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IntellectStorm Marketing Director Ronson Gray

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August 6, 2017

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(DPI, GUYANA) – Payments.gy is a mobile payment platform developed by six young Guyanese from IntellectStorm, in collaboration with the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GTT’s) Mobile Money Guyana (MMG).

“Payments.gy is not simply an app. Payments.gy is a revolutionary platform for Guyana,” IntellectStorm Marketing Director Ronson Gray told the Department of Public Information (DPI). The app designed off of MMG will however be using the merchant side of the MMG to build a platform that allows users and businesses to access a multitude of services.
Gray explained that the app caters for persons selling on the corner to multi-billion purchases. “… If you are a business and if you are a user or customer, it’s just a safer and easier way for you to make purchase,” he said.

This app is dual-authenticated Gray said, meaning once it is downloaded, persons will have to sign up by offering a user name and password that get you into the app. Any payment transaction that the client may wish to process will still require verification with a PIN similar to MMG. The PIN number will protect customers and their documents with which they signed up. Persons will have to deposit their money at any MMG agent, to be able to make purchases.

The six developers: Rowen Willabus, Tristan Thompson, Daraul Harris, Carl Handy, Amrita Ramnauth, Mohini Sugrim, and Davendra Narine from personal experiences taught it best to use the MMG app to develop it locally, so that businesses will be able to benefit more. The app will officially be launched August month-end.
MMG was initially launched in 2013, and the second phase which enabled persons to “Shop n Go” was launched in 2014. It allowed GTT’s customers to pay for goods and services from a wide range of service providers using their mobile devices.

There are over 70 MMG merchant locations across Guyana, including Ashmin’s, Giftland Office Max, New Thriving Restaurant, Jerries, Bel Air Service Station, DeSinco, Nirva’s, Gizmos and Gadgets, Cell Phone Shack, Woodlands Hospital, A and S complex, Charity, Essequibo, among others.
Gray said a survey was conducted and it was found that persons are most interested in the purchase of fast food and movie tickets. Payments.gy has already signed with Princess Movie theatre and Road Runners.

Currently, persons wishing to purchase a movie ticket from Princess Movie theatre can check their Facebook page and once they have selected the movie, time and amount of tickets, will automatically receive a link to the app. Upon payment via the app, they will receive a receipt and so will the theatre.
Whereas with Road Runners, the software now creates a direct link with Restaurants, and Fast Food entities, so customers will now be able to order from the business and pay for delivery. Both the business and Road Runners will both receive a notification; hence the payment time is reduced.

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"The six developers: Rowen Willabus, Tristan Thompson, Daraul Harris, Carl Handy, Amrita Ramnauth, Mohini Sugrim, and Davendra Narine from personal experiences taught it best to use the MMG app to develop it locally, so that businesses will be able to benefit more. The app will officially be launched August month-end."


Drugb,

Your name could have been mentioned,...if....you had put your shoulder to the wheel.

Django
Django posted:

"The six developers: Rowen Willabus, Tristan Thompson, Daraul Harris, Carl Handy, Amrita Ramnauth, Mohini Sugrim, and Davendra Narine from personal experiences taught it best to use the MMG app to develop it locally, so that businesses will be able to benefit more. The app will officially be launched August month-end."


Drugb,

Your name could have been mentioned,...if....you had put your shoulder to the wheel.

Not my line of work. The fault with this system is that it is not connected to the banks but rather through an MMG agent to whom you have to deposit money. They could have leveraged paypal if they banks were not on board. 

FM
Drugb posted:
 

The fault with this system is that it is not connected to the banks but rather through an MMG agent to whom you have to deposit money. They could have leveraged paypal if they banks were not on board. 

I have to agree with you here. I am a skeptic. 

Mitwah

I set up and use the MMG service via GTT cellphone mostly to pay GPL, home internet and telephone. It is good to have instead of cash just login and pay these bills plus quite a few vendors also takes it. The bad thing is the only way to add cash to the account require a visit to just a few GTT locations, no credit card or paypal. I use Guyana Republic bank atm card to make  transfers..

sachin_05
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Django posted:

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Drugb,

Your name could have been mentioned,...if....you had put your shoulder to the wheel.

Druggie can only cry and wail every time a black person does something positive.

FM
caribny posted:
Django posted:

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Drugb,

Your name could have been mentioned,...if....you had put your shoulder to the wheel.

Druggie can only cry and wail every time a black person does something positive.

Hold your horses, note that the Afros may be just front men.  The real brain invariably will be the following:

Amrita Ramnauth, Mohini Sugrim, and Davendra Narine

FM
Drugb posted:
caribny posted:
Django posted:

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Drugb,

Your name could have been mentioned,...if....you had put your shoulder to the wheel.

Druggie can only cry and wail every time a black person does something positive.

Hold your horses, note that the Afros may be just front men.  The real brain invariably will be the following:

Amrita Ramnauth, Mohini Sugrim, and Davendra Narine

Or maybe they prove that not all Indians are members of the Indo KKK. They develop a project with people who they respect and in turn are respected by.

That multi ethnic group of kids did well in the Robotics, and all admitted that they had learned much from that woman whose success obsesses you. Successful because she has been exposing people to technology who might not have otherwise had that opportunity.

FM
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