[ANN] Plutus [PLU] — Earn 3% Back in Crypto on Every Debit Card Payment

[David_Plutus]

Progress Update

Last week was an awesome week for us at Plutus HQ. We've officially passed our audit which was carried out by our banking provider, and now we're looking forward to the growth of our user base.

Internally we're working on adding additional functionalities to our Plutus Mobile Application, and are focusing on preparing for the upcoming on-boarding of our early bird users.

[David_Plutus]

Progress Update - Early Bird Access

The team are currently preparing all the final details for our Early-Bird onboarding and next week we’ll be able to share some very exciting news!

Now is the time to start getting excited - We can’t wait to share our creation with the community and we can assure you it was worth the wait.

Keep your eyes on our social media for updates on how to secure a place.

[PLUTUSit]

Teaser - Card Reveal

Our CEO, Danial Daychopan, has revealed the first glimpse of our Plutus Card. https://twitter.com/DDhopn/status/1191781939000336384

Tomorrow, we'll be offering our loyal community early access to our Plutus features and shipping out free Plutus Cards to all participants. If you're looking to gain Early-Bird access to both our web and mobile applications, join our Discord.

[PLUTUSit]

Get Early-Bird Access to Plutus

This week, our community received exclusive access to our new and improved services and the feedback has been incredibly positive! You can read more about our Early-Bird release from our blog linked below.

https://medium.com/plutus-it/early-bird-access-to-plutus-7bb4e4913fa1

[David_Plutus]

The Plutus Mobile Application Has Arrived!

The time is here. The Plutus Mobile Application is available on both Android & iOS!

The application allows you to have full control of your finances on the go. For users who've yet to register, you can do so using our sleek, user friendly, mobile application.

Download the app for Android here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.plutus.android

Download the app for iOS here:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/plutus/id1410685948

[PLUTUSit]

Plutus Monthly Report — Exclusive Early Access (November 2019)

Welcome back to our monthly report, the team is proud to announce that the Plutus platform now has paying customers enjoying our full-range feature set. This month’s report will highlight all the changes made leading up to the release and our current courses of action.

Pinned Announcements

- Our community has been granted Early-Bird access to our services.
- Submit your email address to the ‘waiting list’ section of our website and you’ll receive access within 24–48 hours.
- A complete public version of our services will be available in the coming weeks.

General Update

Early-Bird Onboarding
Last week, our Plutus services went live for our cherished community members to enjoy and the feedback has been exceptionally positive. This is a historic moment for Plutus and marks our entry into the growth stages of our company life cycle. The team will now be adapting all future product developments and marketing campaigns around the feedback and insights harnessed from our newly established customer base.

Development Update

Getting on the Android/iOS App Store
The marketing team wrote the copy for the Google PlayStore and Apple App Store descriptions and designed three images to breakdown our app features simply. The dev team has submitted and configured our mobile application so our Early-Bird users can enjoy our services on-the-go.

Feature Implementation
The development team is continuing to deploy several new features weekly. This includes implementation of our system emails, designed to provide helpful and insightful information to reduce any potential pain points; as well as several sub-pages that thoroughly breakdown our services.

Transitioning 1.0 to 2.0 Users
During our Plutus 1.0 release, we attracted a large number of users, and the team has been investigating the best ways of transferring these accounts over to our new and improved Plutus 2.0 applications. The team has identified the most practical approach and will proceed with actioning it.

Marketing Update

Over time, we have acquired a substantial user database through our website and mobile app, we will be utilising our mailing list to raise awareness within our community and organically grow our customer base.

Marketing efforts have been spent improving our multimedia content to raise awareness, as well as encouraging and helping new users with onboarding. Over the course of the next few weeks, the team will be releasing multiple videos and guides for using the Plutus platform. Now that both our Plutus Card and apps are live, the team can promote user-generated content to continue growing our brand awareness organically.

In this interim period, we intend to provide an easy-to-use service and focus on customer service and retention. Our growth strategy for acquiring customers in mass will kick in at a later stage, for now, we intend to look after our current community who has supported us since inception.

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Fact: The world’s richest 26 people own as much as the poorest 50% of the population (3.8 Billion). In 2016, this figure was 61 which shows the widening discrepancy of wealth.

