Check out CashSender's new YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cashsender?feature=mhum#p/u
You'll find videos on CashSender basics, funding your account, our feedback system, online security, merchant tools, our new IPN, how to avoid pending payment fraud and credit card chargeback scams and a lot more.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby
http://www.CashSender.com
Friday, October 15, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
CashSender launches new IPN and Integration Center
We've just launched our new Integration and Developers Center:
https://www.cashsender.com/?cmd=developers
We now provide online sellers with a host of extensive tools to process low cost payments and save hundreds of dollars per year in fees.
Our new Developers Integration Center puts us on the same level as our competitor in that website owners in the US, Canada, and Europe can use and customize our payment system to meet user-specific online payment processing needs.
The Instant Payment Notification (IPN) allows for user-defined payment instructions to be sent from CashSender to users’ websites when online payments are processed. IPNs automatically update account balances as well as send emails and receipts.
CashSender’s Soapbox provides a live test environment for programmers to fully test their custom designed online payment applications.
For many online sellers, the recession has hit hard and everyone is looking to save money wherever possible. The ability to save just a few percent on a purchase is significant enough to win business over a competitor. That's where CashSender gives you the competitive advantage.
CashSender's innovative online payment system enables online shoppers to get 1-2% cashback with every online payment, while at the same time offering online venders the lowest payment processing fees in the industry. A win-win for everyone!
We hope you will use our new IPN to facilitate payments on your website.
Sincerely,
Henry Tenby
http://www.CashSender.com
https://www.cashsender.com/?cmd=developers
We now provide online sellers with a host of extensive tools to process low cost payments and save hundreds of dollars per year in fees.
Our new Developers Integration Center puts us on the same level as our competitor in that website owners in the US, Canada, and Europe can use and customize our payment system to meet user-specific online payment processing needs.
The Instant Payment Notification (IPN) allows for user-defined payment instructions to be sent from CashSender to users’ websites when online payments are processed. IPNs automatically update account balances as well as send emails and receipts.
CashSender’s Soapbox provides a live test environment for programmers to fully test their custom designed online payment applications.
For many online sellers, the recession has hit hard and everyone is looking to save money wherever possible. The ability to save just a few percent on a purchase is significant enough to win business over a competitor. That's where CashSender gives you the competitive advantage.
CashSender's innovative online payment system enables online shoppers to get 1-2% cashback with every online payment, while at the same time offering online venders the lowest payment processing fees in the industry. A win-win for everyone!
We hope you will use our new IPN to facilitate payments on your website.
Sincerely,
Henry Tenby
http://www.CashSender.com
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Highest household debt since 1929
It was interesting to read the "The Morning After" article in the June 26, 2010, issue of the Economist, which talked about the recent bloating of personal debt levels.
According to the article, household debt approached 100% of GDP in 2007, a level only seen once before, back in 1929 during the onset of the Great Depression.
The article explains that America is not alone in embarking on this debt spree as Britain household debt rose from 105% of disposable income in 2000, to a whopping 160% in 2008.
And in Spain the ration rose from 69% to 130% over the same period.
You might be asking "what does this have to do with making online payments and the online payments industry?"
Over the past decade consumers have become tapped out on credit spending. In plain English it means people (in the US, UK and in many European countries) have spent far too much on their credit cards. They spent more than they could afford to and the hen has now come home to roost.
Many online payment services provide the convenience of using a credit card to facilitate online purchases.
On the surface, this seems like a convenience. But this convenience does come with a dark, underlying cost that many people might have overlooked.
The ability to pay with credit card results in impluse purchases behavior, and the ability to pay with credit card online (or offline) results in over spending, which in turn results in some people getting deeper and deeper in debt.
With CashSender, all payments are made with funds from your bank account. CashSender does not facilitate credit card payments for another good reason: The costs of credit related fraud and chargebacks would have to be passed on to website users by way of higher fees.
