Penn State launches new mobile id+ card for students - WTAJ - www.wtaj.com

by: Rian Bossler

Posted: Jan 20, 2023 / 05:29 PM EST

Updated: Jan 20, 2023 / 05:29 PM EST

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (WTAJ) — Penn State students tin present usage their mobile phones to entree field lodging and conveniently wage for meals astatine the University.

The recently mobile id+ paper that launched Friday, Jan. 20 tin beryllium accessed connected iPhones, Apple Watches oregon Androids. Students tin acceptable up their mobile id+ paper by downloading the Transact eAccounts app oregon entree the Penn State Go app and prime the id+ paper icon.

“The University is 1 measurement person to a seamless pupil experience,” Assistant Vice President for Auxiliary and Business Services David Snyder said. “Now, students tin usage their mobile id+ paper to entree resources and implicit transactions with conscionable a elemental pat of their device, giving our students the state and convenience of a integer campus.”

With the caller mobile id+ card, students tin simply clasp their instrumentality to a scholar to entree residence halls and commons buildings, marque transactions utilizing LionCash, entree their repast plans, marque purchases astatine vending machines and wage for laundry.

Penn State is besides installing contactless and tap-to-pay exertion done a phased attack astatine each campuses. Physical cards volition stay necessary, arsenic not each University locations volition judge mobile-only transactions, and entree to world buildings and different facilities and resources whitethorn inactive necessitate the carnal id+ paper to beryllium present.

Visit the Penn State mobile id+ paper website for much information.