The Client

allpay.net is one of the UK’s fastest growing companies offering payment solutions to any industry requiring any kind of revenue collection. In 1996 the company had just  2 clients and 4 members of staff,  November 2006 sees allpay.net  employing well over 150 people and providing payment solutions for over 650 public and private sector organisations.

allpay.net was named in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 (September 2006).

The Need

allpay.net are continually looking to innovate within the payment solutions market. Mobile phones are recognised as one of the most ubiquitous devices available to the public. Allpay recognised this fact and identified an opportunity to develop a method by which their clients could request a payment by SMS.
allpay.net challenged QEB to make this concept a reality.

Solution

QEB identified a two way short code SMS service as the vehicle for this solution.

QEB developed TextPay.

This led to the development of real-time web service integration with an SMS Service Provider, and a payments engine to interpret messages and send responses.

Additionally, a website was developed in .net to enable clients to register for the service, called allpayments.text. This a registration site for paying bills by text message. This means that once registered, the bill payer can pay their bills anywhere and at any time with their mobile phone.

Key Features

• Research and selection of an SMS service provider
• Development of real-time web services to send and pickup sms messages
• Development of an SMS payment engine to make payments by credit card
• Development of a .net website for registration and interrogation of payments
• Operational and technical documentation

Benefits

• allpay.net again led the market in sms-based payment  solutions
• allpay.net are able to offer an additional leading edge service to clients
• Adoption of the service by many Local Councils and Housing Associations
• Gaining and Retaining Clients