Plutus has developed features that provide a very efficient off-ramp into new-wave financial systems. Our app helps bring financial management into the hands of the consumer.

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Join us on Discord and read the full update on our Medium page.

[David_Plutus]

How To: Navigating the Plutus Dashboard

Our early bird user slots are filling up fast! If you want to get involved & order your own Plutus Debit Card, then follow the instructions in the link below. As soon as you've signed up, you'll get full access to the DEX where you can begin trading ETH and PLU in a secure, decentralised fashion

All that and more! Learn how to get involved here

Want to know a little more about what Plutus has to offer? Watch our first how-to video here

[David_Plutus]

Addressing Community Concerns

With the early bird rollout behind us, the team have decided to turn some of our attention to some of the concerns raised by the community. You can read more below!

Utility
The team has been investigating even further use cases of PLU that can add to its value and better support the longevity of our rewards programme. The team has several unique ideas which we believe have great potential to benefit users in their every day spending. We are currently identifying the best implementation of these and aim to reveal it early next year.

PLU Reward System
Our 2.0 product MVP is now live and we have received some hugely positive feedback from our early adopters. We are giving access to our 9000+ strong waiting list at first before we push forward with our upcoming marketing campaign. The team is utilising this time to iron out any flaws to make this great product scalable and user friendly for the masses. Implementing the PLU rewards system is the next thing on our list of things to release to public. Product first and rewards shortly after is the plan.

Exchanges
As a decentralised service we do not have any direct control over the price or listing of PLU, however, we have been in discussion with top exchanges and progressively conducting due diligence to meet their requirements for compliance and red tapes. We will avoid any services that require unreasonable and detrimental costs to our business model in order to improve volume.

One of our highest priorities is to have PLU listed on third party services so it’s widely accessible by the community, we expect this process to be a lot faster now that we have a live product.

Fees & Limits
We intend to be as transparent as possible with fees, in fact, far more transparent than any competitors. We will be showcasing every fee associated with the company which others refuse to reveal, and we can confidently say that our rates are more than fair. You can check out the current list of fees & limits here

Note: Our Premium service is not yet available

Roadmap
A general road map for 2020 and beyond will be shared by Danial in his EOY blog.

If you'd like to snag yourself early access to Plutus & order your own Plutus Debit Card, then read our Medium article here. Alternatively, you can reach out to myself on Discord here (@DavidPlutus)

[PLUTUSit]

Plutus Monthly Report – Last Ever Monthly Report (December 2019)

Welcome back to our last monthly report, over the last few weeks the team has been onboarding numerous users and distributing slick Plutus Cards across the UK and Europe.
 
Pinned Announcements

- Our community has been granted Early-Bird access to our services.
- Submit your email address to the ‘waiting list’ section of our website and you’ll receive access within 24-48 hours.
- A complete public version of our services will be available to the public once the community is on-boarded. This will be completed in the coming weeks.

General Update

Onboarding Users
Last month, the team released Plutus 2.0 to our cherished community members, and we have received some incredibly supportive and positive feedback. We have been consistently onboarding users every day and proudly acquired hundreds of users. In these early stages while we fine-tune any potential bugs and streamline all processes, our customer service and community manager, David Morrison, and the team have managed to upkeep 100% customer satisfaction in regards to our lean customer support.

Last Monthly Report
Now that we have a fully operational product, the team will be changing our content strategy and moving away from monthly updates. Instead, we will be releasing official announcements and newsworthy posts as they come. Users can stay up to date on the finer details through our various social media channels, most prominently our Discord channel.

Development Update

Android/iOS App Live
Our Plutus app is now fully live on both Android and iOS. Customers can sign up, manage their current account, order a card, and top it up all on-the-go. Since the mobile release, our app has been gradually climbing up the store rankings and achieved high star ratings across both operating systems.

Improving KYC Flow
The team has implemented procedures that will minimise re-checks of documents so users can enjoy an efficient onboarding process; greatly improving conversions from sign-ups to Plutus Card customers.

Mobile App Improvements
The team has made several improvements to our mobile application on both the aesthetics and operational side. We have ironed out the last of the remaining bugs and animated our opening logo on splash page for a more enjoyable user experience.

