PayDock Announces Partnership with ECAL to Bring Consumer Payments In-Calendar

London, UK / Melbourne, Australia: Payments orchestration platform PayDock has announced a multi-year exclusive agreement with ECAL, a leading calendar communications platform to offer seamless calendar-driven payment solutions. Currently relied on by 3m+ monthly active users, ECAL is a preferred pipeline for time-sensitive, actionable communications between brands and consumers. PayDock’s capabilities as a mature payments orchestration platform provide a strong foundation for ECAL’s payments roll-out during 2020.

Patrick Barrett Founder and CEO at ECAL

“Today, the calendar sits squarely at the forefront of the merchant-consumer relationship. Our success in driving consumer action and response from right-time communications will be elevated via seamless in-calendar payment capabilities. ECAL Pay powered by PayDock will offer consumers a simple, direct and timely way to pay bills, support charities or buy tickets to their favourite events instantly, and without leaving their preferred personal time-management platform. Merchants similarly benefit from improved cashflow, reduced costs and greater transparency within their customer relationships.”

Rob Lincolne Founder and CEO at PayDock

“Our mission at PayDock has always been to stand behind businesses that transform the merchant-consumer relationship. ECAL is at the forefront of value-added brand engagement. We are highly excited along with Pat and the team at ECAL to assist merchants in the dramatic enhancement of customer experiences through the provision of timely, actionable and efficient payment capabilities. Offering ECAL capabilities as part of the PayDock services ecosystem ‘out of the box’ will enhance the value our payment service providers, merchants and consumers receive from each other.”

PayDock is a payments orchestration platform serving an international merchant base and over 30 payment service providers globally. PayDock makes it easy for businesses to rapidly harmonise and deploy payment ecosystems for increased value.

ECAL is a world-leading calendar communications and marketing platform, used by hundreds of major brands globally in sports, ticketing, media and now payments. ECAL’s ‘sync to calendar’ technology enables smart, dynamic, event-based communications straight to calendar, for better business outcomes. Clients include Premier League, NBA, LaLiga, Formula E, AFL, NRL, MYOB, and Ticketek to name a few.