Bitcoin Forum

Spend-a-bit is a payment system, where everyone can pay with Bitcoins for their favorite services.
We launched our service (beta) at the end of September 2013.
Ultimate goal is to offer as many services as possible to be payable by Bitcoin, for example internet providers, TV services, utility bills and much more.

Right now available:
Prepaid Mobile Top Up in 100+ countries worldwide!

More services coming soon

Hi everyone.
This weekend we spent researching new possibilities for our users.
I'd like to get some feedback from bitcoin-talkers community.

We can make available couple of new services:

• VISA or MasterCard card recharge for cards issued in Russia
• Bank account top up for some Russian banks, like Alfa bank, TRUST, Tinkoff, Russkiy Standart
• VISA card recharge for CIS countries, such as Ukraine

We need to invest some money to make this possible, so my question:
Would anyone be interested?
Please, leave your vote https://tricider.com/en/brainstorming/17DuA (https://tricider.com/en/brainstorming/17DuA) to make it possible for us to calculate feasibiility.
Also tell all of your friends about this - more votes, faster it will be done.
If we find enough people interested we will launch it anyway, but if you don't want to spend months waiting - donations are always appreciated at our website.

Important notice: Service cannot be fully anonymous, it may require phone number for Russian cards/accounts and full name, address for CIS countries

We are not from Russia where criminals launder money with your service.

Very nice stereotypes - Russians are criminals, ha-ha
Why do you flood here anyway?

Do you report to the IRS?

No, should I?

I'm happy to announce, that today we have updated our website!
Release was mostly dedicated to improving internal tools for price management, services configuration and availability monitoring.
New features are not visible to public, but add more visibility and simplicity into our calculations.

What it means for you? It means, that now I can see at least 10 destinations (countries), where we can offer mobile recharge with 0% fees!
Today I've started with United States. From now on all recharges to US mobile operators without any commission!

Stay tuned and wait for future announcements!
By the way, if you like the idea, donations are always welcome at our website.

now Syria MTN also 0% for payments above 1 USD and 10 cents fee under 1 USD

Nice, this will really help bitcoin to spread out.

Nice way to build Bitcoin economy.  I voted on your site.  I hope you become rich.  I was also hoping you did more services than just cell phone minutes.  Keep up the good work.

Thanks a lot, I'm going to for sure. It just all takes time and really hard to manage hundreds of services, regularly test each one and so on.
I can add Indian D2H TV services, Russian banks, internet, social networks, some online games, but I don't want to invest money and complicate things until I have enough demand.

If you live in Russia, why should you report to U.S. govt agency...?! ;D

That is exactly my question, although I don't live in Russia

This week update brings more security into admin part of the system and first prototype of external interface.
Now we're only 1 step (1 week) away from fully automated payments - in a week you'll start receiving your payments as soon as there are enough confirmations in the blockchain, even if I'm asleep :) and ability to work with external interfaces.

Prices updated for Kenya, Morocco, Ukraine, Indonesia and Nepal. Average change: -10%
Still a bit high, but we're on the right track!

Good news, found partner in Ukraine. Wait for the announcement after 2-3 weeks, fees will drop drastically.

It's been a while without news, actually just couldn't find time to post:
We finally released fully automated payments!
Now you get balance to your mobile
- immediately if pay from coinbase account
- after 20-60 minutes if transfer bitcoins from any other bitcoin wallet (system awaiting for 3-6 confirmations of the payment)
- up to 24 hours in case of any problem with your recharge.

We fully eliminated the need for manual confirmation.

When we started the project we planned this milestone as the end of beta period, but now decided to keep beta status because we don't have QA in our team and bugs may sometimes appear :)

Black Friday Offer: 10% discount to all destinations!
How cool is that?!

For some countries, like US it means you can buy 100 USD recharge for 90 USD only!
For countries where we overpriced, it's 10% less overpriced for couple of days :)

I have tried to recharge my indian mobile but not working

There are no failed payments, you may probably mean that payment button isn't working?
I'm experiencing some troubles right now with Coinbase button, but already working on changing worflow a little bit to make it more stable.
Send an email with details to support@spend-a-bit.com to get help further

Special promotion from Cubacel mobile network:

Promotion: Double (2x) Airtime Bonus
Operator: Cubacel (ETECSA)
Country: Cuba
Denominations (CUC): 20 to 50
Date: Tuesday 17 th December to Friday 20th December , 2013 11:59pm (GMT -4)

