Electronic payment online [Archives:2002/39/Last Page]

Within the framework of the strategic vision of the 2001-20025 development plans of Yemen Post in enhancing postal services in Yemen, it has launched the new electronic payment services on the Internet (e-rial, e-post).
The project links all postal offices in one network and provides technologically advanced services including the electronic rial, accounts, plus a variety of services offered to private and public sectors and to the whole society.
The total cost of the project was USD 244,000 used to set up eight Internet Protocol (IP) addresses including a website for the electronic rial (www.e-rial.post.ye), a website for electronic stamps (www.e-stamps.post.ye), a site for payment of electricity, water, and telephone bills (www.e-stamps.post.ye), and one for postal money transfers through the Internet (www.e-rial.post.ye/moneyorder)
The e-rial service is considered a step towards establishing the e-city and e-government. It resulted from the government’s realization of the need to cope with the information revolution taking place all over the world. The Ministry of Communications has started implementing the National Program for Information Technology as a step towards achieving a complete IT infrastructure for all vital sectors. The e-rial service used for payment of electricity, water, communication, and private companies’ bills will result in savings expenses spent on labor and will provide a more efficient, convenient, and reliable payment method.
The e-rial service is an intermediate system between the user and the service-oriented establishments, enabling the user to use the service with ease and comfort of his home.
The service has the advantage of secure transactions that enable the use of credit for payment of different services through answering specific questions that ensure the use by privileged persons only.
The convenience of this service lies in its ability to have customers pay any time of the day and any day of the week as it enables the use of YR 2,000, 5,000, and 15,000 pre-defined electronic bills in the form of cards to be used by the customer. Those cards can be purchased easily and used at the website through an assigned password.
This service is currently being used by a number of establishments that prefer the usage of technologically advanced payment methods online. Contracts have been signed between those establishments and Yemen Post.

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