Our mantra is to offer the lowest fees possible, and if we were allowing credit card payments, we simply couldn't offer the rock bottom fees for which we are known.
A major shift is underway with consumers looking to save and economize as much as possible. The ability to make each dollar stretch a bit further is become a key factor when consumers compare goods and services.
At CashSender, we reaching to help online payers meet this objective in providing the lowest fees possible. And the removal of credit cards from our business model is one of the main driving forces that helps us help you.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby, founder
www.CashSender.com
According to the article, household debt approached 100% of GDP in 2007, a level only seen once before, back in 1929 during the onset of the Great Depression.
The article explains that America is not alone in embarking on this debt spree as Britain household debt rose from 105% of disposable income in 2000, to a whopping 160% in 2008.
And in Spain the ration rose from 69% to 130% over the same period.
You might be asking "what does this have to do with making online payments and the online payments industry?"
Over the past decade consumers have become tapped out on credit spending. In plain English it means people (in the US, UK and in many European countries) have spent far too much on their credit cards. They spent more than they could afford to and the hen has now come home to roost.
Many online payment services provide the convenience of using a credit card to facilitate online purchases.
On the surface, this seems like a convenience. But this convenience does come with a dark, underlying cost that many people might have overlooked.
The ability to pay with credit card results in impluse purchases behavior, and the ability to pay with credit card online (or offline) results in over spending, which in turn results in some people getting deeper and deeper in debt.
With CashSender, all payments are made with funds from your bank account. CashSender does not facilitate credit card payments for another good reason: The costs of credit related fraud and chargebacks would have to be passed on to website users by way of higher fees.
Our mantra is to offer the lowest fees possible, and if we were allowing credit card payments, we simply couldn't offer the rock bottom fees for which we are known.
A major shift is underway with consumers looking to save and economize as much as possible. The ability to make each dollar stretch a bit further is become a key factor when consumers compare goods and services.
At CashSender, we reaching to help online payers meet this objective in providing the lowest fees possible. And the removal of credit cards from our business model is one of the main driving forces that helps us help you.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby, founder
www.CashSender.com
Friday, July 2, 2010
To Pin Or Not To Pin - That is The Online Security Banking Question
You might have noticed that logging in to your CashSender account is a bit more complicated than logging into a PayPal account.
The reason for the extra hurdles is that we’re more protective of your online security than our competitors, and our account security protocols closely resemble those used by most reputable major banks.
Other online payment services (including PayPal) don’t provide your account with security it well deserves. I shall explain.
First of all, you might have noticed that you don’t login to your CashSender account with your email address. Instead, we require all site members to select a unique and confidential user name, and the login process requires your unique user name along with your password.
Your unique CashSender user name is only known by you. None of your friends or customers know your user name, so it is extremely unlikely that your user name could be compromised and brute force tested by cyber criminals.
If you think about it, sites that require login with an email address are guilty of account security violation number one in the first degree. Why? Because everyone you do business with and communicate with online knows your email address. And email addresses are compromised every time someone’s pc gets hacked.
Once a cyber criminal has an email address, he can use brute force software along with your email address to try and muscle his way into your PayPal account, or any other online account that uses your email address for login.
A cyber criminal is already half way in to your online accounts once he has your email address. That's if you use online banking and payment services that use email addresses for login.
For this very reason, most major banks do not use email addresses as part of the account login process. Instead, banks require you to select your unique user name, which will be used along with your password to access your online bank account.
It makes perfect sense. If a cyber criminal doesn’t know your user name, he can’t get past first base in trying to brute force crack your password and access your account.
Most major banks also add a third level of online account security in the form of 4-digit pin number, which is required in addition to user name and password in order for customers to access a bank account online.
This extra level of security makes it all the more difficult for cyber criminals, who will devote their nefarious efforts on other less secure websites.
We at CashSender employ pin number use during account login, as well as to make account changes and move funds. You might think it over-kill, but we want to do all we can to best protect your account from un-authorized use.
