Text to pay

Sam Xia
2 min readJul 22, 2020

Texting is the preferred channel for today’s communication. For a business owner, when it’s time for your customers to pay you, we make it easy to use texting as well.

It’s easy: all you do is send a text. Your customer clicks a link and enters the credit card number. You get paid instantly.

Research shows that SMS open rates are as high as 98%, comparing that to just 20% of all emails. Additionally, it typically takes 90 seconds for someone to respond to a text and 90 minutes to respond to an email.

As customers are quick to respond with texting, they will be quick to pay you as well.

WikiPro’s Text to pay module solves a few problems:

  1. It’s easier for customers to pay.
  2. The payment typically is done in minutes rather than hours or days or weeks.
  3. Easy set up. Almost everyone knows how to use a computer. Just click a few buttons and enter business information, and you’re done.
  4. The payment management modules allow business owner to manage all payments, including cancel payment, refund payment, view pay details, send reminder, invoice etc.

Our payment is powered by Stripe. Stripe is one of the world’s most trusted payment processors, handling billions of dollars every year for forward-thinking businesses around the world. Your bank information or customers credit card information is not stored in our server. Stripe handles the PCI compliance.

We accept all major credit cards including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

WikiPay is handy for business owners. Here is a typical case for a business owner to use WikiPro:

Let’s say you are a plumber and work on a landlord’s property. The landlord is not at the property. First, you can use the WikiPro to send pictures to the landlord and get a quote. Second, the landlord views the pictures and approves of the quote. Third, you are done with the job and you can request a payment link. Then the landlord clicks on the payment link to pay you instantly. Lastly, when you are paid and sure you get a happy customer, you can request a review to the landlord, the landlord can write a 5 star review for you at Google or Facebook in 30 seconds.

Give it a try. Sign up for a free two weeks trial, no credit card required.

Originally published at https://www.wikipro.us on July 22, 2020.

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Sam Xia

CTO of WikiPro, All-in-one Business to Customer Communication Platform. https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiongwu/