MyView and PayPoint Status

MyView and PayPoint are still in Alpha testing. That's the bad news. The good news I have added additional features that were brought up by the companies that are going to be doing some beta testing for us.

One of the new features is: PayPoint will support more than one Authorize.net account. This means if you provide billing services for your dealers your dealer can have its own Authorize.net account. This is based on the Divisions you have set up. If you don't set up a separate account for a Division it will utilize the default account.

One thing that has been causing delays in getting PayPoint finished is insuring it performs all the functions necessary. The Authorize.net integration was simple, integrating with Millennium was a little tougher. I wanted to make sure that PayPoint will take into account the possibility of an unallocated receipt. I wanted PayPoint to automatically allocate this receipt with the payment posting. Well, I got it working. The real advantage of your customers utilizing PayPoint will be your staff will not be required to post the transaction or allocate the receipt to an invoice. This will all be done automatically. PayPoint receipt transactions will identifiable in two ways. The check number will begin with "PP" and the payment method will be "Pp". This will allow you easily identify PayPoint transactions in your Millennium software.

One other item has caused a delay. In alpha testing I realized I didn't take into account the new alternate address feature of the Millennium software. Once this has be applied to the MyView software these two modules will be ready to be Beta Tested.

One last note: I am sorry I didn't get a post up last week. I will make sure that I keep this blog up-to-date and make sure I make at least one new post every week to keep you in the loop on our accomplishments.

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What a great day... PayPoint has just one program left to create and then we are ready to alpha test. Beta testing could start as early as next week, just like we planned.

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I had a great week last week. I got MyView and Paypoint nearly to completion. I am starting to shake down the application. So we should be ready to start the beta testing next week some time.

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MyView & PayPoint Only Days Away

We are only days away from the first release of MyView and PayPoint. I just received the last of the information I needed to complete the payment posting page of PayPoint. So we should be cleaning up the release by the end of the week. I will spend next week shaking it down and tweaking the pages and we should be ready for the first beta testers by the following week.

I found it very easy to work with Authorize.net and PayPoint will eventually have an added benefit that will allow your techs to perform collections in the field. They will be able to post credit card or checks electronically in the field using a smart phone.

I am very excited about these new products. I feel there will be a real benefit to our existing Millennium users. The major difference between MyView and WebView will be that even dealers will benefit. WebView was primarily designed for our Millennium Monitoring customers but MyView and PayPoint can be used by both. Our dealers that use the Millennium Reports module will even be able to allow their customers to view alarm history and alarm status.

If you are interested in becoming a beta tester of these new products be sure to contact me as soon as possible. This will be a limited release and I anticipate it closing fast. You can contact me at swright@microkey.com.

Single Server for MyView a Bust for now

I just took a look at the single server option for MyView and PayPoint. Which would keep our customers from having to purchase, install and maintain a web server. This is a possibility but will require a lot more planning than I originally thought. It would delay the release of MyView and PayPoint. It's not our desire to delay the release of the these two products any further so we will put this concept on a back burner for now.