Innovation For Change

What is GiftBox?

GiftBox is a distributed web service. It is deployed as a customizable web-widget that can be added to any website. As an Early Adopter, you would add it to your website/blog/web-portal by adding a few lines of JavaScript code. If you have added Google Ads to your website, then you are familiar with this process.

Gift Box allows your website visitors to send money and various gifts directly to friends and family. Our goal is to provide a convenient, affordable useful web service to as many people as possible, connecting Africa to the world.

Available Gifts

Using your GiftBox, your website visitors can currently send any of the following items to Kenya and Uganda:

• Web to Mobile Money transfer direct to mobile phone (SAFARICOM MPESA, ZAIN ZAP (Kenya and Uganda), MTN MOBILE MONEY)
• Prepaid Airtime for all networks in Kenya & Uganda (Rwanda coming soon)
• Shopping Vouchers for top shopping arcades & super markets including Uchumi, Nakumatt, Game, Shoprite, Mr. Price, Woolworths etc
• Movie Tickets to 5 top cinemas in both Uganda & Kenya
• Book Shop Vouchers for 5 top bookstores in Uganda & Kenya
• Restaurant/Eat-Out Vouchers for such places as Javas, Steers & Nandoes (Kenya & Uganda)

We’re constantly working with our partners, users and customers to avail new and exciting gifts. A full updated list of available gifts can he found here.

What are the benefits of having your own GiftBox?

• GiftBox is an easy way to add more functionality to your website/blog without having to worry about e-commerce, shopping carts, payment processing and endless partnerships and integration.
• When you engage your website visitors by providing new exciting services, they tend to return. In this way, GiftBox can increase your visitor retention as well as new & repeat customers.
• Our profit share model gives you one more way to easily monetize your web-traffic. You get a share of all transactions made via your GiftBox.

What’s in it for Early Adopters?

When you deploy your GiftBox before the end of January 2010, you automatically qualify as a GiftBox Early Adopter, which gives you the following additional benefits:

• Keep 10% more profit than other GiftBox hosters: As an early adopter, we’re offering you a 10% bonus on the profit share agreement.
• Link Exchange: As an early adopter, we provide you with the option of requesting us to link to your website from ours and optionally include your logo and/or banner. Such cross linking may drive some web traffic your way, as we work tirelessly to promote our services.
• Discount Coupons: To further reward early adopters, we’ll be sending you discount coupons. These coupons allow you to get discounts on your GiftBox transaction – you can share these coupons with some of your friends & website visitors to promote usage of your GiftBox! You will find your discount coupons once you login to your GiftBox control & customization page at http://www.beyonic.com

How do I get started?

Getting started is easy!

• Login to your Beyonic services account at http://www.beyonic.com using your google, yahoo, facebook, twitter or any supported accounts - you do not need to sign up/register!
• Access the GiftBox area of your control panel to customize your GiftBox
• Paste the javascript code in your website and you’re done!
• You can always log back into your account to futher customize your giftbox or track your earnings and request pay-outs.

How else can I get involved?

• You can tell other people about GiftBox by forwarding this email to them
• You can contribute to the improvement of GiftBox by posting feedback, ideas, bugs, feature additions in our feedback forums at http://beyonic.uservoice.com/
• If you’re on twitter, you can follow us on twitter for regular updates: Follow @beyonictech
• If you have a blog, forum or discussion group, after giving the GiftBox service a try, feel free to review the service – we welcome criticisms as much as mentions & praises! If you do review the service, please let us know!