[kictanet] Fwd: MPESA NFC and Ecommerce Payment Automation

[Dorcas Muthoni]

My understanding is that Safaricom is creating efficiency in the customer
journey by limiting data entry to only the PIN when making payments to
merchants.

I think it is smart!

On May 11, 2017 12:24 PM, "Erick Mwangi via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
> Morning Listers,
>
> This is a Cool feature for Mpesa. Personally I don`t hold much faith in
> it, since secure elements for NFC are expensive, but I guess we`ll have to
> see if they manage to make profit on this and what the uptake is.
>
> Through an in-house Start-up, we once had implemented an NFC payment
> solution with Vodafone a few years ago at our work canteen, it was mainly
> used for employees to pay for food and beverages in the in-house facilities
> and on the vending machines. No tags involved – we virtualised a secure
> element on the NFC enabled SIM card ;)
> However, after analysis we concluded that the model had no commercial
> future, only for show.
>
> But I stand to be corrected - Certainly interesting times..
>
> E Njoroge Mwangi
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> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Timothy- Coach- Oriedo via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Hi Listers,
>>
>> The long awaited NFC automation for MPESA is finally out.
>>
>> For all CIOs, developers, digital marketers looking at embedding the
>> solution on their existing infrastructure to provide a seamless payment
>> experience please check our website www.briskpesa.com and give me a call
>> on 0722 816171.
>>
>> See attached inforgraph and video link below.
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Timothy Oriedo <timothy.oriedo at briskpesa.com>
>> Date: Wed, May 10, 2017 at 7:50 PM
>> Subject: MPESA NFC and Ecommerce Payment Automation
>> To: timoriedo <timoriedo at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3
>> A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSafaricomLtd%2Fvideos%2F1015865424
>> 3750084%2F&show_text=0&width=560" width="560" height="315"
>> style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
>> allowTransparency="true" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>
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