Pay Offline new payments system from Alliance and Leicester
This is interesting, not a mobile thing again but it’s left me wondering how much work would be involved in making this a mobile friendly service:
If the customer has to print a bar-code they then take to the shop it sounds perfect to be hacked (in a nice way) to support sending the bar-code to the mobile! It gets rid of the need to waste more trees by printing stuff out.
It’s a thought anyway and nice to see the off-line payments folk changing their business model to a more open and attractive one for merchants of all sizes. Years ago I looked at accepting PayZone or similar for the ringtone sites, they wanted money up front, fees each month and offered worse out-payments than the networks.
Now for merchants there’s limited free signup and out payments that spank SMS. I’d like this for the ringtones and for the hosting, it’d be sweet to accept cash over the counter at thousands of retail outlets.
Chargeback free payments up to £999, the possibility of making it work on a mobile too!
This sounds pretty cool if you ask me.