WiPay Guyana is an online payment solution that brings credit card and cash acceptance to Small, Medium and Large Enterprises.
Consumers and businesses around the world are enjoying the convenience of e-Commerce. However many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Guyana, are lagging behind, operating primarily using hard cash and other paper-based services, limiting their ability to participate in the e-commerce revolution.
According to Hootsuite’s and You Are Social Jan 2018 Global report, Guyana’s Internet penetration is approaching 50% (+15% growth YOY) with mobile penetration at 79%, and mobile internet access 46%. With the Government’s increased focus on building a modern economy through digital payments, Guyana is accelerating its development of their ecosystem for economic growth through e-Commerce. Consequently with increasing levels of Internet access and usage, the demand for online purchasing is growing, causing more and more businesses to move away from the ‘brick and mortar’ type operations to ‘online’ stores in order to reach a wider market and reduce costs.
E-Commerce is revolutionizing the way companies are doing business globally. Consumers can now purchase almost anything online, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for the ultimate shopping experience.
Taking your business online in Guyana has been a difficult, technical and costly process. Additionally, due to credit card penetration being as low as 10% or less, the drive to go online in Guyana has been slow.
WiPay’s new online payment gateway offers a world class payment solution for Guyanese businesses who would like to sell their products and services online. The best part is getting started is FREE, quick, easy and secure!
WiPay’s payment gateway enables businesses to accept both credit card and NOW, ‘cash’ payments online.
Caribbean Airlines in partnership with WiPay are proud to announce a NEW way to pay for your Airline tickets in Guyana! “Imagine sitting in the comfort of your home in Hinterland, and you do not possess a credit card. Not a problem! Now you can purchase your Caribbean Airlines ticket over the phone with a WiPay Top Up Voucher at any time, day or night, without having to physically go into Caribbean Airline’s Office in Georgetown. This ladies and gentlemen is innovation in customer experience through technology, THIS IS FINANCIAL INCLUSION!” explained Mrs Sacha Thompson, COO of WiPay. WiPay is truly transforming the way you pay and get paid.
With WiPay, businesses can make and receive payments online by simply downloading the WiPay plugin for FREE and integrating it onto their website or Mobile App. Alternatively, businesses without websites can use WiPay’s ‘Send an Invoice’ feature to send an electronic invoice directly to a customer’s email, who then has the option to pay via credit card or with ‘cash’ from within the email’s window.
WiPay’s approach of allowing ‘cash’ payments online follows the already familiar mobile ‘Top Up’ culture that exists in the Caribbean. A customer can simply go to any authorized WiPay partner location (e.g. Bill Express), purchase a ‘WiPay Top Up’ for the required amount. The customer can then use the Top Up’s unique 12-digit code to make a ‘cash’ payment online to any business that uses WiPay’s payment gateway.
Caribbean Airlines is proud to be the first in the market to offer this new convenient service to its customers in Guyana as it continues to innovate in Customer Experience.
An Online Payment System that is secure
WiPay considers security to be of the utmost importance and critical to the ongoing operations of the business. The payment platform is built on distributed ledger technology, which ensures the highest levels of reliability, redundancy and data immutability.
WiPay uses state-of-the-art encryption to protect the integrity of customer data and payment details. WiPay does not store any credit card information but seamlessly redirects the cardholder from the merchant’s website to a separate and secure PCI DSS server where the customer enters their confidential, sensitive payment data.
About WiPay
Wipay is a next-generation provider of payment solutions, using innovative technology enabling the ‘banked”, ‘unbanked’ and ‘un-carded’ to partake in the online and e-commerce space.
WiPay is headquartered in Trinidad & Tobago with offices in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Guyana.
Website: www.wipaytoday.com