AcceptEmail

Tuesday 7 February 2012 AcceptEmail demonstrated a feature that enables mobile bill pay:
“Recently we have added a Short Invoice Service, which creates an electronic bill, including payment capability for mobile phones using SMS, WhatsApp or Twitter. This new feature of AcceptEmail adds the mobile space to the service and enables fully automated credit management. AcceptEmail has also expanded their set of payments methods that can be used via PSP’s with the availability of many new international online payment methods, debit, and credit cards.”
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Online shopping was a pain before I got my first credit card. Painstakingly transferring money from my bank account to an online vendor is not ideal. With a credit card though, online shopping becomes easy. For the unlucky few who cannot get a credit card, online shopping dreams are dashed. Not so, says Triloq Payment Services. Its products, 1-2-Pay Online and AcceptEmail have been in development from January 2011 and aim to “free” the user from online shopping payment grief, allowing users to add funds from their bank accounts into a virtual credit card, and email bill payments. This month, the service opens up to the crowd desperate to shop online.
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AcceptEmail will perform at FinovateEurope, the prestigious showcase of cutting-edge financial technology innovations from leading established companies and hot new startups. Live on stage in London we will present our newest feature – the world’s first Short Invoicing Service.

As one of two Dutch companies we are selected to demonstrate our newest invention at FinovateEurope2012, a demo-based conference for innovative startups and established companies in the fields of banking and financial technology. Held on February 7th in the heart of the Financial District in London, the event offers an insight-packed glimpse of the future of banking and finance via fast-paced seven minutes product demonstrations.

Peter Kwakernaak, CEO AcceptEmail: “After the successful launch of our international platform last year, we are looking forward to go on stage at Finovate again. This time we will demonstrate our innovative Short Invoicing Service. This new extension of our service allows senders to simply convert an AcceptEmail into a text message and send it to customers via WhatApp, SMS or social media. The bill can then be paid quickly and safely via credit card, debit card such as Maestro, PayPal or via mobile banking.”

Kwakernaak continues: “We facilitate companies to digitally send bills through multiple communication channels, while maintaining a safe and prompt payment by their customers. The threshold for switching to digital invoices is thus further reduced or even eliminated.”

Eric Mattson, CEO of The Finovate Group: “”We’re very pleased to have AcceptEmail demonstrating their newest innovation in mobile payments on stage at FinovateEurope. Mobile payments are growing quickly and we think AcceptEmail’s focus on making the payment of bills easier on mobile devices opens exciting possibilities.”

About FinovateEurope
FinovateEurope is organized by The Finovate Group. For more information on the event or to view videos of previous demos, please visit http://www.finovate.com/europe2012.

AcceptEmail launches a revolutionary way of billing and collecting. The inventor of billing and payment via e-mail introduces AcceptSMS, the world’s first Short Invoice Service. With this development, users of AcceptEmail are now able to send their customers a payment request via a SMS text message in an easy and clever way.

Safe and secure: sending payment requests by AcceptSMS
The new feature to the existing service allows senders to simply convert an AcceptEmail into an AcceptSMS. A short URL sends the recipient via mobile internet to the secured AcceptEmail transaction page. From this landing page the payment can be done, choosing one of the many available payment methods. The outstanding amount can be safely paid via credit card, debit card or online banking and soon also via mobile banking.

Peter Kwakernaak, CEO AcceptEmail: “Mobile payments are quickly becoming safer and widely available. More and more people are downloading apps for mobile banking and the widespread usage will be just a matter of time. Payment via social media of all kinds of bills will soon also be just as common as via traditional ways. Being a trendsetter in the world of electronic billing and payments people expects us to keep innovating and be ahead of the crowd.”

Effective communication improves customer contact
AcceptSMS can be helpful when mails bounce or stay unopened, or when the (correct) email details are not available or up-to-date. Managing your customer data will lead to more effective customer relation management according to Kwakernaak. “It gives your company the ability to match the way of communicating with your customers (or vice versa) with the information that is in your database. Companies that control and update the metadata of their customers, are able to communicate better via multiple channels, resulting in improved customer service and better results in collections. By offering modern and customer friendly payment methods through more than one channel, you can improve your customers’ payment behavior dramatically.”

Innovation, but not at the expense of safety
As much as the classic AcceptEmail that has proved its value for quite some time now, the new AcceptSMS is also optimally secured. Kwakernaak concludes: “A uniform user experience, verifiability and security are our top priority and we will constantly meet and exceed the standards of our own security framework. With this new feature we want to set yet another standard in the way that companies invoice their customers and consumers or SME companies pay their bills. ”