Immediate action required for any Zaypay customer intending to operate services in the United Kingdom

As you may know, the regulator for premium-rate services in the UK, PhonepayPlus (“PPP”), has recently published its 12th Code of Practice, which has been approved by Ofcom, together with 22 pieces of guidance on the new Code, all of which will come into force on 1 September 2011. As a result of these changes, we can only permit customers to process payments in the UK if they have registered with PPP and confirmed their registration to us as set out below.

The focus of the new Code is on the outcomes that consumers should expect when purchasing a premium-rate service (PRS). Most importantly for PRS providers at all levels of the value-chain, there are new requirements to register with PhonepayPlus and to carry out due diligence on providers with whom they contract, and, in relation to services or contracts starting on or before 1 September 2011.

Key changes include:

A. Before providing any PRS, all Network Operators, Level 1 and Level 2 providers must register with PhonepayPlus unless they provide exempt services (section 3.4.1).

B. Contracts must require the parties to comply with the Code and any directions made by PhonepayPlus, and allow for PhonepayPlus to directly enforce the terms of the contract pursuant to section 1 of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (section 3.3.3).

In order to adhere to the Code and allow us to continue providing PRS services, we require the relevant persons in your organization to complete the following actions before the 31st August 2011:

- Register with Phonepay Plus: http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/Registration/Register.aspx
- Review the new Code and Guidance to ensure services meet any new requirements: http://code.phonepayplus.org.uk/
- Log in on the http://www.zaypay.com/ website, navigate to the ‘Account’ tab and enter your PPP code. Make sure that the name you have filled in as your ‘Company’ name matches your PPP registration.

If you need help with any of the above please contact Zaypay support (support@zaypay.com).

Maurice Nonnekes on behalf of Zaypay International

Today we launched an additional 10 price points for Poland enabling us to provide 11 different price points on SMS and variable price points on premium phone. Price points range from 1 to 25 PLN.

Our Payalogues (our copy-paste hosted payment screens) use a lightbox to overlay it over the page it’s called from. Some people had some problems with it when using it from an iframe or using it on Javascript-heavy pages.

Now it’s possible to switch the lightbox off. You’ll need to update your integration for it (old integrations will still work). From that moment you can just turn on and off the lightbox-feature without changing your integration.

In our ongoing effort to improve our product we offer two new features for everyone to use.

First: blacklisting / unblacklisting that allows you to block future payments for a certain customers phone number. Select this from the Transactions view for a certain payment.

Second: you can use the existing search-feature to search for payments by your custom variables. Two feature we hope will make your life easier while using Zaypay.

Something nice for all you stats lovers out there! You’ll find a new feature in your statistics section: conversion statistics. This allows you to look at the percentage of the number of payments created versus the numer that actually go paid. Just like the regular stats you can look at it per price setting, per country and you’ll always see it split by payment method.

We are proud to announce we launched SMS payments in Indonesia.

Please note that as of today the payouts for Germany have improved on Phone Payments €3.00 per minute (fixed line) and €2.75 (mobile phone). As usual, there is nothing you have to do to get these improved rates.

In our efforts to hook up as many countries as we can, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve just added Hong Kong and Taiwan as countries of choice! For Hong Kong, we offer the tariffs HK$ 10/15/30 and for Taiwan we offer NT$ 10/20/30/40/50/90.

Due to popular request, we’ve just added Mexico SMS as a supported country with 3 tariffs, namely 15 MXN, 30 MXN and 50 MXN.

After a long hiatus, SMS in Israel is back with better payouts than before! We currently offer the tariffs of 5 ₪, 7 ₪, 10 ₪, 15 ₪ and 20 ₪. Stay tuned as a couple of new countries will be announced in the upcoming days!

Due to problems on our shortcode in the USA, it is currently not possible to offer and charge any payments there. We hope to have our tariffs back up soon, but as of this moment it’s unclear when that will be. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Our very kind customers have contributed Payalogue/API translations for the Czech and Polish languages. The translations are automatically available for all existing integrations and Payalogues.

Thanks guys!