T-Pay

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T-Pay was a payment service provided by Deutsche Telekom AG to make it easy to process paid online content. T-Pay differed from competing systems such as PayPal or ClickandBuy in that it offered a wide range of different payment methods .

The payment service was discontinued on September 30, 2010.

Payment options

The amount was put on the next phone bill and paid with it. This option was only available to T-Home customers .
The prerequisite for this payment method was a telephone connection at Deutsche Telekom with a direct debit authorization.
It has a Micro Money - credit card offered (eg online or in. Telekom Shop with which a) anonymous payment was possible (after entering the card number).

functionality

Customers

After a one-time free registration, paid offers on the Internet could be paid for after entering the personal user name and password.

Dealer / provider

Providers of paid content could register with T-Pay and configure the Internet offer accordingly in order to enable T-Pay payment for customers. The use of T-Pay was chargeable for providers.

Web shops

T-Pay could be implemented as a module based on an interface description and integrated into the payment process of online shops . A well-known web shop for this was, for example, xt: Commerce .

Simplification for T-Online customers

T-Online customers were able to use their T-Online login data to log in as part of the Netzausweis project . The prerequisite for this was the free activation of the T-Online login for T-Pay.

Adjustment of the payment service

The T-Pay payment options Telekom bill , Pay by Call , Call and Pay as well as direct debit and credit card were discontinued on September 30, 2010. Payments with T-Pay were no longer possible. Deutsche Telekom owns the ClickandBuy payment service , which can be used to pay by direct debit or credit card.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ inactive homepage of the T-Pay shopping world
  2. ↑ Telekom with prepaid card for the web on heise online from May 29, 2001
  3. ↑ AllatNet Internet systems - xt: Commerce T-Pay module / T-Pay interface. August 23, 2009, archived from the original on August 23, 2009 ; accessed on December 1, 2016 .

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