New! Mobile Payments + Custom Branding

Your customers can now pay from their smart phones

You can now create your own QR payment code. Your customers can then use this code to pay you from their mobile phones. ITS THAT EASY!

Steps for small businesses:

1) Log in to IPN and click on ‘Enable Mobile Payments’ on the left

2) A QR code will be generated that you can use by:

a) Printing on ‘Event Fliers’, ‘Marketing Banners’ or a fliers that you can paste at your retail store

b) Copying and pasting it on your printed invoices, emails, etc

Steps for your customer:

1) Download a QR Code reader on their Android or iPhone (if they do not have one already)

2) Scan your image to pay you

Extending branding capabilities to ‘eCommerce’ and ‘Payment Request’ flows + More Colors

You can now apply ‘Your’ small business brand across pay link, eCommerce and ‘Payment Request’ flows. Just click on the ‘Branding Customization’ button on the left to use this feature.

Also, you now have more colors to choose from to match your website or business style. Here is an example of what your customers will see after you customize it:

Enjoy and please provide feedback. These requirements were built on feedback we received from you.

- Your IPN team

Outbound Payments for Small Businesses: You can now PAY any of your vendors, customers or contractors using IPN

In addition to receiving payments using IPN (Accounts Receivables), you can now send payments to anyone (Accounts Payable).

As an IPN Small Business, you can send a payment to someone who doesn’t have a PaymentNetwork account (your vendor, customer, contractor, etc). It’s super easy for them to collect the funds.

To get started, log into IPN and click on “Send Payment” or “Pay Vendor” in the left nav. In the Send Payment form, type in the email address of the person you need to pay, and the amount you want to pay.

IPN will send an email to the person you’ve sent a payment to, asking them to accept the payment. This is a one-time step your vendor has to do. Thereafter all future payments are directly deposited into a bank of their choice.

Please try this service out and tell us what you think!

Your IPN team

Customers can now see your brand on Pay Links + Guest eCommerce payments

Introducing Customizable PayLinks!

You already know that you can create your own unique pay link URL to paste wherever convenient for customers, but now you can:

• Upload your own logo
• Create a slogan
• Choose a color theme

After making your branding choices the new payment page that your customers see will look like this:

In the above example the small business picked an ‘Orange’ theme and the slogan is ‘Automobile Parts’.

For those of you that don’t have pay links you can easily create one by logging in to IPN and clicking on ‘Custom Pay Link’ tab on the left.

Guest payments and credit card on eCommerce buttons!

Customers that pay you by clicking on an eCommerce button are no longer needed to sign up for an IPN account. (they can do guest payments). Also if you have credit card turned on, they can pay you via VISA or MasterCard.

For those of you that don’t have eCommerce buttons you can easily create one by logging in to IPN and clicking on ‘Ecommerce Buttons’ tab on the left.

Please check these new features out and let us know what you think.

- Your IPN team

$25 – Special offer for first 1,000 IPN customers

Get $25 for trying custom pay links!¹

How to get your $25:

1.       Get started:

Sign up on our website to accept online payments

2.       Create custom pay link:

Copy and paste it anywhere – invoice, email or website

3.       Your customer pays you online:

Funds are sent directly to your bank

TRY IT NOW!

¹Important disclaimers, disclosures and notes

Offer good through June 30, 2012 and is available only for new active IPN users in good standing.

Once you sign up, you can use Intuit PaymentNetwork to create a custom pay link in your invoices and statements. When you use this custom pay link for payment by anyone other than yourself or Intuit and are paid by a customer through this custom pay link, Intuit for the first 1,000 eligible IPN members will deposit twenty-five dollars ($25) into your PaymentNetwork-affiliated bank account. The $25 payment is available to the first 1,000 who generate, use and get paid via an Intuit PaymentNetwork custom pay link before June 30, 2012. Limit one payment per PaymentNetwork account.

A PaymentNetwork account has no monthly fee, no set-up fee, and no termination fee. Requires merchant account through Intuit PaymentNetwork, provided by Intuit Payment Solutions. Application approval, an internet connection and a supported web browser required. Transaction fees apply. Terms, conditions, pricing, features, service and support are subject to change without notice.

Guest payments and credit card on Custom Pay Link

You don’t need to sign up to purchase groceries; or to dine at restaurants. Then why do you need to sign up to pay with IPN???

We are now getting rid of mandatory sign ups for those paying by custom pay links. A payor can now click on a custom pay link and initiate a guest payment. Also, if the small business has enabled credit card, a payor can initiate a credit card payment on a custom pay link.

• Screenshot of the new custom pay link payment page

• What is a custom pay link?

A custom pay link enables a small business to get paid from any channel they want (Facebook, Craigslist, etc). To create your own pay link click on the ‘Custom Pay Link’ tab on the left once you sign in to IPN.

Please provide us feedback!

Thanks,

Your IPN team

Increase payment conversion by using IPN – Getting rid of sign ups

Dear users,

We work hard at helping you get paid fast. Based on your feedback we launched the following new features:

1) Guest payments on payment requests

Customers that receive ‘Payment Requests’ sent from IPN do not need to sign up anymore to make a payment. They can do one time ‘Guest Payments’.

Signing up does gives them the benefits of doing recurring payments and saving their bank account and credit card information for future payments…. but its not mandatory anymore.

