Comments on: Absence of Mobile Commerce http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/07/10/absence-of-mobile-commerce/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Trace Johnson http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/07/10/absence-of-mobile-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-296211 Trace Johnson Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:25:18 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=571#comment-296211 Mpayy's Mobile website allows sellers to receive payments "on the go." We turn any mobile web-enabled cell phone into a Mobile Point of Sale system. Fees are just $0.20 + 2.00%, which is less than PayPal online, and certainly less than their mobile fees. The target audience is the 14 million direct salespeople doing $30 billion in sales per year (Direct Selling Association, 2006) including AVON, Mary Kay, Taxi Cabs, tshirt vendors at concerts etc. However, for person-to-person transactions, there are no fees, and the payment can be made anywhere. We also support advanced account management features including viewing previous activity and making withdrawals to your linked bank account from the phone. We have the off deck payment capability. Now it's just a matter of getting folks to use it! Mpayy’s Mobile website allows sellers to receive payments “on the go.” We turn any mobile web-enabled cell phone into a Mobile Point of Sale system. Fees are just $0.20 + 2.00%, which is less than PayPal online, and certainly less than their mobile fees.

The target audience is the 14 million direct salespeople doing $30 billion in sales per year (Direct Selling Association, 2006) including AVON, Mary Kay, Taxi Cabs, tshirt vendors at concerts etc.

However, for person-to-person transactions, there are no fees, and the payment can be made anywhere.

We also support advanced account management features including viewing previous activity and making withdrawals to your linked bank account from the phone.

We have the off deck payment capability. Now it’s just a matter of getting folks to use it!

]]> By: miker http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/07/10/absence-of-mobile-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-296191 miker Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:06:18 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=571#comment-296191 Awesome, thanks for the pointer Dan! Awesome, thanks for the pointer Dan!

]]> By: Daniel Appelquist http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2008/07/10/absence-of-mobile-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-296184 Daniel Appelquist Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:35:03 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=571#comment-296184 We had some good discussion on this point at the "Mobile Web 2.0 Summit" held in London last month (http://www.mobilewebsummit.com/). Mark Curtis from Flirtomatic (http://www.flirtomatic.com) in particular talked about their success (and also some frustrations) in getting people to pay for goods (in this case virtual "presents") in a social network off-deck context. They are a definite success story in this space. Podcast interview with Mark from SMS Text News should be available shortly here: http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/07/having_a_chat_with_mark_curtis_of_flirtomatic.html. We had some good discussion on this point at the “Mobile Web 2.0 Summit” held in London last month (http://www.mobilewebsummit.com/). Mark Curtis from Flirtomatic (http://www.flirtomatic.com) in particular talked about their success (and also some frustrations) in getting people to pay for goods (in this case virtual “presents”) in a social network off-deck context. They are a definite success story in this space. Podcast interview with Mark from SMS Text News should be available shortly here: http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/07/having_a_chat_with_mark_curtis_of_flirtomatic.html.

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