Telephone billing as an online payment system
Howard Lake | 9 October 2000 | News
Adding online purchases to your ISP bill is a compelling alternative to online credit card payments.
UK Fundraising has already highlighted the possibilities of Web or ISP billing as a method of handling online payments or donations, particularly for low value sums. Such payments are simply added to your monthly or quarterly bill from your Internet Service Provider.
The system has many strengths. When buying you don’t have to submit credit card details, you just have to identify yourself. Shopping and donating become truly one-click affairs.
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eCharge is one company offering to enable such e-commerce with its product eCharge Phone. Jason Bray, European director of business development, told Internet World magazine this month: “there is absolute security. To make a fraudulent purchase, someone would have to break into your house and dial up from your computer on your phone line.” He added that the system works because it simply piggy-backs on ‘phone companies’ experience of billing in small amounts and their huge billing infrastructure.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.