We even take the pin feature one extra step. When entering your pin on the CashSender website you might have noticed that a javascript keypad opens on screen. Using your pointer, you select the four numbers of your pin on the javascript key pad (instead of entering numbers using your keyboard).
This technology is employed to prevent cyber criminals from leaching your pin number if they’ve installed a keystroke logger on your infected pc. Which happens all the time.
These extra hurdles may take a few extra seconds when you want to login to your CashSender account or make account changes and send funds, but just remember cyber criminals don’t like all this extra stuff either.
So they’re going to spend their time on less secure websites, where lax online security protocols make their life a lot easier.
Banks knows this. And we at CashSender know this too.
If online security is very important to you, specially as it pertains to your online banking and online payment services, then you might want to only use banks and online payment services that adhere to these security protocols.
I hope you will allow CashSender to be of service.
Henry Tenby
CashSender.com
The reason for the extra hurdles is that we’re more protective of your online security than our competitors, and our account security protocols closely resemble those used by most reputable major banks.
Other online payment services (including PayPal) don’t provide your account with security it well deserves. I shall explain.
First of all, you might have noticed that you don’t login to your CashSender account with your email address. Instead, we require all site members to select a unique and confidential user name, and the login process requires your unique user name along with your password.
Your unique CashSender user name is only known by you. None of your friends or customers know your user name, so it is extremely unlikely that your user name could be compromised and brute force tested by cyber criminals.
If you think about it, sites that require login with an email address are guilty of account security violation number one in the first degree. Why? Because everyone you do business with and communicate with online knows your email address. And email addresses are compromised every time someone’s pc gets hacked.
Once a cyber criminal has an email address, he can use brute force software along with your email address to try and muscle his way into your PayPal account, or any other online account that uses your email address for login.
A cyber criminal is already half way in to your online accounts once he has your email address. That's if you use online banking and payment services that use email addresses for login.
For this very reason, most major banks do not use email addresses as part of the account login process. Instead, banks require you to select your unique user name, which will be used along with your password to access your online bank account.
It makes perfect sense. If a cyber criminal doesn’t know your user name, he can’t get past first base in trying to brute force crack your password and access your account.
Most major banks also add a third level of online account security in the form of 4-digit pin number, which is required in addition to user name and password in order for customers to access a bank account online.
This extra level of security makes it all the more difficult for cyber criminals, who will devote their nefarious efforts on other less secure websites.
We at CashSender employ pin number use during account login, as well as to make account changes and move funds. You might think it over-kill, but we want to do all we can to best protect your account from un-authorized use.
We even take the pin feature one extra step. When entering your pin on the CashSender website you might have noticed that a javascript keypad opens on screen. Using your pointer, you select the four numbers of your pin on the javascript key pad (instead of entering numbers using your keyboard).
This technology is employed to prevent cyber criminals from leaching your pin number if they’ve installed a keystroke logger on your infected pc. Which happens all the time.
These extra hurdles may take a few extra seconds when you want to login to your CashSender account or make account changes and send funds, but just remember cyber criminals don’t like all this extra stuff either.
So they’re going to spend their time on less secure websites, where lax online security protocols make their life a lot easier.
Banks knows this. And we at CashSender know this too.
If online security is very important to you, specially as it pertains to your online banking and online payment services, then you might want to only use banks and online payment services that adhere to these security protocols.
I hope you will allow CashSender to be of service.
Henry Tenby
CashSender.com
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Payment feedback system ... a great feature for sending or receiving money online
When using an online payment system to accept or send an online payment, we thought it would be a good idea to be able to leave positive, neutral or negative feedback on the payment transaction, along with comments on the transaction.
So we decided to built this utility right into the CashSender website.
Therefore, the CashSender system allows both sides of a payment transaction to leave the other party feedback on their respective payment transactions.
These feedbacks become a visible part of CashSender members' profile, and we believe this adds an extra level of security that many other online payment websites have not adequately addressed.
