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Posted to dev@fineract.apache.org by Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> on 2019/07/08 19:04:55 UTC
Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money Integration with Hover
Automation SDK for USSD
Hi Community,
We have been in talks with the team at Hover to incorporate their USSD
automation SDK into our mobile banking and mobile wallet apps. Their SDK is
quite powerful in that it allows USSD actions to be more incorporated
directly into mobile apps. So rather than have a user have to go through a
clunky, menu driven user interface you can directly build a nice user
experience in your app to guide those USSD actions.
The benefits include being able to directly incorporate mobile payments in
an app, especially valuable where a mobile money API is not available, an
app can still process payments when data is not available, and your have
full control over the user experience in an app versus a clunky USSD menu.
We are looking to work closely with the Hover team to ultimately offer a
community-wide pricing package to those institutions that might want to use
Hover in their apps but first need to test out the integration.
Each integration is specific to the USSD provider so we need to work with a
small set of partners/users to 1) define the specific actions based on the
USSD menus of that provider and 2) work with a user who can actually test
the app and integration locally on the live network.
Right now we're looking to test out the MTN Uganda Mobile Money connection,
MTN Ghana, Safaricom in Kenya, Airtel in South Asia, Wave Money in Myanmar
and possibly a provider in Latin America. We are also open to testing out
the integration for other mobile money providers so welcome interested
parties to reply to this thread.
Our GSOC interns are working on the integration with the Hover team ready
to support them so we're eager to find some interested pilot users.
Learn more about Hover at:
https://www.usehover.com/
https://medium.com/use-hover/automate-any-ussd-service-on-android-45aa9dd9dfa
--
*Ed Cable*
President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
*Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
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RE: [Mifos-users] Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money
Integration with Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Posted by Allen Bailochan Tuladhar <al...@imperialcoop.com>.
Hi Ed:
We would be interested to explore further and integrate this with our solution.
Regards,
Allen
From: Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 12:50 AM
To: Mifos software development <mi...@lists.sourceforge.net>; mifos-users <mi...@lists.sourceforge.net>; Dev <de...@fineract.apache.org>
Subject: [Mifos-users] Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money Integration with Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Hi Community,
We have been in talks with the team at Hover to incorporate their USSD automation SDK into our mobile banking and mobile wallet apps. Their SDK is quite powerful in that it allows USSD actions to be more incorporated directly into mobile apps. So rather than have a user have to go through a clunky, menu driven user interface you can directly build a nice user experience in your app to guide those USSD actions.
The benefits include being able to directly incorporate mobile payments in an app, especially valuable where a mobile money API is not available, an app can still process payments when data is not available, and your have full control over the user experience in an app versus a clunky USSD menu.
We are looking to work closely with the Hover team to ultimately offer a community-wide pricing package to those institutions that might want to use Hover in their apps but first need to test out the integration.
Each integration is specific to the USSD provider so we need to work with a small set of partners/users to 1) define the specific actions based on the USSD menus of that provider and 2) work with a user who can actually test the app and integration locally on the live network.
Right now we're looking to test out the MTN Uganda Mobile Money connection, MTN Ghana, Safaricom in Kenya, Airtel in South Asia, Wave Money in Myanmar and possibly a provider in Latin America. We are also open to testing out the integration for other mobile money providers so welcome interested parties to reply to this thread.
Our GSOC interns are working on the integration with the Hover team ready to support them so we're eager to find some interested pilot users.
Learn more about Hover at:
https://www.usehover.com/
https://medium.com/use-hover/automate-any-ussd-service-on-android-45aa9dd9dfa
--
Ed Cable
President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
edcable@mifos.org<ma...@mifos.org> | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
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Re: Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money Integration with
Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Posted by Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org>.
I have had some more recent discussions with the Hover team around getting
support from their side to configure parsers to listen to the inbox such
that mobile money transactions affecting accounts in Mifos/Fineract but not
initiated via Hover could still be tracked and captured.
Before I move forward with getting some support from their team, I wanted
to have more defined use cases from our potential pilot users and the
integration of the Hover SDK underway.
For those individuals that expressed an interest previously in piloting the
integration, please take the time to document your USSD actions in this
document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9_pjA3op3anEVLr4SCSYYxdJgo0GfzlWmn6GbM2yr8/edit?usp=drivesdk
It should be editable.
I will also reach out to set up calls with those who have expressed
interest and am working with our mobile development interns to support the
integration of the Hover SDK.
Ed
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 9:39 AM Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> wrote:
> Thank you to all those have responded thus far. Could you please review
> and sample loan repayment workflow based on the MTN mobile money USSD codes
> and do the same for your respective carrier as a separate section in this
> Google Doc:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9_pjA3op3anEVLr4SCSYYxdJgo0GfzlWmn6GbM2yr8/edit?usp=drivesdk
>
> Basically we need to understand what information needs to be entered in
> via a USSD session so we set up the actions properly in Hover.
