Absa app upgrade adds profile pics
Absa has added a first-to-market feature on its banking application for smartphones and tablet devices, with the ability to assign profile images for beneficiaries and other benefits with its update.
The unique and improved features include the ability to add and make a once-off bill payment; improvements to the CashSend service and the ability to make an immediate interbank payment to a beneficiary.
The bank says its app builds on a strong foundation of infrastructure developments while leveraging shared global resources to deliver value to customers.
"More than 200,000 business and individual customers are already enjoying the speed and convenience offered by the app," says Arrie Rautenbach, head of retail banking at Absa. "Our customers will find that the improvements will make their lives much easier.
"By adding ability to assign profile images to beneficiaries, customers are able to identify the people that they pay most often, quickly and easily and also enjoy being able to personalise their app experience, which is in line with our goal of developing tools that allow our customers to prosper.
"The award winning Cash Send service remains popular with more than R1 billion in payments made in 2012. By giving customers the ability to resend the withdrawal SMS to the recipient and the ability to change the customer-selected access code, the service via the app has become a lot more intuitive and convenient."
The app is available for tablet computers and smartphones running Android or Apple's iOS as well as the most common BlackBerry devices including the new Z10.
