| Webbilling Press Releases |
13:10 - 2009-Jan-5
Webbilling.com Attends the Hamburg Casual Connect EventWebbilling.com B.V. will be present at the prestigious Hamburg Casual Connect trade show, aimed at casual gaming companiesWebbilling.com B.V. will be present at the prestigious Hamburg Casual Connect trade show, aimed at casual gaming companies. This event will take place in the northern city of Hamburg, Germany, February 10th, 11th and 12th. Webbilling will be introducing their online payment services and solutions and showing the dozens of online gaming companies in attendance how to increase their European traffic revenue. Michael Reul, Senior Partner of Webbilling (www.Webbilling.com) , believes Hamburg Casual Connect to be "...an excellent window to show the gaming community our Online Payment Services for Europe and how they can benefit hugely from our platform. The most important companies for casual games will be attending the event and Webbilling will show them the way to maximize their profits from their European customers. We can guarantee up to three times more revenue and profit!" "Webbilling’s Direct Debit", he continued, "is a great solution for Internet companies operating in the Euopean marketplace, especially Browser-based Games as well as Online Casual Games companies. With more than ten years experience dealing with Direct Debit transactions, we are certain we can help you monetize this market with less than 75% credit card penetration." Any Website with traffic from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom that does not offer Direct Debit is potentially losing up to 75% of possible revenue, as less than 25% of Europeans own a credit card - but everybody has a bank account. Webbilling can definitely help you convert these sales already in your existing traffic. With proven and effective anti-fraud measures in place, Webbilling can reduce your risks to a minimum and at the same time increase your revenues from the lucrative European online market. Advanced Direct Pay is yet another excellent online payment method provided by Webbilling.com. With Webbilling.com Advanced Direct Pay, you can cover 43 European Countries, and Michael Reul explained, "With our system the user can purchase by making a bank transfer to a bank account in the country where he/she resides, eliminating hesitance and the expense of cross border bank transfers, and this will definitely increase your revenue." Hamburg Casual Connect will be a great event, and Webbilling is proud to attend and have the opportunity to share online payment services expertise with the gaming community. To request a meeting or more information, please contact europe@webbilling.com or drop by Table 22, in the Foyer A-C from the CCH - Congress Center Hamburg. For more information please visit: www.webbilling.com 16:38 - 2008-Oct-10
MPA3 Adds Webbilling EU Direct Debit to CascadeLOS ANGELES — Mansion Productions, makers of the XBIZ Award-winning MPA3 affiliate statistics software, has announced the addition of Webbilling.com's EU Direct Debit processing solution to its billing cascade; providing an additional preferred billing mechanism for major EU markets."As the online affiliate marketing industry continues to grow and expand, our software is designed to adapt to a wide variety of business models and webmaster needs," Oystein Wright, CEO of Mansion Productions, said. "Webbilling.com gives all site owners another way to process EU joins, helping to ensure that no potential user leaves without seeing his preferred join method. Webbilling.com offers real direct debit solutions for Spain, U.K., Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, which really adds to their ability to increase EU revenue volumes where credit cards are not so common." According to the company, Webbilling.com has the experience to maximize revenues, and the expertise to guide clients in realizing the best EU conversion rates possible; offering a negative database developed over ten years, superior fraud detection and established collection services for any chargebacks, among its services. Webbilling.com's European Direct Debit option can be added to any existing billing cascade without cannibalizing credit card revenue. The company will assist its client-merchants, providing in-depth knowledge of the European market; proven technology; powerful time-tested relationships; client focused expertise; and personal service. "The addition of Webbilling direct debit is among the many innovative ways that MPA3 affiliate software contributes to the enhancement of affiliate program management for the benefit of owners, affiliates and the end line consumer experience as well," a company spokesperson stated. Details on the MPA3 / Webbilling.com integration and how expanding your join options can help take advantage of the strong Euro and British Pound, can be found at www.mpa3.com. 12:29 - 2008-Jul-4