Additional Developments
The team has also covered countless smaller tasks such as:

- troubleshooting card order flow with our banking provider.
- cleaning up the database of our legacy members in order to transition them to 2.0.
- improving the efficiency of conversions on our DEX platform.

Marketing Update

Emails Campaign
The marketing team has been progressively delivering thousands of emails to our established contacts list that we have acquired over several years in order to onboard as much of our community as possible. The email campaign has seen well-above standard benchmark results and our customer base is quickly growing.

Video Creation
The team has been continually creating video content that can enhance awareness and understanding of our products. Below is one of the recently released videos that showcases our Plutus dashboard; the team has several more prepared behind the scenes that we can release at the appropriate times.

End-of-Year Report
The team is currently working on our end-of-year report that we will release to the public in the coming weeks. This will highlight our achievements over the last 12 months and showcase our vision for the future of Plutus. Stay tuned!

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Fact: According to a PWC research report, 88% of legacy banking organisations fear losing revenue to FinTech companies in areas such as payments and fund transfers. With our product up and running, Plutus plans on disrupting the finance sector through consumer-focused services and never-before-seen features.

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Join us on Discord and read the full update on our Medium page.

[PLUTUSit]

New Feature: 'Suggest a Feature' Box

The team has just implemented a “Suggest a Feature” box into both the web and mobile applications so we can receive constant feedback from the community. This feature gives you the opportunity to request features you would like to see in the future so we can mould our services around your wants and needs. We look forward to hearing your input!

[DEX-Champion]

Hi, I have been away from bitcointalk for sometime as I was doing travelling. I've just gotten chance to use the DEX and must say the metamask feature is quite impressive. Good work plutus team

[David_Plutus]

Hi, I have been away from bitcointalk for sometime as I was doing travelling. I've just gotten chance to use the DEX and must say the metamask feature is quite impressive. Good work plutus team

Awesome to hear you're enjoying the product, DEX-Champion! Don't forget to use the suggest a feature tool in the web dashboard if there's anything else you'd like to see added!

[David_Plutus]

Join Us on Discord & Suggest a Feature

If you have any features to suggest, head over to our discord suggestion bot (or use the suggest a feature functionality in our web dashboard), if you're the first to suggest & your suggestion is selected by the team, we'll give you 20 PLU when it's implemented into the platform.

Moreover, we have a lot of new users, ideas, giveaways and an engaged community, feel free to join us here

[BigMoneyShrapnel]

When exchange for PLU? Other than dex/hitbtc?

[David_Plutus]

When exchange for PLU? Other than dex/hitbtc?

Hey! Our CEO, Danial Daychopan, will likely be addressing this in his end of year report so keep an eye out for that. We'll be sharing it here 

[David_Plutus]

Plutus Partnership & Utility Meeting - Sneak Peek!

Some exciting features are brewing at Plutus!

2020 will be  a fun year for Plutus members and anyone who holds PLU. More on this from Danial coming in the next few days.

[BigMoneyShrapnel]

When exchange for PLU? Other than dex/hitbtc?

Hey! Our CEO, Danial Daychopan, will likely be addressing this in his end of year report so keep an eye out for that. We'll be sharing it here 

Ok, thanks - I'll be looking out for it! Going to order the card this week

[PLUTUSit]

New Exchange Listing - ProBit

One of the largest crypto exchanges in Korea has listed PLU in order to make it more accessible to users, most prominently in Korea followed by the rest of Asia and some of Europe. You can find out more of the details here.

[PLUTUSit]

CEO Message - End of Year Blog

Here is the much-anticipated end-of-year blog post from our CEO, Danial Daychopan, himself. It covers the journey so far and what is to come in years ahead. It also includes some exciting news and updates that many of you have been waiting to hear such as:

- Award nominations
- Product vision
- Pluton token value
- Mainstream partnerships
- Future milestones and more

You can read the full blog post here.

[David_Plutus]

Mobile App Update

The Plutus Mobile App has been updated on both Android & iOS

Take a look at some of the updates here:

-New info to notify you of payee name

-New bottom navigation for withdrawal/statements

-New ‘Suggest a feature’ in Settings tab (so you can express your wishes)

-New animated Plutus logo to splash screen to delight you

-New micro-animation to let you know your Plutus Debit Card is on its way to you so you can keep track of your card progress