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About Us

HTEC Ltd is a major provider of payment and loyalty solutions for the Petroleum Retailing industry in Europe.

The UK Head Office is located in a purpose built 46,000 sq ft facility in Southampton with excellent transport links, being less than 500 meters from Air, Rail and Road (Southampton Airport, Southampton Parkway Station (Waterloo direct) and M27/M3 ).

Established in 1979, HTEC has enjoyed major growth from its investments in software and specialist hardware and the Company now provides payment and loyalty solutions for most of the UK’s major petrol retailers as well as significant deployments in Europe, with much of the company’s technology is focused on areas requiring legislative and regulatory approvals related to banking, trading standards and petroleum retailing.

The approvals environment requires specialist knowledge, patience and investment which HTEC has perfected and these skills are a major strength to the business and a strong barrier to entry for would be competitors.

HTECs product and service line up includes:

  • Chip & PIN Outdoor Payment Terminals
  • Gemini Payment Terminals & PIN Pads with their specialist design to suit the alpha numeric requirements of petrol retailers.
  • Loyalty Terminals HTEC offers several models of terminal to suit every requirement.
  • HydraPOS A wholly integrated EPOS system with Convenience retailing, fuel control and Chip & PIN EFT all in one device.
  • On Line Loyalty A powerful full suite, online system, with all of the modules required to implement and operate a loyalty scheme on a regional or global basis.
  • Virtual Back Office. A real time, true, thin client system. Allowing retailers to manage distributed retail outlets from a host location, with all of the cost efficiencies of a web based system.
  • Automatic Number Plate Recognition and Drive Off Prevention. A sophisticated, on line, system that captures vehicle numbers as they attempt to fuel and denies fueling where the database shows a record of driving off without paying.
  • Gift & Cash Card. An online system that provides the total gift and cash card service that modern customer loyalty driven retailers require.
  • E-Support centers Using its web based and on line technology to best advantage, HTEC provides on line, real time support with some very sophisticated and automated system checking technology. For any one retailers scheme HTEC carries out up to 15000 automated system checks per day and the support center typically resolves over 86% of calls without resorting to field visits.