When you enter an email address of someone you want to send a payment to using CashSender, our system will present their full feedback profile to you on the payment preview page. Beside the payment receiver's name you'll see a number in brackets like this ..
John Smith (122)
If you click the 122 a page will open showing the full details of John Smith's feedback report. By viewing the feeback report it will give you confidence in knowing that John Smith is a reputable seller and it is safe to continue in sending your payment.
Online security is not a matter that we take lightly at CashSender. And we believe our robust payment feedback system gives you the extra security you might like to have in conducting your online transaction.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby
www.CashSender.com
So we decided to built this utility right into the CashSender website.
Therefore, the CashSender system allows both sides of a payment transaction to leave the other party feedback on their respective payment transactions.
These feedbacks become a visible part of CashSender members' profile, and we believe this adds an extra level of security that many other online payment websites have not adequately addressed.
When you enter an email address of someone you want to send a payment to using CashSender, our system will present their full feedback profile to you on the payment preview page. Beside the payment receiver's name you'll see a number in brackets like this ..
John Smith (122)
If you click the 122 a page will open showing the full details of John Smith's feedback report. By viewing the feeback report it will give you confidence in knowing that John Smith is a reputable seller and it is safe to continue in sending your payment.
Online security is not a matter that we take lightly at CashSender. And we believe our robust payment feedback system gives you the extra security you might like to have in conducting your online transaction.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby
www.CashSender.com
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
How to search blogger blogs for people with similar interests to follow their posts and share links etc
I must have spent at least ten hours searching for a method to search blogger.com blogs to find other bloggers with common interest to my interest in helping people save money.
The problem is the blogger does not provide any means to allow people to search their system for other blogs, except the extremely limited next blog link in the tool bar.
I searched google and yahoo high and low looking for a method, and it was by random chance that I found a solution.
Someone post the html source code for the following blogger search utility on their website .. and here it is:
Give it a try and you'll see it actually works!
I am hoping that I connect with other bloggers who want to help people with money saving ideas, as I'd like to share the http://www.cashsender.com/ website with them, as it is the only online payment website that offers money back with every payment sent.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby,
http://www.cashsender.com/
The problem is the blogger does not provide any means to allow people to search their system for other blogs, except the extremely limited next blog link in the tool bar.
I searched google and yahoo high and low looking for a method, and it was by random chance that I found a solution.
Someone post the html source code for the following blogger search utility on their website .. and here it is:
Give it a try and you'll see it actually works!
I am hoping that I connect with other bloggers who want to help people with money saving ideas, as I'd like to share the http://www.cashsender.com/ website with them, as it is the only online payment website that offers money back with every payment sent.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby,
http://www.cashsender.com/
Friday, June 18, 2010
It's official: US residents can now fund their CashSender accounts direct from their bank accounts
It did take us quite some time to set up, but it is now official.
CashSender members resident in the United States can now electronically fund their CashSender accounts direct from their US bank accounts.
All you have to do is add your bank account details to your CashSender account, and we'll send a small micro payment to your bank account.
Just view your bank statement to find out the exact amount we sent you, and then confirm the amount within your CashSender account. And presto, you'll have successfully linked your bank account to your CashSender account.
That means you upload funds direct from your bank account to your CashSender account, as well as withdraw your funds from your CashSender account back to your bank account, all electronically.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby
www.CashSender.com
CashSender members resident in the United States can now electronically fund their CashSender accounts direct from their US bank accounts.
All you have to do is add your bank account details to your CashSender account, and we'll send a small micro payment to your bank account.
Just view your bank statement to find out the exact amount we sent you, and then confirm the amount within your CashSender account. And presto, you'll have successfully linked your bank account to your CashSender account.
That means you upload funds direct from your bank account to your CashSender account, as well as withdraw your funds from your CashSender account back to your bank account, all electronically.
Cheers,
Henry Tenby
www.CashSender.com
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