Android and iOS app connects credit unions with on-the-go customers
FRANKLIN, Tenn. July 30, 2013 – Mobile app developer Metova has teamed up with CU Mobile Apps to create a customizable mobile app for credit unions. Available for Android and iOS platforms, the app is not your cookie cutter, white label offering. Rather, credit unions can get a fully custom app designed and built by Metova that uses the credit union’s images, color schemes and content. The first apps will be available in August.
Credit unions can use the app to:
- Keep members informed of events, specials and loan rates
- Send news and updates, push notifications and direct messages to customers
- Provide contact information, maps of branch locations and industry-specific ads for things like new loan rates
- Build custom forms to request feedback from users for surveys and more
- Allow customers to deposit checks remotely by using their phone’s camera to take a picture of the check
In the future, Metova and CU Mobile Apps plan to add mobile banking optimization for credit unions that have desktop banking sites.
“Metova’s years of mobile app experience and great team of developers made them the perfect development partner for CU Mobile Apps,” said Rick Hargis, managing partner of Member Service Solutions, LLC, the creator of CU Mobile Apps. “The partnership provides stability for the future and the ability to grow the platform and stay in front of mobile technology. We don’t know where technology is going to be in five years, but with Metova as our partner we know we will be able to continue to provide the best mobile banking apps to credit unions.”
“Security and the ability to manage finances are essential app features for credit unions, and these are aspects we’ve paid special attention to during development,” said Dave Lane, vice president of technology for Metova. “We’ve also given credit unions the ability to update information without requiring users to manually update their app, which allows them to add content or news without any end user intervention. It is very important to credit unions that their app is always up to date, and we are happy to provide that capability. We are looking forward to continuing to customize and add new features to the credit union apps.”
Metova and CU Mobile Apps hope to have apps developed for 100 credit unions by the end of the year. Metova’s developer team, which includes approximately 30 developers, will be available for support on all of the credit union apps.
The apps are available in the Google Play Android Store, Apple’s App Store and the Amazon App Store for Kindle.
Metova is a technology company made up of Metova and Metova Federal. Metova develops custom mobile applications for Web, smartphone and tablet platforms, including Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. John Adams serves as CEO and Dave McAllister serves as president. The Metova brand employs more than 85 people in four cities: Franklin, Tenn. (Metova’s headquarters), Cabot, Ark., Augusta, Ga. and Washington D.C. You can find Metova on Facebook at Facebook.com/Metova, LinkedIn at LinkedIn.com/Company/Metova-Inc., Twitter at Twitter.com/Metova, or on the Web at Metova.com.
CU Mobile Apps is the latest product available from Member Service Solutions, LLC, the respected provider of insurance and financial solutions for credit unions. CU Mobile Apps exists because credit union clients asked Member Service Solutions for a better way to provide members with mobile banking apps. Our revolutionary new technology allows credit unions to take their own custom smartphone app operational in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost. Flexible enough to serve credit unions of any size, the tailor-made CU Mobile Apps product can be tried at absolutely no risk, with no contractual obligation. Learn more at http://CUMobileApps.com.
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