Self-Review EOW 1

Ladies & Gentlemen, We Have a Website

For the dozens of loyal readers of this website, I apologize for the lack of communication this week. http://www.mpayy.com and http://mobile.mpayy.com are now live.

The final week saw some interesting road bumps. If you look at the website of the new payments standard, you'll see the Verisign SSL certificates. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, Verisign does its due diligence to validate that the websites that bear its emblem are serious companies.

The domain registry we used created a separate account with a company that holds our information private, preventing the SSL verification team at Verisign from seeing who we were. Since Mpayy was originally Magellan Payments, a company created to hold the Intellectual Property that underlies our patent pending payments system, the privacy account was linked to an email at Magellan Payments.

The fix took a few hours, but is now resolved, and the details of our registration can be seen here.

Mobile Merriment

Mpayy, Inc. launched with a full suite of payment capabilities. Mpayy now enables its Personal Account members to send money to anyone for free through Mpayy.com, mobile.Mpayy.com, as well as the many internet retailers we are in the process of signing up. Soon, we will enable a secure online widget syndicated across the many sites that can be personalized as discussed here.

Mpayy's mobile site is very slick, and initial reports from mobile website authority Ready.mobi point to not a bad first attempt. However, there is still a great deal of work to do.




Mpayy's fantastic development team at US Bank is working to release within the next few days a fix for some redirecting issues we're having. Even with a thin-client solution in which users do not have to download anything to their phones and with a solution that does not require coordination with the wireless service providers, one still has to work to test on every phone out there on the market. Beyond this short-term fix, Mpayy is committed, and well on its way, to migrating more functionality from the website to the mobile site, and continue to improve the user experience of each.

Charitable Commerce

Mpayy also continues to seek charities, non-profit organizations, and political campaigns for whom we will process donations with no cost. Mpayy's secure, commercial grade payment processing system is the perfect solution for such organizations who place a premium on security. Further, we will provide contributors with a detailed receipt that would be usable for tax receipts and personal records.

Making the Grade

Placing a premium on quality, Mpayy did add a few days to its launch
date to test its Disaster Recovery, and make adjustments to our platform
to extend the full set of functionality and security to some late model
cell phones that are still out in circulation. We expect to cover 99% of
the devices on this launch. The site is up with modest issues. All features are fully functional and secure. There are a number of small items we're dealing with in addition to our on-going efforts to ensure that Mpayy's mobile site experience is smooth on all phones on the market as well as to get our widget out the door.

All in all, we give ourselves a B-, but look forward to continual improvement.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at tjohnson@mpayy.com.