Tiger Version from Webbilling.comCashing in on EU BillingIn response to online industry feedback decrying long billing solution implementation times for other solutions and programming department backlogs, EU direct debit solution provider Webbilling.com has even further refined and simplified the implementation process for merchant/clients choosing to host their own join page. Webbilling.com is one of just a few platforms allowing merchant/clients to use the Webbilling join page or host their own EU direct debit join page, and one of a very few that allow one to place ones own content on the join page, whichever option chosen. The newly launched Tiger API provides for easier, more efficient implementation and speedier processing times. The Euro is predicted to remain at a +40% premium to the dollar for the next two years. Webbilling.com, has a customized platform for real EU direct debit in continuous operation with a 10+ year negative database available for Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Austria and the United Kingdom. This is real pull direct debit, and Webbilling.com also provides the many advantages you associate with credit card billing, including instant access, recurring, free/multiple free trials, cross sales, up sells, pay-per-anything, pin call security, plus the optional Secure Pin mainly for high cost content cam sites and hard goods sales - billing in Euros and British Pounds – and a comprehensive collections department designed to minimize and recover chargebacks. How will you spend all your 2008 EU revenue? 10:11 - 2008-Jun-4
Do You Really Bill the UK?www.webbilling.com has announced commencement of real direct debit billing for the UK for their client merchants.For over ten years Webbilling.com has focused on the use of direct debit for the conversion of European traffic with the same immediacy, ease, and with the same marketing tools enjoyed with credit card billing. Senior Partner Michael Reul assures all that this is just one more opportunity in the continuing Webbilling mission to provide debit focused products to sponsors at reasonable rates, with all the capability for maximizing EU revenue, including immediate access, recurring billing, free and multiple free trials, cross sales, upsells, escalating security levels, pay-per-anything packages, and encrypted one-click joins for additional marketing – along with targeted translations and conversion strategy coaching. He added, “Remember that the UK includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands so the potential is great and there is more on the way. It's amazing how many e-commerce site owners we speak with tell us they think they already offer direct debit to their potential customers. All I can suggest is that you go to your 'alternative' join pages and check for yourself.” Global Operations Director, Ines Petersen stated, “Almost as accepted in the UK as on the continent, fully 73% of UK adults are positively disposed to using the direct debit payment method online. From my perspective being European; we provide a proven platform for the primary preferred billing method for our top markets. It’s all about perspective. Keep all your present billing solutions in place; just optimize Webbilling to maximize your EU revenue. This is found money – you are already doing all the work to get these users to your sites.” Add the United Kingdom to your potential membership roster and bill the German, Austrian, Dutch and Spanish markets where credit cards are also the alternative billing method. And…what about your rates? Please contact us for an appointment so we can show you exactly how you can leverage current economic conditions for your specific programs. 12:31 - 2008-May-14
Webbilling Enhances Admin StatsEuropean direct debit leader Webbilling.com has raised the bar on admin stats presentation. In anticipation of new products coming online, and feedback from merchants dissatisfied with stats reporting from their current providers, Webbilling has added numerous features to present user statistics for their client merchants.Improvements include full color charts and graphs, breakdowns for each country and billing method utilized, all with an unparalleded transparency to provide the ultimate control for client merchants. “It’s your traffic, they are your users. We don’t just provide you with a platform, we work with you to maximize your revenue across the board,” stated senior partner Michael Reul. “If, for instance, your billing provider is not breaking down your German sales for you, how can you know to enhance your geo-targeting or tweak your join page with special text and custom graphics?” If your EU revenue streams are not broken out for you in your stats admin and your revenue reporting, how can you identify an underperforming market or expand a strategy that is super-performing?” Operations director Ines Petersen reinforced the point, adding, “Breakdowns allow you to perform country-specific sales analysis and marketing, tweak pricing, join pages and geo-routing. Each country is unique and so may be your promotions and focus for each.” Does your EU billing provider take your traffic and send you a combined check? You’ve gotten where you are by making some fine decisions, maybe you should manage your international traffic the same way you’ve managed your North American traffic… Webbilling.com converts your EU users in the UK, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Spain with the primary preferred join method for each, and if we don’t fulfill the join we return the user precisely to where you designate – no dead ends. Who other than Webbilling.com can provide you real pull Direct Debit billing with instant access, free/multiple free trials, cross sales, upsells, pay-per-anything and one-click encrypted joins for following transactions, package purchases and cancellation marketing? We also provide the push ‘direct pay’ method for those countries still requiring a physical signature, but that is not the same as our direct debit in our five primary markets. A simple straightforward contract and inclusion in NATS and MPA3 make us an easy implementation. Europeans billing Europe… Request more information on our unique solutions for billing Europe and our advanced admin stats reporting – Where Are You Billing Today? 12:26 - 2008-Apr-19
