Q&A with IPN’s Lisa Rogers

Q&A with Lisa Rogers:
Lisa Rogers is a Group Product Manager in the Strategic Payments Initiatives division at Intuit

Q: How long have you been working on the Intuit PaymentNetwork (IPN) team (and at Intuit)?
Almost two years on PaymentNetwork, and eight years at Intuit. I love making products that help people manage their financial lives better than they imagined possible.

Q: IPN now integrates with QuickBooks for Mac 2013. Can you tell us what you team did to help push that integration forward?
The IPN team partnered with the QuickBooks for Mac team. They designed and developed the Mac user interface that controls the appearance of “Pay Online” links on QuickBooks invoices, and the feature that downloads payment information right into QuickBooks. We provided the website where the customers go to pay the invoices and the back-end payment processing.

Q: IPN has integrated with QuickBooks Pro/Premier/Enterprise (PC–based versions of QuickBooks) for a couple years. What spurred the interest in integrating IPN with QuickBooks for Mac? Have you seen a big up-take in Mac users?
Lots of Mac users asked us to make IPN work for them. They could use our website to request and receive payments, but it wasn’t integrated with their invoices. They couldn’t automatically record invoice payments in QuickBooks. Now they can!

QuickBooks for Mac 2013, including integration with IPN, went on sale today via Intuit channels, so we’ll see how it goes. Knowing how Mac users love elegant, efficient new technology, we’re expecting lots of customers.

Q: What benefits do small businesses receive from integrating IPN with QuickBooks (either QB for Mac or PC)?
They get paid a lot faster, because their customers find it convenient to just click to pay. No hassles with paper checks, stamps and envelopes, or trips to the bank. And it costs only 50 cents per bank payment processed – no  monthly fees, no minimums, no cancelation fees. If that wasn’t good enough, they can also download payment information right into QuickBooks in a few seconds. That’s a big time saver and it reduces the chance of posting errors.

Q: What do you like to do in your free time outside of working with the IPN team?
I’m a pretty fair cook, an amateur gardener, and an avid reader.  My husband and I love music so we’ve seen a lot of jazz and rock greats perform here in the Bay Area.

QuickBooks for Mac 2013 Adds Integration with Intuit PaymentNetwork

Intuit’s QuickBooks for Mac 2013 is now available, and the latest iteration includes new features that are designed to help users get started quickly, organize their records and simplify common tasks. Notably, Intuit PaymentNetwork (IPN) has been integrated into this year’s QuickBooks for Mac. The news has already generated interest from QuickBooks for Mac fans: ZDNet gushes: “probably the biggest new feature in QuickBooks 2013 for Mac is support for the new (and Freshbooks-like) Intuit Payment Network which allows you to have customers pay their invoices online.” TUAW and Macworld also reported on the news, noting the integration with IPN as a significant feature of QuickBooks for Mac 2013.

Pricing remains the same, each payment is only a 50-cent flat fee for bank payments. The cool thing is that it is fully integrated into QuickBooks: once the bank receives a payment through the Intuit PaymentNetwork, it notifies QuickBooks 2013, which marks the appropriate invoice as paid.

For more information, go to http://quickbooks.intuit.com/mac/

What are you most excited about in QuickBooks 2013 for Mac? Let us know in the comments section, or Tweet at us @IPNTeam.

RadioFree QuickBooks Talks to Mimi Turner about MoneyDue

In May, we launched a new iOS app called MoneyDue. The free app allows users to turn business appointments into payments through the calendar feature on your iPhone or iPod Touch. On Wednesday, August 8^th, Mimi Turner from Intuit will be on RadioFree QuickBooks to discuss MoneyDue and how it helps users keep track of payments owed and payments received all through individual calendar appointments. Additional details on the show are below:

• Date: Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 8, 2012
• Time: 4:30 PM
• Link to listen online: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radiofreequickbooks/2012/08/08/radio-free-quickbooks
• Call in number to speak with the host: 714-583-6883

Check out this quick demo video of the MoneyDue app, and download it today.

Attention QuickBooks Users – Intuit PaymentNetwork Feature Alert!

Did you know you can accept credit cards through Intuit PaymentNetwork in QuickBooks 2012*? You can elect to have customers pay by credit card or with their checking account. This feature can be turned on in QuickBooks 2012, and you can customize this feature to be for one invoice, specific customers, or all customers.

We hope these features will help you get paid faster. Try it out, and let us know what you think! We love hearing your feedback.

*This feature is only available in QuickBooks 2012. Users of earlier versions can turn on/off credit card acceptance by logging into their Intuit PaymentNetwork account under the Profile tab. 

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

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

QuickBooks Online users can now accept credit card payments

This holiday season, while elves are busy making toys … we’re working hard on adding functionality to make Intuit PaymentNetwork even better. This week, we launched a handful of new features and here are just a few highlights:

1. QuickBooks Online users can accept credit card payments.

Turning on this feature gives your customers the ability to use a credit card to pay their invoice. As a QuickBooks Online user, you can manage (turn on/off) this optional feature at any time by signing into Intuit PaymentNetwork and clicking on ‘Profile’ in the left navigation bar. Navigate to ‘Receiving Preferences’ and click the ‘Turn On’ button. That’s it – easy! All invoices you create and send after turning this option ON can be paid by either credit card or bank account. You can turn this option OFF at any time.

2. IPN pay links go mobile!

It’s now even easier for your payors to pay you quickly – wherever they are! We’ve introduced a mobile friendly experience for custom pay links, which allow your customers to easily pay you when visiting your website/Facebook page etc. And now, if customers tap on your pay link through a mobile device* they will see a mobile friendly site (see below).

* Devices supported: iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices. Other devices will display the desktop friendly IPN website.

 3. Scheduling credit card payments

Customers who receive invoices through Intuit PaymentNetwork and QuickBooks can now schedule a credit card payment, once signed in. Please note that merchants must accept credit card payments to activate this feature.

4. Adding other forms of payment

While sending a payment, in addition to selecting previously entered payment accounts, payers can now add a new bank account or credit card without exiting the payment process.

A big thanks to our Intuit PaymentNetwork customers for the feedback, which helps us build great products for you. Keep the comments coming!

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!