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 08:40 Patrick Finken <pa...@finksolutions.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> I would be interested to integrate it also in our application and test
>> the integration in Cameroon with Orange.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 03:42, Ippez Robert <ip...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ed,
>>> Yes this mobile money integration is a long overdue cry from the
>>> community. Surely i would also like to be part of the pilot users to test
>>> the integration. It has always been been some module we looked up to in
>>> Fineract since 2014.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Regards
>>> Ippez Robert
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Patrick Finken,
>> Principal Consultant
>>
>>
--
*Ed Cable*
President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
*Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
<http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
Re: Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money Integration with
Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Posted by Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org>.
Thank you to all those have responded thus far. Could you please review and
sample loan repayment workflow based on the MTN mobile money USSD codes and
do the same for your respective carrier as a separate section in this
Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9_pjA3op3anEVLr4SCSYYxdJgo0GfzlWmn6GbM2yr8/edit?usp=drivesdk
Basically we need to understand what information needs to be entered in via
a USSD session so we set up the actions properly in Hover.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 08:40 Patrick Finken <pa...@finksolutions.ca> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> I would be interested to integrate it also in our application and test the
> integration in Cameroon with Orange.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 03:42, Ippez Robert <ip...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ed,
>> Yes this mobile money integration is a long overdue cry from the
>> community. Surely i would also like to be part of the pilot users to test
>> the integration. It has always been been some module we looked up to in
>> Fineract since 2014.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Regards
>> Ippez Robert
>>
>
>
> --
> Patrick Finken,
> Principal Consultant
>
>
Re: Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money Integration with
Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Posted by Patrick Finken <pa...@finksolutions.ca>.
Hi Ed,
I would be interested to integrate it also in our application and test the
integration in Cameroon with Orange.
Regards,
Patrick
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 03:42, Ippez Robert <ip...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> Yes this mobile money integration is a long overdue cry from the
> community. Surely i would also like to be part of the pilot users to test
> the integration. It has always been been some module we looked up to in
> Fineract since 2014.
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Ippez Robert
>
--
Patrick Finken,
Principal Consultant
Re: Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money Integration with Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Posted by Ippez Robert <ip...@apache.org>.
Hi Ed,
Yes this mobile money integration is a long overdue cry from the community. Surely i would also like to be part of the pilot users to test the integration. It has always been been some module we looked up to in Fineract since 2014.
Thanks
Regards
Ippez Robert
Re: [Mifos-users] Seeking Pilot Users to Test Out Mobile Money
Integration with Hover Automation SDK for USSD
Posted by Francis Guchie <fr...@gmail.com>.
Hi Ed,
Currently here in Sierra Leone, we are working closely with one of the
Mobile Network providers. Once we are set it would be nice to test it here
if possible. I can not say much for now nevertheless, i am deeply
interested in seeing this integration work
I am eager to be of help where i can.
My Kind Regards
Francis Guchie Kirago
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:31 PM Ed Cable <ed...@mifos.org> wrote:
> Hi Community,
>
> We have been in talks with the team at Hover to incorporate their USSD
> automation SDK into our mobile banking and mobile wallet apps. Their SDK is
> quite powerful in that it allows USSD actions to be more incorporated
> directly into mobile apps. So rather than have a user have to go through a
> clunky, menu driven user interface you can directly build a nice user
> experience in your app to guide those USSD actions.
>
> The benefits include being able to directly incorporate mobile payments in
> an app, especially valuable where a mobile money API is not available, an
> app can still process payments when data is not available, and your have
> full control over the user experience in an app versus a clunky USSD menu.
>
> We are looking to work closely with the Hover team to ultimately offer a
> community-wide pricing package to those institutions that might want to use
> Hover in their apps but first need to test out the integration.
>
> Each integration is specific to the USSD provider so we need to work with
> a small set of partners/users to 1) define the specific actions based on
> the USSD menus of that provider and 2) work with a user who can actually
> test the app and integration locally on the live network.
>
> Right now we're looking to test out the MTN Uganda Mobile Money
> connection, MTN Ghana, Safaricom in Kenya, Airtel in South Asia, Wave Money
> in Myanmar and possibly a provider in Latin America. We are also open to
> testing out the integration for other mobile money providers so welcome
> interested parties to reply to this thread.
>
> Our GSOC interns are working on the integration with the Hover team ready
> to support them so we're eager to find some interested pilot users.
>
> Learn more about Hover at:
>
> https://www.usehover.com/
>
>
> https://medium.com/use-hover/automate-any-ussd-service-on-android-45aa9dd9dfa
>
>
>
> --
> *Ed Cable*
> President/CEO, Mifos Initiative
> edcable@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649
>
> *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org
> <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
>
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