Ten Years for Webbilling.comWebBilling.com, global leader in provision of real European Direct Debit solutions celebrates ten years of continuous service to the online commerce community.Over the past ten years Webbilling.com has focused on the use of direct debit for the conversion of European traffic, and not just converting it but converting it specifically for the adult industry with the same immediacy, ease, and with the same marketing tools you enjoy with credit card conversion in North America. Webbilling.com specializes in providing features not generally associated with available ‘direct debit’ solutions, including capability for immediate access, recurring billing, trials, crosssales, upsells, escalating security levels, pay-per-view, pay-per-download, pay-per-package, one-time and hard goods sales, one-click sales, and the fact that you can retain member data for additional marketing purposes – We believe it’s your customer; it’s your data. Host the join page, or be processing in two days with the Webbilling.com join page – either option includes all the same advantages. Keep all your present billing solutions. This is found money – you are already doing all the work to get these surfers to your sites – the Webbilling.com direct debit solution will allow you to convert them, as well as attracting more EU affiliates because of higher conversions. Webbilling.com senior partner Michael Reul commented, “Offering this proven direct debit solution to the global market represents the culmination of over ten years of research, experience and performance. Don’t be fooled by companies claiming to provide direct debit services – the Webbilling.com billing solution is the real thing. Complete your due diligence; go to your own join pages as an EU customer and know what options you are really offering your potential customer.” 11:10 - 2008-Mar-20
Choosing a European Direct-Debit SolutionIf you are considering providing easy access for the millions of potential European users who will not or cannot use their credit cards online, read on.Global economic conditions have all companies tied to the USDollar seeking to begin or improve their Euro and Pound revenue streams in markets with only 25 percent credit-card penetration by many estimates. A much higher percentage of Europeans possess bank accounts and use them to pay the majority of their bills. An option is to optimize the direct debit payment process for e-commerce sites to generate the most revenue possible on a global basis to continue growth. “The process of withdrawing funds directly from a user’s bank account without any type of card or other vehicle based on an online purchase is the most popular and widely accepted payment method in Europe,” states Michael Reul, co-founder of Webbilling.com B.V. “Because most of Europe now completes transactions virtually without paper, Europeans are used to this type of billing, and people keep their bank accounts practically their whole lives. In spite of recent incursions in credit card proliferation, the advantages of real direct debit billing over credit card billing for the EU just keep mounting.” Some companies offer ‘direct pay’ in many different countries, but this is a far more laborious method for surfers where the potential user is required to physically wire money from their bank account to the merchant and should not be a primary offering unless direct debit is not possible, and where countries still require a physical signature. Essentially, they must go to their bank online or in person, initiate and send a wire, and then wait in some cases several days before the wire is received and access to the online site is granted or the order is fulfilled. More importantly, there is not automatic recurring billing with this option, so the user must go through the same process every time they want to initiate a transaction - if they choose to renew their membership – and the idea of a spontaneous purchase along with instant access is minimized in these cases. The Cultural Divide When it comes to personal financial management and payment methods in everyday life there is a different culture in Europe. Whether it is better or worse is a great debate, but it is different. And if you plan to generate revenue in Europe you must understand the European culture. Everyone pays with cash (in stores) or with their bank accounts. Utility companies withdraw payments directly from savings accounts, as do landlords and any other authorized entity. Online e-commerce enterprises can also have the ability to withdraw payments directly from users’ savings accounts. Again, no types of cards or other vehicles are required, just deduct right from the same bank accounts where your customers’/subscribers’ employers also directly deposit their salaries! Webbilling.com reports another positive note - the retention of European direct-debit users is much higher than that of the continent’s credit-card users. When you are considering EU processing of any kind, complete some due diligence. How long has the processor been operating in Europe? How well maintained and broad-based are their banking/financial relationships? Do they attempt to understand your specific needs? Check out their join pages as if you were a surfer from each country in which they provide services. What happens to your user after he clicks to their join page? What if there is a geo-targeting error; can the user correct their country and change language on the join page? For instance, what if the user is a German traveling in the USA? Can you set the prices for your EU joins independently of your other products, or do you have to use direct conversion? Can you customize the join page with your own translated text and proprietary custom graphics? I’ve talked to sponsors who have never