British gaming hall association Bacta updates its safer gambling portal
Bacta has updated the functionality of its bactaPortal.
UK.- The British Amusement Catering Trade Association (Bacta) has updated its safer gambling hub, bactaPortal. The portal allows gambling venues to maintain paperless records of customer interactions and self-exclusions and to host training modules. The portal is available to all, but Bacta members receive a subsidised price.
Version 2 of the portal features a new customer interaction recording solution, self-exclusion, a compliance handbook and compatibility on mobile, desktop and tablet. There are plans to introduce on-line training, age verification and a business toolkit
Russell Edge, bacta’s membership, social responsibility and compliance manager, said: “The Portal has received fantastic feedback since it was launched in September and we have stayed true to our promise to constantly update and review the content and add new functionality.
“I am proud to announce that Version 2 is now available to users and we will be demonstrating the many features at the upcoming EAG show in March.”
He added: “It is particularly exciting that we are working with other industry bodies to make some of their training modules and other applications available to bacta members over the Portal.
“We will be making further announcements on this in due course. In addition to the content itself, we have tweaked the user experience based on feedback. This means that users can log in quicker and navigate across features with fewer clicks. There are new animations and quicker filtering and error messages are clearer. This functionality all adds up to a slicker user experience.”
Bacta, which represents gaming halls and amusement arcades, has called for more flexibility to trial new products and solutions. It called for the UK government to create a regulatory sandbox for gaming machine development to allow the sector to innovate.
Last year, the association set up a working group on machine gaming standards.