Terms and Conditions:
- Both, initial amount and bonus amount do not have expiration date to be used.
- Bonus amount can be used by any service available to Cubacel prepaid customers.
- Current prepaid rates will be applied to the bonus amount.
- The final Topup price that the customer will pay will not exceed $ 5.00 USD above the Topup face value.
- Based on the initial amount (without considering bonus amount) Cubacel mobile subscribers will be subjected to the following activation cycle:
From 10 to 19.99 CUC - 60 days
From 20 to 29.99 CUC - 180 days
From 30 to 39.99 CUC - 270 days
From and up 40 CUC - 330 days
- In all cases, after the active period expires, Cubacel subscribers will enjoy 30 additional days to receive SMS and calls from other active mobile (TFA) or from mobiles outside Cuba. This period will allow the customer to Topup the mobile before it gets deactivated.

More special offers from mobile operators!
We created new page which lists active offers here:
http://www.spend-a-bit.com/static/special-offers (http://www.spend-a-bit.com/static/special-offers)

Offers applied to every recharge for specified operators if all conditions met. No need to enter any promo codes.

Spend-a-bit.com just became better!
We had lots of complaints over last month that payment popup isn't stable and doesn't always appear, that's why today we replaced it by simple checkout page
http://static.ow.ly/photos/original/46hci.png

It also gives a hint on one of our upcoming features. Stay tuned!

We're continuously working on improving our relationships with service providers and today I have great news:

3%-10% price reduction for operators in
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
Egypt
Afghanistan
Philippines
Nigeria
India
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Nepal

Finally, fees for Ukranian providers reduced from 31% to 5% + 25 cents
Almost two months we were working on it, completely changed our partners in ukraine and starting today it's became available on our website!
Another new feature - ukraine is first destination, where we can recharge any amount, specified by user, not predefined denominations.

Check this out
https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBgtaHR0cDovL3N0YXRpYy5vdy5seS9waG90b3Mvb3JpZ2luYWwvNGFYcjcucG5nFPwIFIoFABYAEgA&s=5jAiSUlCYxbhsrLtoyTBgDyZ7BNPacFczwcPBfXR6lo

New countries added!
Turkmenistan (Altyn Asyr)
Turkey 2 new operators (Turkcell, Avea) and price reduction for the third one (Vodafone)
Paraguay new network Personal
Costa Rica new network Movistar

Just found an fixed the issue, which caused users from Ukraine to see wrong (old) prices!
Check the fee again! it's 5% + 25 cents only!

Now you can recharge your mobile from Hive wallet!

Application for Hive wallet is ready to use and will be bundled with their next release!
Don't want to wait? Grab it here:
https://github.com/s-a-y/mobile-recharge.hiveapp/releases (https://github.com/s-a-y/mobile-recharge.hiveapp/releases)

BTC withdrawal to Yandex.money activated in beta mode.
Right now payments require manual approval, but this is for beta period only.

Activated BTC withdrawal to Russian Qiwi wallet and CashU AED wallet in beta mode.

Enabled SSL certificate throughout the website. Now every request you make is secure!
Application for Hive wallet will be updated accordingly in few days.

Your web addresses aren't redirecting properly.  I thought your site had been offline for the last few days because I was using the address that my browser auto-completed.
https://spend-a-bit.com
https://www.spend-a-bit.com

Great service by the way.  I've been telling everyone about it at the Bitcoin conferences.

Looks like a very handy service. Bookmarked for future ref!

Hey, you are doing great, Keep it up!!
but your SSL is not working again. Please fix that issue soon. Many people like me would feel better using it all over SSL.
And can't you accept blockchain.info online wallet?

What is the problem with SSL certificate?
Any wallet will work, coinbase is just separate, because it allows transaction to pass immediately.

It would be awesome if you guys can possibly add the UK and the Netherlands by the time the conferences come to town.  Amsterdam is next week, and London is in July

it is a web or app product?

What happened to this service?  It just says "application offline for maintenance" whether I go to Piiko.com or spend-a-bit.com.  it's been this way for a couple weeks.

See any potential problems? I just interviewed a company with the same name...

http://bitcoinist.net/spendabit-search-engine-that-finds-bitcoin-products/

FYI, the new spendabit (https://spendabit.co/) is not affiliated with the old "spend-a-bit" service that helped people top-up their mobile phone credit. We are and were aware of this other service with the 'same name', but it appears the old website (spend-a-bit.com) and piiko.com (https://www.piiko.com/) are both no longer available.

Use mobileshop.ph instead since spend-a-bit is gone

UPDATE:  piiko.com is back in business now, and has way lower fees than mobileshop.ph