even seen their alternative join pages. If you don’t have time to check them yourself, have your CTO, CFO, or another designated employee monitor every join page associated with your sites. If your geo-targeting is too limiting or you cannot change country/language on the join page, you will need to have someone check in each country for you, or use a proxy server to access the join page as if you were a potential user in each country. Know the pros and cons of every aspect of your business. The client-merchant should be able to continue using any current billing solutions, and for example, integrate the additional Webbilling direct debit capability without requiring anything of their webmasters. Webbilling helps manage the entire direct-debit process for its clients, handling all transactions, from withdrawing money directly from bank accounts to managing collection letters (in association with local attorneys) for chargebacks. The client-merchant continues to operate on its existing management software, receives bi-weekly disbursement from Webbilling, and makes webmaster payouts employing their usual method. Any chargebacks are immediately processed through the collection department and because of the pin call security, principal amounts are successfully collected, plus bank and chargeback costs in the majority of cases. Any user who does not join by direct debit is returned to the client-merchant or sent directly to another biller in the client-merchant’s billing cascade as specified in their return URL. When making your alternative processor selection, make sure you really know what you want. Specialization continues to affect every facet of our industry, and credit card processing is now provided by many global companies with increasingly competitive discount rates. Real, specialized Direct Debit – defined as withdrawing funds directly from the users’ bank accounts with real-time access in multiple countries is rare, and remember, even though we call it alternative billing, direct debit is not an ‘alternative’ billing method for the European markets; it is the primary preferred method while credit cards are ‘alternative.’ And make certain you have full control of your traffic and how you want to convert it. Make sure you can continue converting all countries with your existing low-rate credit card solution – even the countries where you implement a direct debit solution. Keep your low rates for credit card processing for all countries, and shop for a discount rate for direct debit as low as 10% depending on your volume. What happens when another billing company goes out of business? We all know about billing companies popping up and the deaths of both large and small companies in the last couple of years. Can you name a processing company that allows you to own the customer data? If your biller went out of business could you go to another direct debit company and continue billing your database? Can you think of a company with that kind of confidence in their service? In a fair and straightforward solution, all merchants are ultimately independent, because they are in the possession of all data and hence there is no risk involved – and they are always in control of their own traffic. You know your cost per acquisition to get that user to your join page. Pick a direct debit provider that allows you to utilize all the marketing advantages of credit card joins. Recurring, free trials, cross sales, upsells, pay-per-minute and -download, tokens, and one-click encrypted joins for specials and cancellation marketing. I think the key word here is F-L-E-X-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The processor is working for you and should also actively engage in monetization of chargebacks on your behalf. Webbilling.com offers real direct debit in Germany, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, enabling U.S. companies to truly capitalize on the European markets like never before. Although no programmer will ever say anything is ‘easy’ – look for comparatively direct sequential and expeditious implementation. Don’t find yourself in a position where you have invested so much effort, energy and programming time in implementing a processor that you don’t even want to look at another possibly better option. 12:15 - 2008-Mar-6
Webbilling.com Team Heads to Phoenix ForumThe Webbilling Team will arrive in Phoenix on March 26th for the best large networking show in the e-commerce industry! Europeans billing Europe. Client Merchants choosing to participate in the current strength of both the Euro and the British Pound may wish to speak with us at the show for more information on implementation of this pull direct debit program for Germany, Austria, Spain, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.We can help you with your online virtual sales in all our regions as well as online hard good sales for those of you with EU distribution networks. Use us with all your current billing mechanisms – we provide the primary preferred billing method for our regions and do not cannibalize any of your current revenue streams – we bring you additional revenue. Implement us in NATS and MPA3 or in your own proprietary management system. If you want the ultimate control, implement us on your own join page – all Webbilling.com join pages can be customized with your own translated text and exclusive graphics. Take the motivating content right through to the purchases button! You won’t be able to miss us at the show, and see us at the Championing International Markets Seminar on Saturday, 1 - 2:30, in the Palm Ballroom. Your only risk is more revenue! |
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