Author: Roder van Arkel

Cyclos is now also used by a barter community in Greece. The story made it to both the printed and online versions of the New York Times.

The Brixton pound is now using Cyclos for Web access and SMS banking. Here is a short video of somebody making a payment using SMS at a market.

We have put a site with the SMS simulation. It works with users from the Cyclos demo site. The site can be found at the page Cyclos / SMS simulator and there is a link at the login page of the demo site as well.   Technically seen the SMS simulation page is a 'real' […]

An article/interview about Cyclos / STRO has been published at the website 'Mobile Money Africa' (http://mobilemoneyafrica.com) The article will also be published in the next e-magazine of mobilemoneyafrica which has over half a million subscribers.

The STRO (Social TRade Organization) group is working on a open source mobile banking platform that can offer a wide range of financial services such as (micro) payments, installments, checking balances, monitoring transactions, micro finance handling, remittance handling and payment of both salaries and bills. The transaction processing system is designed to handle businesses-to-business (B2B) […]

Over the last months there is a strong growth in the interest of Cyclos. The project site gets more hits, we receive much e-mail and the amount of downloads has been growing sharply (see picture). The financial crisis might have a role in that, but surely also the publishing of the beta release of Cyclos3.5.

The Cyclos 3.0 version is now stable with the release version 3.0.9. We will keep on supporting and debugging Cyclos 3.0 and meanwhile we are working on the coming ‘mile stone’ release with the version number Cyclos 3.5 Our approach will be to release mayor (milestone) releases every 4 to 6 months and intermediate updates […]

The Cyclos documentation wiki has been published online at https://testsite.cyclos.org/wiki/. The objective is to centralize all technical documentation.

Thomas Wittich and Mich Wyser will give a Cyclos demonstration at the OpenExpo conference in Zurich (24-25 Sept). A special demo version of Cyclos has been created for this event. The demo version is a complete installation (in German). Cyclos: OpenExpo-Report (Thomas Sam Wittich) CH-Winterthur, 24.-25.09.2008 The software exposition OpenExpo took place in Winterthur from […]

Cyclos3.6 supports card and POS management and communication with POS (Point Of Sale) devices. The Card payment module allows the following operations: Consumer-to-business payments (POS at shops, restaurants / other businesses) Business operations (balance retrieval, transaction history, notifications/alerts, print daily transations list) Cash point operations (cash-in / cash-out) The design will offer a secure, telco/bank […]