Fri, Oct 28 – Premium Member Update

Premium membership is now available! Becoming a Premium member gives additional benefits above and beyond what standard VirtaPay members already have.

What does Premium membership include?

Premium members get the following benefits:

Ad Sharing. Actually, by activating Ad Sharing, your account is automatically upgraded to Premium membership. Note: If you have already activated Ad Sharing, your account is now upgraded to full Premium membership.

Increased VP$. Premium members now get an increased allowance of VP$100/day added to their VirtaPay account. This amount is pro-rated and will only be added to your account each day you log in. Also, if you go longer than two days without logging into your account, you will not be back-paid for the time beyond two days.

Upgrades for Sellers. Premium Sellers get three new features: [1] Premium Sellers can now sell up to 25 items (instead of just 5). [2] Premium Sellers can charge up to VP$50 (instead of VP$25). [3] Premium Sellers will have the Premium Seller icon shown next to the items they are selling on our Buy page.

API Affiliate. When our API affiliate program is ready, Premium members will be allowed to participate. This program will pay up to US$50 per month (or more). We’ll let you know when this program is ready.

And More… We will be adding more benefits for Premium members in time. We will post about it in the blog when they become available.

How do you get all the benefits of Premium membership? Just activate Ad Sharing. If the previous link doesn’t work, just log into your VirtaPay account and click the link in the main menu titled: Activate Ad Sharing.

API Update

The launch of our upcoming API (Application Programming Interface) will allow the independent creation of web services that use the VirtaPay currency. Up until now our services have been limited to only those created by VirtaPay. Once the new API is ready, anyone will be able to develop web services that integrate VirtaPay payments.

This will allow individuals and businesses to create a range of new services that use the VirtaPay currency, giving our users many more choices in how to spend and use their VirtaPay account balance.

Our developers continue to work on the API. We will release more information as it becomes available.

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what site that has been online for 2 yrs? is it virtapay?

Wed, Nov 9 – Update on the API

We have some good news to share in today’s blog post. Version 1.0 of our new API (Application Programming Interface) is nearing completion. It looks like it will be ready to go live nearly a month before we expected!

If you’re a new user and haven’t read about how the API could benefit VirtaPay users, you may want to read this blog post first.

What’s left to finish?

There are two main areas that need work before the API goes live:

Our developers have created all of the API functions for Version 1.0 of the API. They are now doing some final testing before it goes live.
We are preparing documentation to explain to programmers how to call the API functions and how to process the results.
What’s planned next?

Once those things are finished, we will make the API available to all VirtaPay users at no cost for a while. This will give people and companies a chance to build web services that integrate VirtaPay payments. It will also allow us to do further testing and get feedback from API users to make sure the API is operating properly.

We don’t have specific plans for how long the API will be available for free. But, we eventually plan to make the API only available with a paid subscription for an API license. When the API becomes a “paid only” service, our Premium members can earn US$ from this as our exclusive affiliates. Learn more in this post.

Who can use the API?

The API will be available to all VirtaPay users. However, to create a web service that uses the API to integrate VirtaPay payments, you will either need web programming knowledge or you could hire a freelance web programmer.

An early tip for those eager to get started… the API will be a RESTful interface that returns results as JSON objects. You will only need to know what that means if you plan to develop a web service that uses the VirtaPay API.

What can the API be used for?

There are many useful services that VirtaPay users are hoping to see and just waiting for someone to develop using the API. Here are a few ideas: currency exchanges; get-paid-to websites; marketplaces (for both physical and digital items. mobile payment apps; in-game currency, etc.

We recently posted a more detailed answer to the blog. Be sure to have a look at this post if you are interested in developing a web service that integrates VirtaPay payments, or if you’re just interested to see what’s on the horizon as a VirtaPay user.

At this point, we expect Version 1.0 of the API to go live near the beginning of December. We’ll post more details as they become available.

Mon, Nov 28 – API Version 1.0 is ready!

The new API is now ready for testing. As we have mentioned in previous blog posts, we expect the API to open the door to new web services that will integrate VirtaPay payments.

Who is the API for? How do I use it?

To get a better understanding of the API, who it’s for and how to use it, visit the API Details page. To create your own API key, visit the API Access page.

IMPORTANT: The API is intended for users who know how to program web services. If you choose to create an API key, keep it a secret. Never share it with anyone you don’t trust. If your account has an API key, anyone who has that key will have the power to access your account, and even send payments. Again, be sure to keep it secret, like you would any password.

What functions does the API allow?

Version 1.0 of the API has the following functions available:

Get your account balance.
Post a payment from your account to any VirtaPay user.
Get transaction details on any transaction in your account.
We may add more features in future upgrades to the API.

What benefit will the API bring to VirtaPay users?

Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing that yet. But, we hope to see many new services begin to integrate VirtaPay payments using the API. This could include “get-paid-to” websites, currency exchanges, marketplaces for both physical and digital items, use of VP$ as an in-game currency, and more. The API opens the door for web services to integrate VirtaPay payments in a way never before possible.

How will developers know what people want?

Coming soon, we will post polls to find out what services our users want most. These polls will be shared with developers who want to create services based on the API.

In addition, we will soon begin accepting submissions from developers who have created services that use the API. We will review these submissions and notify VirtaPay users (using the blog) about the services we think you’ll like the most.

So, if you’re a web developer who already knows what you want to create using the API, get started today! There are over 150,000 VirtaPay users waiting to start using your new service.

Why do I need to waste my time with Money that can not be changed?
The VirtaPay money will just be there useless without anybody accepting it.

A BIG SCAM SITE WITH LOT OF FAKE MONEY!

What a waste of time and hopes. Been 3 months since i received any activity and about $20 at each log-in on fake money. Never going to happen.

Update!!

Fri, Apr 27 – An Apology and a Vision for the Future

It’s been a while since our last post — please accept our sincere apologies. Don’t worry, VirtaPay is alive and well and ready to push into new territories.

Where we’ve been…

Once we released the new Open Payments framework and the API, we wanted to let things run for a while as we watched for any problems or issues that may have arisen. We are happy to report that everything is running smoothly with both Open Payments and the API.

During these past months, we were also working on new plans for moving VirtaPay forward in a big way.

Where we are headed…

We have been working behind the scenes, deciding the best way to take VirtaPay to the next level. The final level. We are now ready to begin working to bring the VirtaPay currency into worldwide acceptance as a universal payment method.

What does this mean for you?

Provided our new plans are effective…

You will be able to spend your VirtaPay balance as you would any other world currency on any product or service available online, and eventually even offline.
You will be able to exchange your VirtaPay balance freely into or out of any world currency of your choice.
More details soon

In this post, we wanted to let our users know that VirtaPay is alive and well. In our upcoming posts, we will provide you with more details about our new plans and the changes coming to VirtaPay as we begin our new drive forward.

Wed, May 2 – Big Plans for Big Changes

As mentioned in our last blog post, we are preparing to take VirtaPay to the next level… the final level. Our goal is to bring the VirtaPay currency into worldwide acceptance as a universal payment method.

Step 1: Facebook becomes optional

While it’s true that many people love to use Facebook, there are also many who don’t like it and refuse to use it. There are also people who are unable to create or use a Facebook account for various reasons.

Just because someone doesn’t like or can’t use Facebook does not mean that they shouldn’t be able to use VirtaPay. Limiting our users to a Facebook login works against our current goals of becoming a universal payment method.

And so, our first step will be to bring back a standard login, while leaving the Facebook login as an option for those who want to continue using it.

The master plan begins…

Once the Facebook login has been made optional, we will begin work on a long list of changes that have been carefully calculated to transform the VirtaPay currency into a worldwide universal payment method. We call this our “master plan”.

As part of this transformation, you, our current EarlyBird users, will have multiple opportunities to earn significant sums of VirtaPay currency.

This is especially exciting when you consider that our plans are designed to let you eventually spend or exchange your VirtaPay currency as you would any other world currency.

When will these changes happen?

We are beginning immediate work on the new master plan. The plan consists of multiple phases and as each phase is developed, it will be added to the VirtaPay website and put into immediate use.

Because each phase of the master plan builds on the previous phase, we expect it will take 4 or 5 months to reach the final phase. According to our current timeline, the master plan should be 90-100% complete, developed and in action by the end of September 2012.

We will post more information soon.

Fri, May 11 – Facebook Login is now Optional

The first step in our master plan is now complete. Facebook login is now optional.

How this affects things…

This change will open up VirtaPay to a wider audience worldwide. Not everyone likes Facebook, but even those who do may not be able to use it for various reasons. So, starting now…

New users will have the option to log in with a username and password or using Facebook.
Existing users can now create a username and password to use instead of—or along with—Facebook. Note: To do this, click on the new “Account Settings” link when you are on the main “My Account” page.
If you created your VirtaPay account last year, before we went to 100% Facebook logins, you can now use just your VirtaPay username and the original password you used to sign up. Just use the new login button found at the top of the VirtaPay website…

The next steps…

We are now preparing to move to the next phase in our master plan. As we talked about in our last post, our master plan has been designed to bring the VirtaPay currency into worldwide acceptance as a universal payment method.

We’ll have another post soon to explain more exciting details of what’s next for VirtaPay.

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But how this site works ?

Seems like SCAM

This post has been edited by goodguy333: Jun 8 2012, 07:43 PM

basically it will we a e-currency (like paypal, payza, lr) you should login everyday so you can ear the daily bonus ($20) and referrer people (earn 25 now) They said that will be launch 1 september or so. They are in pre-launch and in this time you will earn for the things that i said. Sorry the bad english

It is a scam