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MALVERN, Pa., Sep 24, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- USA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAT) announced today that it had signed a three-year supplier agreement with Compass Group and their Canteen Vending Services division to bring the convenience of cashless vending to Canteen customers in the United States.

Compass Group selected USA Technologies as its leading provider of cashless vending systems hardware, related software and services for a period of three years.

"USA Technologies is delighted to be a preferred provider of cashless transaction solutions to Compass, a worldwide leader in vending," said Stephen P. Herbert, President and COO, USA Technologies. "Compass Group is known for its focus on exceptional customer service and innovation. The company's recognition of the added convenience that payment card acceptance delivers to consumers and vendors and its commitment to deploying ePort^(R) cashless vending technology in their vending business proves that out. The unique combination of USAT's business deployment planning program, which helps hand-select locations that will result in higher margins and our QuickStart Program, which eliminates any upfront capital investment, provides value to the customer and makes great business sense. Compass was quick to recognize that," he said.

The QuickStart Program http://www.usatech.com/eport/eport_quickstart.php is USAT's custom leasing program that eliminates upfront capital investment in the ePort cashless solution, and makes the transition to cashless vending quicker and easier by rolling hardware and services into one low monthly fee.

USA Technologies is working closely to support Compass Group and Canteen's franchisees to ensure a seamless and successful transition to card acceptance.

USA Technologies is a global market leader in network and financial services for unattended point-of-sale terminals with more than 15 years proven experience. The company has an installed base of 50,000 ePort terminals processing in excess of two million cashless transactions per month through magnetic-stripe and contactless cards.

Its ePort EDGE(TM) and ePort G8 devices offer best-in-class hardware supported by the ePort Connect full suite of services that includes PCI level 1 compliant payment processing, merchant services, over-the-air updates, online reporting through USALive, and wireless DEX data transmission.

About Compass Group North America

Based in Charlotte NC, Compass Group North America is the leading foodservice and support services company with more than $9 billion in revenues in 2008. With 388,000 associates worldwide, its parent company, UK-based Compass Group PLC had revenues of Lira11 billion in the year to September 30, 2008. www.cgnad.com

About Canteen Vending Services:

Canteen Vending Services is the only national vending company and is an operating sector of Compass Group North America. Serving over five million customers every day through 18,500 client sites, Canteen's 80 year legacy of innovation continues to redefine the vending experience with the latest in convenience retailing. www.canteen.com Contact: Sarah Hada, 704-328-1365, sarah.hada@compass-usa.com

About USA Technologies:

USA Technologies is a leader in the networking of wireless non-cash transactions, associated financial/network services and energy management. USA Technologies provides networked credit card and other non-cash systems in the vending, commercial laundry, hospitality and digital imaging industries. The Company has agreements with AT&T, Visa, MasterCard, First Data, Compass and others.

Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act:

With the exception of the historical information contained in this release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters herein described, including but not limited to, product acceptance, the ability to continually obtained increased orders of its products, the ability to meet installation goals, economic, competitive, governmental impacts, whether pending patents will be granted or defendable, validity of intellectual property and patents, the ability to license patents, the ability to commercialize developmental products, as well as technological and/or other factors.

SOURCE: USA Technologies, Inc.

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