56 FDJ retailers offer the outsourced payment service of the General Directorate of Public Finances in Reunion (DGFiP), which allows you to pay fines and other public services close to home.
No need to travel miles to pay fines, canteens, Municipal crèches and other public services ... You just have to identify in its neighborhood a brand of the French Games and ask the tobacconist if he ensures the collection of receivables. More and more of them do it. We now find them in almost all municipalities. This possibility has existed since the beginning of 2020. The State and the FDJ remained rather discreet on this device. They let him develop at his own pace. Information has mainly circulated by word of mouth. The increasing demand, The number of tobacconists approved by the DGFIP has increased in proportion. Today there are 56 in Reunion on 300 points of sale. A proportion significantly equivalent to that of the metropolis. Confinement has slowed down the deployment of the system. Things started to really move at the end of last year, Side offer and request side. Anecdotal at first, Transactions are now amounting by thousands. It's only recently, When signing the commitment charter for the "new public finance network",In the prefecture on April 16, that we talked about, briefly, the payment of receivables from the FDJ partner tobacconists.
An air call for small trade
Everything started from a DGFIP call for tenders in 2019 aimed at creating local secure collection places, in order to outsource payments of payments and no longer have to handle species at your counters, but also to facilitate the receivables of receivables by the public. Two companies responded : La Banque Postale and La Française des Jeux in partnership with the Confederation of tobacconists. With its 30,000 points of sale, its ultra-secure computer system and the more extensive timetables of its tobacconist partners, The FDJ won the call for tenders. The Departmental FDJ agencies have started to find out of tobacconists interested in providing their customers from this new service. Proximity payments give an additional reason to frequent neighborhood shops that need them, especially in Reunion in the Hauts.
The "yes but" of a tobacconist
Azize Féride, Manager of the Bouvet lotto in Saint-Denis, was among the first to integrate the collection of receivables into its activity. " Globally, It is a very practical service for customers, It brings us additional passage customers who are tempted to play lotto, to buy games or something that may interest them. There is only one drawback. It concerns payments by bank card. Banks take a percentage commission on bank card transactions. Beyond a certain amount collected, The commission that we pay at the bank is greater than our fixed committee of 1,50 euro. A solution should be found to this problem. »
The FDJ wants to go further
The FDJ retailer enters the payment by having the bar code read of the administrative invoice read by its datamatrix which brings the transaction to the DGFIP. The regulations are made in cash or by bank card. The retailer receives a fixed commission by transaction carried out (1,50 euro) and not according to the amount of the transaction. To date are concerned the payments of fines and a dozen public taxes and services of local authorities or public establishments such as hospitals. More, in collaboration with the Confederation of tobacconists, The French Games intends to go much further by developing this formula beyond public services. Inspired by the example of Italy where the Italian lotto offers 100 public and private services, The FDJ studies 50 services that could be paid in its points of sale by 2025. HLM Rent, TV subscription, electricity ... there is no shortage of possibilities. What strengthen the attraction of receivables by the tobacconists still hesitant.
