The Finnish postal operator Itella has signed a cooperation agreement with Suomen VerkkomaksutOy, the leading Finnish online payment solutions provider, making its e-transactions service
NetPosti available in most Finnish online stores.Finnish customers can now receive the invoice for their online purchases directly in theirNetPosti mailbox by clicking NetPosti’s “invoice button”.
Customers can pay the e-invoices received on NetPosti by logging to their online bank. Thee-invoice will be stored in the NetPosti archive for seven years free of charge. To receiveinvoices via NetPosti, customers are required to register as NetPosti users. In addition to onlinepurchase invoices, other e-invoices and e-letters can be received via NetPosti ranging frompayslips to messages from the authorities.
“The NetPosti customers are active users of online services and online stores. Therefore, it’snatural for us to make the service available in online stores. Paying for your online purchaseswith an e-invoice delivered in your NetPosti mailbox is a safe way to shop online. Moreover, youronline purchases will be documented in your personal NetPosti archive,” said Pasi Ketonen, BusinessDevelopment Director of NetPosti.
Lennu Keinänen, CEO of Suomen Verkkomaksut, commented: “The introduction of the NetPosti invoicebutton is a great improvement for both the online merchants and the customers. Online stores wantto offer their customers comprehensive service. Consequently, a versatile palette of paymentoptions enhances the customer experience. Especially when larger sums are concerned, consumersappreciate the option to pay with an invoice.”
NetPosti is Itella’s secure electronic service for consumers, including a mailbox, a seven-yeararchive, over 1,700 electronic forms, and over 170 electronic editions of magazines from 80different publishers. At the moment, there are 4,000 sender companies and over 230,000 customersusing the service. In 2009, over 3.1 million e-letters were delivered to consumers throughNetPosti.
As Finland’s leading provider of online payment solutions, Suomen Verkkomaksut serves more than1,500 online stores in Finland, including companies like Sanoma Entertainment, Bilia and Sovella.Suomen Verkkomaksut offers all online payment methods in one package in an affordable and easy way.Furthermore, the company guarantees quick payment to the online stores with customers gettingeither the desired product or their money back, Itella added.
