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The Members Group builds wearable payments app for Google Glass
DES MOINES, IA (July 15, 2014) — Today, payments processor The Members Group (TMG) intrigued attendees of the TMG Executive Summit in Lake Tahoe, Calif., with a demonstration of its custom-built wearable payments app.
In a presentation aptly named “The Future of Payments,” TMG Senior Product Manager Brian Day showed financial institution leaders how the app, called See2Pay, works. Built by TMG for use with Google’s smart eyewear Google Glass, See2Pay lets consumers make small-dollar purchases at the point-of-sale with a swipe of the touch pad on the eyewear frames. [For a video demonstration, visit TMG’s YouTube channel.]
The app is a product of the TMG Innovation Lab, a 12-month-old project devoted to building and testing consumer-centric digital payment solutions. The developer team leveraged an established person-to-person (P2P) network to build out the processing system behind the app. Transactions performed through See2Pay are routed through the Dwolla payments platform.
“In addition to helping our clients meet the changing demands of today’s consumers, it’s crucial that we anticipate the ways in which consumers will transact in the future,” said Ryan Anderson, TMG vice president of product and a member of the Google Glass Explorer program. “The experiences that come from this wearable app will give TMG and its clients priceless insight into the behaviors and preferences of the evolving digital consumer.”
TMG will release the app’s code on GitHub, a web-based hosting service for software development projects. According to Anderson, this opens See2Pay up to the larger developer ecosystem and increases opportunities for Google Glass owners to begin using the app now.
Testing of the app’s interface and functionality is complete; further distribution and marketing plans are in development.
About TMG
The Members Group (TMG) is dedicated to creating customized, technology-driven card processing and payment solutions for credit unions and community-based financial institutions across North America. Innovations in fraud management, loyalty programs, alternative payment systems and analytic reporting, and the competitive advantages they create, have helped TMG forge a new standard in offering cutting-edge credit, debit, ATM, prepaid card products and a P2P payment solution. For more information, visit www.themembersgroup.com.