities like New York, Boston and Tokyo have the facility of paying by cash or card in the radio cabs. In fact, it is a mandate in these cities for the radio cabs to have a card payment option for the passengers. Our goal is to replicate these revolutionary services in India and offer our passengers a truly comfortable & world-class travel experience.''

With total of 4,800 cabs, Meru is the largest radio cab service provider in India and to meet the ever increasing passenger demand it has been constantly scaling up its presence in the four operational cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Also its presence at the airports of the four cities has helped in adding to the international class provided by these airports.

For better comforts of the passengers and to keep up with the changing times Meru has been upgrading its technology regularly. Recently, the company implemented an Oracle ERP system, implemented by Accenture, which makes Meru Cabs the first radio cabs service company in the world to implement ERP systems.

Meru phone-in metered call taxi services were launched in Mumbai in association with India Value Fund Advisors in April 2007.