Archive for November, 2009

Sell more with mobile payments from 65(!) countries

November 30, 2009

Starting this month, we are bringing text/SMS-based mobile payments to even more customers in 65 additional countries, reaching 4 billion phone devices worldwide!

The rollout starts with 35 European and American countries, with 30 more countries following until the end of January 2010. Existing daopay merchants can immediately benefit from this expansion by logging in to their Control Center. If you don’t have an account yet: sign up now, it’s free and easy to integrate into your web site!

Daopay currently enables online users in more than 200 countries to instantly pay for virtual goods and other online content by just dialing a service number from their home or mobile phone – without a credit card, bank account or online registration.

The future of the web? Micropayments!

November 30, 2009

Cameron Chapman of noupe, the web design blog, has asked what the web will look like five years from now. His number one? Micropayments.

“Micro-payments of the future may be closely-related to mobile payment systems. Payment via cell phone opens up whole new area of economic opportunity, particularly in areas where cell phones are more prevalent than computers. Being able to make and receive very small payments, the equivalent of a dollar or less in many cases, via a mobile device paves the way for many in developing nations to participate in the Internet economy in a way that only a few years ago might not have been deemed possible.”

I’m tempted to say that we couldn’t agree more, and in fact, I do. Let me just mention that paying by home phones isn’t a bad choice either :)

Read more about micropayments and The Future of The Web on noupe.