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E-Complish releases texting service for bill payment

E-Complish has released a new payment system called E-Complish Text2Pay, a mobile text-based service that allows users to accept a wide variety of payment types through SMS text messaging.

Telescope.tv, the company behind text voting for American Idol, The Voice, The X-Factor, the NBA and more, is providing the technology for Text2Pay, E-Complish said in a press release.

E-Complish Text2Pay is designed to guarantee text message delivery, to be compliant with the FCC and Mobile Marketing Association's Best Practices, and provides easy integration with all E-Complish solutions using its all-in-one online payment system, VirtualPay, the company said in a press release. E-Complish said the new service has been designed from the ground up to enhance its already diverse payment solutions.

Customers will be notified via text messaging of their upcoming bill. Upon entering their preselected PIN, the customer can elect to safely pay their bill through E-Complish Text2Pay, any time of the day, using their securely stored payment information. It is completely up to the customer whether they want to use E-Complish Text2Pay as a "reminder only service" or "reminder and payment service," but E-Complish expects fast adoption of both reminders and payments from customers, the company said.