January 25, 2007
Temple donations via SMS
Airtel, India's leading mobile service, has launched a new service, which allows customers to make their donations to temples via SMS. Star of Mysore Online reports.
"The new service called Temple Offering is aimed at providing a convenient way for customers to pay their respects to their deity by making monetary offerings, from anywhere, by mobile phone.
SMS offerings can presently be made to four temples — Mantralaya (AP), Siddi Vinayak (Mumbai), Dharmasthala (Karnataka) andJalaram Temple (Bangalore). The service will be soon extended to Thirupathi, Shirdi Saibaba, Vaishnodevi and Mahalakshmi temple.
... As soon as the SMS is sent, it gets updated immediately in the temple record through a software deployed at the temple's premises, which will record the amount donated, time, date and the number from which it has been made.
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