Goodmail Partner, Striata Creates One-Click, No-Registration, In-Email Payments With CertifiedEmail

Allows customers to initiate electronic payment directly from withing the body of email.

This is a Partner Release.

Striata has partnered with Goodmail to add CertifiedEmail to its Secure eDocument Delivery solutions to enhance recipient trust and authentication. This partnership creates a unique ability to initiate electronic payment directly from within the body of an email.

Overview

Striata enables financial institutions and billers in North America to securely deliver electronic statements, bills and other high volume, system generated documents directly into consumer inboxes, without the need to utilize web self service portals.

A key element of this successful and highly adopted strategy is trust in the authenticity of the email message and encrypted attachment.

Striata has partnered with Goodmail to add CertifiedEmail to its Secure eDocument Delivery solutions in order to enhance recipient trust and sender authentication.

This partnership creates a unique ability to initiate secure electronic payment directly within the body of email communications.

Goodmail CertifiedEmail

Goodmail's CertifiedEmail messages are imprinted with unique tokens which ISPs validate individually when the messages are delivered. A blue ribbon envelope icon replaces the standard inbox icon, assuring recipients that the email can be trusted, and is from the sender it appears to be from.

This unique level of authentication and trust allows Striata's innovative one-click payment functionality to be safely incorporated within the body of CertifiedEmail messages.

CertifiedEmail is built directly into the recipient's email application, with no downloads or plug-ins required. It is available only to senders with the best email practices and consumer reputation. Through Goodmail's certification, senders are identified by the ISP as trustworthy, and inbox delivery is guaranteed. Spam, content and volume filters are bypassed and all links and images are rendered by default. The 'pay my bill' button is clearly visible, enabling recipients to initiate payment with ease.

No sensitive payment detail is captured or appears in the body of the email. Only consumers who have previously made payments electronically are given this 'one-click' option. A high-level bill summary is included as well as partial payment identification information, sufficient to allow the recipient to identify what they are paying for and from which account.

CertifiedEmail is supported by the largest email providers and is currently available at AOL, BT, Cox Communications, TELUS and Yahoo!. AT&T, Comcast, RoadRunner and Verizon are in the process of rolling out CertifiedEmail in 2009.

65% of the average recipient email database is covered by the CertifiedEmail ISP partner network. Only recipients who maintain email accounts at these participating ISPs will be able to receive payment enabled email messages. (Those that are not in this network will still receive their bill and can only initiate payment via Striata BillPay the traditional way - via a 'no-registration required', one-click electronic payment facility embedded in the secure attachment.)

The Ultimate in Consumer ePayment Convenience

Striata has revolutionized the payment process by adding Goodmail's CertifiedEmail to its Secure eDocument Delivery Solution, significantly enhancing the consumer billing experience. As with Striata BillPay, CertifiedEmail recipients receive their bill as a secure PDF attachment. Since they can initiate payment directly from within the body of their email, they are not compelled to open the attachment unless they want to view more detailed billing information.

The multiple trust layers associated with Goodmail CertifiedEmail gives recipients peace of mind when receiving and initiating payment within these emails, and are easily recognizable in the inbox by their unique blue trust seal.

With no software to install, no web site to visit and no login required, this solution is the ultimate in consumer ePayment convenience.

 

About Goodmail Systems

Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of e-mail available that assures delivery of all opt-in e-mail messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in e-mail effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top 10 email mailbox providers and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of e-mail available that assures delivery of all opt-in e-mail messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in e-mail effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top 10 email mailbox providers and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

Media Contacts

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The Conversation Group
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