- Order ahead & pay, pick-up, delivery services for coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries around churches
- Promotes through social media channels including press, magazine or YouTube.
Harex Infotech (CEO Kyung Yang Park), a provider of user-centric payment platform "UBpay" service, announced on December 27, 2020, that it has signed an agreement with KukminIlbo (CEO JaeWoon Byun) to provide simple offering and simple donation services to Christians based on the UBpay platform.
Amid growing calls for non-face-to-face online worship services due to COVID-19 in the religious community, KukminIlbo, as a media company representing Christians, will serve to promote and distribute simple offering services to major Korean churches.
In cooperation with the KukminIlbo, Harex Infotech will share its user-centric, open-type and universal platform, UB platform(powered by UB), with Churches and Christians to provide Christians with the simple offering and donation services as well as simple mobile payment, order ahead & pay, pick-up, and delivery services.
The simple offerings and simple sponsorship services provided by Harex Infotech has been receiving positive responses from the church members who have already experienced UB platform in their churches, greatly due to its efficiency to automate church activities that were previously mostly manual.
Harex InfoTech currently shares the UBpay platform to enable its partners such as Korea Expressway Corporation, Ulsan Metro City, and Yoido Full Gospel Church to reduce cost and provide optimal non face-to-face service through their own apps.
Kyung Yang Park, President and Chief Vision Officer(CVO) of Harex InfoTech Inc. says, “We will work with KookminIlbo, which represents Christians in Korea to provide the pan Christian community life platform to become an innovative service well received by churches and Christians in the era of non-face-to-face.”
■ Harex InfoTech Inc.
Harex InfoTech Inc. (Kyung Yang Park, CEO), the pioneer of Fintech, announced the first mobile card payment system in the world at Silicon Valley, on April 2000 and holds critical patents applying to almost all steps of mobile card payment services, multi-factor authentication systems combining PIN and biometrics, payment, cash out and remittance service with the mobile and the user centric payment platform shared with alliance partners. Harex InfoTech Inc. received the ‘Best Technology Award’ in Innovation Project Awards hosted by Harvard University in 2013. Harex InfoTech currently supplies the customized services to its alliance partners such as financial institutions, merchants, social-media platforms and various service providers by sharing Harex InfoTech’s own platform of user centric payment and opens a whole new user centric economic world, creating a true sharing economy.
■ UBpay – ‘User Centric Mobile Payment Shared Platform’
UBpay, short for Universal Benefits, is a mobile payment, banking and commerce shared platform that offers an integrated payment service with loyalty points, coupons, rewards and payments all in one for users through their smartphones with all issuers in S. Korea. By enabling users’ smartphones to request payment authorization directly from the financial institutions (like banks or credit card companies), UBpay is entirely differentiated from the conventional payment service in which merchant processors (router) request payment authorization to the financial institutions via middlemen.
Unlike conventional payment services which require the merchant to have the user’s financial information, the UBpay user authenticates directly with the financial institution without passing user’s financial information to the merchant. UBpay and all “powered by UB” apps are currently usable in various online and brick-and-mortar stores like CU (convenient store chain), SSG.com (One of the biggest online shopping mall), culture land (gift certificate exchange), APT maintenance and utility billing (8.5 million households coverage), highway toll payment, church offering service, railroad, taxi, public home shopping, hospital, traditional markets and 630,000 affiliated merchants including small mom and pop stores nationwide in collaboration with Zero pay, sponsored by the S. Korean government.
When businesses that currently offer their own app services with share the UB platform through a partnership, free of charge, they are able to provide not only mobile payment services but also diversified online to brick and mortar services with their own brands. Small merchant’s “My Shop” service enables small merchants to offer mobile order & pay, pick-up or delivery and mobile-based customer rewards services like loyalty points, coupons, stamps. They can also sell their products and services through mobile, “Taxi Call and Pay by mobile”, “Medical FinTech” service offering user one stop medical service from the hospital payment, e-prescription transfer to the drugstore, drugstore payment with allied medical insurance service, and “Recurring Payment” service, etc. are some examples. Moreover, a variety of co-marketing programs can be developed among and between any partners that share the UB platform to increase the number of users, frequency of use, and sales revenue.
