Already, using our GiftBox service, you could send transfer money from your credit card/paypal account to the mobile phones of your family and friends. This service has gained popularity outside Africa, where use of credit cards and paypal accounts are the norm.
But what about those in Africa? Well, we’ve been working on a series of services that will allow you to use your mobile phone to pay for goods and services, and today we’re glad to announce the first phase of this roll-out:
If you have a Beyonic Web-services account, you can now update your account credit from your mobile phone!
Read on to find out how …
Late last year, we announced that like you, we disliked having to create a new username and password for each web service we tried to use, and because of that, we’d enabled OpenID and Oauth support at Beyonic Web Services, which allowed you to sign up/login with your google, yahoo, twitter, flickr and other such ids.
One significant omission at the time was the ability to login with your Facebook account. Today, we’re starting to make good on our promise to integrate our services with Facebook by letting you do just that: login with your Facebook account!
It’s as easy as ever. Just select “Facebook” from the drop down menu on the login form, and you will be redirected to Facebook to authorize “Beyonic Web Services”, once that’s done, u’re logged in!
This is the first part of our Facebook integration. We’re putting final touches to the second part, which will bring Beyonic GiftBox to your Facebook profile!
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If you’ve been around for any period of time, chances are:
- You already have an account with Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc – in fact you have more than one already
- You frown every time you come across yet another website that wants you to create a user account before you can access its services
We feel the same way, and this is where OpenID (and a little OAuth) comes in. These technologies allow you to login to Beyonic Services using your existing account at one of the websites I mentioned earlier. This is exciting because you no longer need to fill out a lengthy sign up form to test our services… Read More >>
Today we’re excited to announce GiftBox – a service that enables you to share mobile and electronic cash and gifts with friends and family worldwide!
We’re starting out with 2 major gifts you can send: Mobile Money – MPESA (Kenya), ZAP (Kenya and Uganda) and MTN Mobile Money (Uganda) and Airtime-Online products – Prepaid airtime vouchers for Kenya and Uganda. We’ll be rolling out more gifts for Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe over the next month or so. If there’s a gift you’d like to see in GiftBox, let us know! Contact Us or Discuss your idea with other giftboxers in the forums!
What makes GiftBox even more interesting is that you can have your own giftbox! If you’re a blogger, a webmaster, or simply want to spice up your intranet, grab a giftbox of your own & as a bonus “goodie”, you earn whenever your giftbox is “opened”! – and you can customize your giftbox to match your website. Learn more here!
Lastly, watch out for a facebook app – coming soon to a pc near you…
We recently re-vamped Airtime Online, adding lots of new features and setting up a hosted offering for public consumption. Find out more at the airtime-online blog!