2) Pay button on payment requests

Based on your feedback we have incorporated a ‘Pay By IPN’ button on payment requests.

3) Increased focus on your small business brand

The pay page on a payment request now says ‘Pay Payment Request from Your Company Name‘ at the top.

Here are some screenshots of our new features:

• New Payment Request email that a customer receives:

• Guest payment page when a customer clicks to pay:

Please provide feedback on these features.

Happy Thanksgiving from your IPN team

Help us spread the word – Like us on Facebook

WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

Follow us on Twitter (@ipnteam) and check us out on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/IntuitPaymentNetwork)

You can also tweet about us (Twitter), recommend us (Facebook) or like us (Facebook) from the IPN Home Page

Top 5 reasons for joining our fan base:

1) Give us feedback. Your feedback has helped us improve IPN (recurring payments, pay links, guest payments, etc). Now you can post your thoughts on Facebook and we will consider your suggestions

2) Get updates on latest features and releases. You can now check our ‘What’s New’ section on Facebook or read our posts/tweet to be abreast of the latest features we launch

3) The more you rave about us….the more it helps awareness. With every like, recommendation or tweet, more users find out about IPN and start using IPN. This in turn helps you get more payments through IPN

4) Find out what others are saying about us.

5) and last but not the least…”We like you”.  As our esteemed customers we would love to have you be part of our social networks

IPN sign up in QuickBooks Online (QBO) is now simpler than ever

We’re happy to announce that we’ve rolled out a new and improved IPN signup in QuickBooks Online (QBO)

You can sign up for Intuit PaymentNetwork inside QuickBooks Online in the following ways:

• From Company > Preferences, on the side menu, select Accept Online Payment and then click Learn More

 

• From Create Invoice, click on Learn more under “Let customer pay online” in the Delivery Information box.

New improved sign up lets you get started in minutes.

 1)      It’s just one step: create an account using your QB online log in info and let us know which bank account you would like your invoice payments to be deposited into.

2)      Next, set up QuickBooks Online to record Intuit PaymentNetwork payments automatically.

 

 

Receiving more payments through IPN

While we’ve simplified signup, we recognize that our customers often need more processing power. You can either apply for higher limits right away, or later, by logging in to http://ipn.intuit.com.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

Significantly better “Reconciliation” for QuickBooks 2012

Dear users,

For the last few months you told us:

1) Is there an easier way to connect my QB company file with IPN?

2) Which business profile in SYNC manager should I use to link to IPN? There are many I have created and don’t really know which one I should use.

3) The current process of reconciling is complicated and is very challenging to understand and use.

4) Why does SYNC do double posting on my invoices?

5) Why cant I reconcile my 50 c fees in QB? My bank statements don’t match my deposits in QB. Can you fix this?

6) Whats a realm id?

We took all of your inputs and recently launched a turbo charged way to reconcile in QB 2012. Here is what you can now do to close your books

Access reconciliation directly from your Quick Books

Once you are in the QB company file that you want reconciled with IPN, go to the ‘Online Services’ menu in QuickBooks then click ‘Intuit PaymentNetwork’ and select ‘Download Payments’

Login to your IPN account that you want reconciled

Download payments into QuickBooks

• Click the ‘X’ if you don’t want to select a specific payment to download

• You can either chose to only close invoices or also choose to do bank deposits. Bank deposits will automatically record the fees against the QB bank you pick. Fees will be marked in an ‘IPN Fees’ expense account in QuickBooks

• You can select a single payment or multiple payments

• Both ACH (bank payments) and Credit Card payments can be reconciled

• Only payments off QB invoices can be reconciled

Confirmation

View downloaded history

Enjoy and please provide feedback on this feature…Your comments truly help us build a better product.

- Your IPN team

Donate buttons for non-profits, credit card on payment requests and a slick new home page

Dear users,

Thanks for providing feedback on the recent features we launched. Based on what you told us, we now have the following enhancements in IPN:

• Donate buttons

This is particularly useful if you are a non-profit and want to get paid for only 50 cents a payment from your web site. You can create blue and orange ‘Donate’ buttons when you add a new button from your ‘ECommerce Buttons’ menu on the left in IPN.

• Credit card payments on payment requests

We are extending credit card capabilities beyond QuickBooks invoices. Now as a small business when you turn CC capabilities ‘ON’ from your ‘Profile’ menu on the left in IPN, your customers can pay you using CC when they do an email payment from IPN or when then click the pay button on your payment request.

• Invoice/Reference # field in ‘Send Payment’ and ‘Request Payment’ flows

You can now track your payments or payment requests with a reference #. This reference # can be an account #, invoice # or any other identifier that you want to use.

• Memo field in ‘Custom Pay Link’

When customers pay from a customized pay link they can now enter a message. Some examples of messages could be ‘Payment for bolts delivered’, ‘Payment for account # 21269′, etc

• Emails on scheduled payments

You will now receive an email notification when a customer schedules a payment for a future date letting you know when the payment is scheduled for.

• New IPN home page

Slicker , cleaner home page that focuses on the key benefit to users (50 c payments) and other value added features (eCommerce payments, QB integration, etc)

As always…. please continue to provide feedback on what you like about the existing features of IPN and what enhancements you would like us to build to better serve your needs.

Thanks,

The IPN team