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1. What is Rixty?
Rixty is a cash-based alternative payment platform that makes it easy for the 32 million America
youth and 50M adults who lack credit cards to make online entertainment purchases. Users can
convert their cash into online credits for spending at online publishers at 10,000 Coinstar kiosks
and 10,000 prepaid card convenience store locations nationwide. Rixty users spend on average
$30+ per month on the online games, MMO’s and virtual worlds of our publishers through their
Rixty account.
2. What can Rixty do for my users and my business?
Rixty significantly increases overall sales by allowing consumers who do not have or choose not to
use credit cards online. Rixty is the only way today for online publishers to accept both cash and
coins as payment for online offerings.
3. Why should I partner with Rixty?
• Rixty increases revenues. Rixty gives online business a new and differentiated way to get paid.
Rixty facilitates incremental new purchases that would never have happened before. Since Rixty is
100% prepaid using either a prepaid card or Coinstar it doesn’t cannibalize other payment methods likes credit cards or PayPal.
• Rixty is designed for online entertainment providers of all types. Whether you are a major
MMO publisher with a subscription service, or a social network application developer with a
virtual goods model, Rixty has a solution for your unique business model. Rixty supports subscriptions and microtransactions down to $0.10.
• Rixty is simple to integrate. The Rixty API lets you get up and running with Rixty in just a few
lines of code, and there is no upfront cost to integrate or use Rixty. Rixty provides full documentation including a Developers Guide and an Integration Kit that provides sample code bindings for
PHP, Ruby, Java and .NET languages.
4. How is Rixty different from other pre-paid card solutions I may already use?
• Coinstar Relationship - Rixty’s unique relationship with Coinstar gives online publishers an way
to capture a portion of the $3 billion in coins that Coinstar sorts each year. Greater than 60% of all
Coinstar machines also accept cash enabling repeat purchases well after users tap into their jars of
coins.
• Unique Nationwide Distribution Footprint – Rixty currently has more than 20,000 US locations.
Cash users want as short a trip as possible to purchase and Rixty delivers with walk-able locations
all throughout town. Furthermore, a vast majority of Rixty’s grocery and convenience store locations are open extended hours allowing users to purchase at any time of the day or night. The
internet doesn’t sleep and neither does Rixty.
• No fees – Unlike prepaid Visa and Mastercard products, Rixty never charges users fees at point of
sale that are a significant disincentive to purchase. Rixty gives users great value while increasing
publisher revenues.
Learn more at www.rixty.com
[email protected]
101 The Embarcadero, Suite 126 San Francisco, CA 94105
5. In what retail locations can users currently buy Rixty?
Rixty can be used at more than 10,000 Coinstar machines located primarily in grocery stores and
pharmacies. Rixty’s prepaid cards are distributed at more than 10,000 convenience store locations.
Rixty’s convenience store distribution includes top regional chains many of which have 500 or
more stores across multistate areas. To find a Rixty location near you, visit our store locator here:
http://www.rixty.com/locationfinder.
6. What if my company already has a branded prepaid card?
Rixty allows you to augment your existing prepaid options with new and differentiated locations,
including Coinstar. Rixty’s prepaid card retail distribution channel is complementary to, and not
competitive with, publishers’ own prepaid card distribution. Your users want easily accessible
locations to pay and no single US retailer even comes close to Rixty’s nationwide distribution
network in terms of geographic coverage or number of locations.
7. What is the Coinstar partnership all about?
Rixty’s unique relationship with Coinstar allows it to channel some of the $3 billion deposited
annually in more than 10,000 Coinstar coin-counting kiosks to online publishers and retailers.
Users can deposit coins or cash at a Coinstar machine and receive a RixtyCode, which can be used
at any Rixty publisher. The big green Coinstar machines are easy to find at the front of your local
grocery store, while a single prepaid cards is often lost in a sea of different options. Each US
household contains more than $90 in idle coins. Rixty taps into this lucrative funding source in a
way that no other prepaid payment system can today.
8. How much does Rixty cost to use?
Rixty never charges consumers a fee for using its services. Consumers always receive 100% of the
amount they deposit in Coinstar kiosks and the amount they pay for a Rixty prepaid card. Rixty
receives a commission from online publishers for purchases made through a Rixty account. Rixty
costs nothing to integrate and there are no other costs or hidden fees.
9. What other publishers are already using Rixty?
Rixty payments are accepted at more than 100 MMO’s and 100’s of other online games, including:
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Aeria Games
Artix Entertainment (Adventure Quest)
Bigpoint
GameForge
gPotato
IGG
MochiGames
Ndoors (Atlantica Online)
NetDragon (TQ Digital)
NHN.com (ijji.com)
Ntreev
OfferPal (1000’s of games)
OnNet (GamesCampus.com)
Perfect World
Roblox
THQ*ICE
Three Rings (Puzzle Pirates, etc)
Z8Games (G4Box)
Learn more at www.rixty.com
[email protected]
101 The Embarcadero, Suite 126 San Francisco, CA 94105