Barrhead Travel launches new rewards smartcard

Scotland-based-travel agency Barrhead Travel has launched a new rewards smartcard. The card will offer a five percent cashback reward for any travel booking made, with additional discounts offered to existing sQuid account holders.

The scheme will initially be piloted in Barrhead Travel’s Dundee store with a view to rolling it out across other branches in the near future.

“Our innovative smartcard-based rewards programme is another way of giving a little extra back, while acknowledging and maintaining a great relationship with our clients,” said Mark Brock, director, Barrhead Travel.

The company has tied up with sQuid, the eMoney payments network, for this initiative.

The contactless smartcard-based scheme will be operated by sQuid, which already provides a number of smartcard services in Dundee.

The company mentioned that loyalty cards cost £5, but give back £10 to the customer’s loyalty purse once registered online with sQuid. Cardholders are then rewarded with five percent of the booking value of all overseas holidays, which is credited to the customer’s card loyalty purse and can be redeemed against future bookings.

sQuid’s low cost pre-pay model enables contactless transactions in retail, digital and virtual commerce, bypassing bank and credit card networks, with its own FSA-compliant eMoney platform, featuring bank-grade security.