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Anyone Know a Good SMS Payment Gateway?
1 points by humblest_ever 5542 days ago
The ideal process is the user would put his phone number into the web app, he would receive a text message, "text back <some PIN> to pay $X," and then payment would send a message to the web app server, maybe GETing something like Y.com/payment?from=5555555&secret_key=ZZZZZZZ

I'd like to get recommendations on who to use, and it's be great to know if anyone has used SMS payments in their own projects, and how it worked out.

3 comments

Sounds a lot like what Venmo is doing (https://venmo.com/). I don't think they have an API yet.
Send an email to api@venmo.com if you would like to play with our beta API.
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