Wed, Jun 29 – Progress Update | VirtaPay Blog

Wed, Jun 29 – Progress Update | VirtaPay Blog

In the next 4 to 6 weeks we have even more exciting new features planned to go live.
The upcoming Stage 2 launch of the Digital Delivery project is designed to encourage
VirtaPay Sellers to post valuable digital products you can buy with your VirtaPay balance.
In addition, we are adding features that will help you start earning regular money to your
existing bank account.

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Stage 1 of the Digital Delivery (DD) project has been live for a few weeks now. In that time, we have decided to integrate Facebook more deeply than we originally planned. It is very important that all VirtaPay users read this post to understand what Facebook integration features are in the works and why. Please read on…

Why Facebook integration?

From the time we gave our users the ability to sell items, certain people or organizations have been flooding the item listings with inappropriate items. This is an abuse of our service and resources. It also pushes out our valued users who are trying to buy and sell legitimate items.

The item spammers have disrupted our service to the point where many of our valued users don’t even bother to look at the items on the Buy page any longer. They are tired of seeing the spam listings. The spammers have been creating multiple accounts to post the same unwanted, inappropriate items over and over.

Although we have come up with many ways to slow the flood of inappropriate items, and have continuously deleted the multiple accounts of the spammers, it hasn’t been effective enough.

Facebook account required…

We will soon require all users to link a Facebook account to their VirtaPay account. Facebook provides identity verification services that will help eliminate the abusive users. We expect that by taking this step the problem of item spammers and multiple accounts will become far more manageable. In addition, it will help free our developers to continue working on new features and improving our service, rather than constantly struggling to find ways to stop abusive users.

We may eventually remove the requirement for all VirtaPay users to link a Facebook account. But, during our development stages,

while we are still developing our service, it will soon be a requirement for all users.

What features are coming?

Stage 2 of the DD project is in the works. The Facebook integration is part of Stage 2.

• You will soon be able to log into your VirtaPay account using Facebook.
• You will be able to send payments by pulling up your Facebook friends instead having to know the recipient’s VirtaPay username.
• Your Facebook friends will be able to easily send you a VirtaPay payment.

Stage 2 will also include new features designed to help you begin earning a steady flow of regular money (US dollars, euros, pesos, etc.) to your existing bank account. These cash flow features will work whether you’re a Buyer, a Seller or both.

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Wed, Jun 1 – Stage 1 Update (part 2)

Posted on June 1, 2011 by VirtaPay

Since the launch of Stage 1 of the Digital Delivery (DD) project, thousands of our EarlyBird users have been helping test the features. This testing has helped us fix problems and prepare a list of items for the next stage. Stage 2 is where things get really exciting.

What’s coming in Stage 2?

Most of the new features coming in Stage 2 are designed to help you begin earning US$ in addition to VP$.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to use your VirtaPay account as a Buyer, a Seller, or both—we are working to give all of our users the tools you need to start a steady flow of “regular money” to your existing bank account using VirtaPay.

Keep up the good work…

Buyers: Please check the website regularly and see if there are any new items worth buying. If you find one, please reward it with a high rating. Please keep in mind that Stage 1 is mainly for testing. We expect the quality of products offered to get much better in Stage 2.

Sellers: Please continue posting items for sale. Remember to focus on quality. Create your own digital product (ebook, photographs, etc). Offer something of real value. The buyers are not interested in products that are nothing more than links to other websites. If you learn to do this now, you will have a head-start on all of the other Sellers when Stage 2 launches. (Note: The maximum price for an item has been lowered to $25 because most of the high priced items listed were prohibited items.)

We don’t have an exact estimate for when Stage 2 will launch, but, we’ll keep you updated as we get closer. Thanks for participating as we work to take VirtaPay to the next level". Unquote

It seems as if this program is really developing - it is getting more and more exciting. Can't wait for it to eventually prove all the doom prophets wrong!