The government support project benefits from WiPay’s payment solution that enables digital grants offered under the Government of Jamaica.
Are there enough bread and butter customers who need new options for travel, phone service and loan services to make those add-on businesses worth the time of WiPay.
“Failure to share the vision and mission can lead to misalignment of that business or ministry with the IT plan.”
The service has processed hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions with a 99.9 per cent uptime.
“We’re not just adding another feature to the COLOUR App, we’re addressing key pain points like foreign exchange restrictions and high booking fees.”
It’s early days yet for the project, but a shopping experience that was meant to emphasise indigenous products might have benefited from front-loading with more exemplary craft and artisan art products.
Courtpay was frozen in 2020 when the Treasury created a new rule that a bank must provide this service and it cannot be run via a Judiciary bank account.
WiPay has proposed a proof of concept initiative, the Digital Disbursements Pilot Project, to last three months, which the company estimates is worth $1.2 million.
Aldwyn Wayne opened WiPay’s new corporate headquarters on Friday in Jamaica.
“It’s a step toward becoming a cashless society, we want to become a digital economy.” Pamela Moses.
WiPay is awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records on the achievement. The current record for the same achievement is 500 websites.
Plans for a caravan going into towns and villages to demonstrate the service, were abandoned with covid19 numbers rising in the Caribbean.
Participants in Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada will not count toward the total tallied by Guinness, but will benefit from the first free month on the service.
“We found in WiPay a knowledgeable partner to bring our vision to life and are excited to partner with them to bring these robust solutions to the market.”
“As with all new advances there were some early challenges, but with that out of the way, people were spending with our purveyors and farmers.”
