In the GMO Internet Group, with GMO DIGITAL Lab K. K. (President & Chief Executive Officer: Yuichi Yamada, GMO DIGITAL Lab), which is a consolidated company of GMO GlobalSign Holdings K.K. (TSE: 3788, President & Chief Executive Officer: Mitsuru Aoyama) , GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. (TSE: Securities Code 3769, President & Chief Executive Officer: Issei Ainoura, GMO-PG), which develops comprehensive payment-related services and finance-related services in the same group, is a municipalities and business operator. A "watching function" was added to the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO YORO town, a service that digitizes paper gift certificates issued by the company, from Thursday, February 17, Takashi Ohashi. We will provide it to YORO town).
YORO town, we will add a "watching function" as a new function of "Yoro Pay", a smartphone payment service unique to YORO town that is developed by utilizing the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO". Through the provision of the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO", GMO DIGITAL Lab and GMO-PG will create a sustainable town ^{(* 1)} by realizing the "town where people are happy and worth living", which YORO town has set as the future image of town development. We will support you.

• (* 1) YORO town Town Development Vision Overview URL: https://www.town.yoro.gifu.jp/docs/2021030200015/files/gaiyou.pdf

Since October 2021, GMO GMO DIGITAL Lab and GMO-PG have been providing "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO," a service that digitizes paper gift certificates issued by municipalities governments and businesses. By digitizing the "premium gift certificate" issued for the purpose of revitalizing the local economy, municipalities governments that introduce this service will be able to reduce the workload of issuing paper gift certificates and respond to cashless payments. DX can be realized. Starting today, February 17, 2022 (Thursday), as a new feature of the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO", users who have set in advance that they will purchase or use a digital gift certificate will receive a purchase / use notification and purchase / use. Added a "watching function" that allows you to check the usage history.
From the same day, this function will be used in YORO town Town's original smartphone payment service "Yoro Pay," which is being developed by YORO town using the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO." In YORO town, we are promoting sustainable town development by introducing the SDGs' concept of "Sustainable cities and communities" in all fields. "Yoro Pay" is used in a wide range of age groups, with more than 50% of users in their 50s or older ^{(* 2)}. By installing this function, parents can watch over their children and move away from YORO town. Since it can be used by families living in the same town to watch over the families living in the town, promotion of the town development theme-based strategies such as "a town with a large number of related populations" and "a town where everyone can support each other and live in good health and peace of mind". Can be expected to contribute to. By providing the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO", GMO GMO DIGITAL Lab and GMO-PG will be sustainable by realizing the business DX of YORO town and the future vision of the town, "a town where people are fun and rewarding." We support town development.
GMO GMO DIGITAL Lab and GMO-PG will continue to expand the development of "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO" to municipalities governments and businesses.

• (* 2) As of February 17, 2022

"Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO" is a service that can digitize paper gift certificates issued by municipalities governments and businesses. For municipalities governments and businesses, issuing gift certificates on paper involves selling gift certificates mainly face-to-face, and collecting, storing, tabulating, settling, and cashing used gift certificates. In addition, with the spread of cashless payment, the demand for digitization of gift certificates is increasing. By using this service, municipalities governments and businesses can introduce digitalization of gift certificates without the need to develop a system, reduce the workload of issuing paper gift certificates, and realize cashless support.
By digitizing gift certificates, consumers can purchase gift certificates at any time and place 24 hours a day, and can use them in units of 1 yen. If you register to use the digital version of the gift certificate on the dedicated site, complete the charge by Credit card payment or CVS Payment ^{(* 3)} on the site, and then read the QR code at the store where the gift certificate can be used, you will get cash. It can be used as a cashless payment.
In addition, at stores where gift certificates can be used, a wide range of customers can be expected to visit and promote their use, and paper-specific management and cashing operations that occur with paper gift certificates can be reduced. In addition, it is possible to analyze the usage status of digital gift certificates in your store using the dashboard dedicated to the store and use it as marketing data.
In this service, GMO GMO DIGITAL Lab is in charge of system development, and GMO-PG is in charge of sales to municipalities governments and businesses.

• (* 3) Corresponding payment method will be added in the future.

Established in 1993, GMO GMO DIGITAL Lab is a company that operates in areas such as Tokyo, Sendai, Niigata, and Shizuoka, centered on the Sapporo head office. Through the provision of digital solution services, we will transform the business model of companies and solve management issues through "digital transformation" (DX).
The main service, the smartphone app production service "GMO Omise App", contributes to solving various problems faced by companies by developing apps suitable for each company (store) in a short period of time and at a low price. In addition to attracting customers and supporting sales promotion at stores, it contributes to the transformation of companies into a digital business model, such as streamlining operations using apps, utilizing customer data, and linking with external systems such as POS. We will solve various problems with the app.
Going forward, GMO GMO DIGITAL Lab will continue to focus on the realization of a convenient, rich and smiling society under the mission of "changing things with IT."