Small businesses, big problems, easy solutions.




I recently helped a local non-profit Al-Salam Foundation with their fundraising efforts. 

Al-Salam is a small organization led and managed by a small group of folks. These folks are business owners, physicians and professional in other areas. Running AL-Slam is a part time thing for them with little time to spend and spare. Their focus has been growing the organization in Carmel community through civic engagements. They've had little time to research and implement right techs and tools to enhance and compliment their efforts.

Such is the the situation in most small non-profits; especially religious institutions.

Two immediate needs jumped out: 
1.     Ability to accept credit cards from small donors.
o    Onetime donation with ability to receive receipts
o    Recurring donations that just works
o    Ability to charge credit cards; POS style.
2.     Ability to establish a phone solution that works for their needs
o    Receive/Handle calls by an Auto Attendant. 
o    Text "Give" or "Donate”, or other keywords get the right answer. 
o    Change VoiceMails by designated admins with options to use recorded
o    Integrated Voice Response: “Press 1 for upcoming events”, “2 to Donate”, “3 to Leave a message”, and so forth.

And some more!
Took on the challenge of getting these good folks a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) using a few awesome cloud services.
Here are some screenshots of these solutions in action:

Virtual phone that accepts inbound keywords from members and delivers configurable messages. 


Send a keyword. Get a response. Twilio API + ASP.NET Web hook


Donation page on mobile

Donation Page on iPhone. Responsive design with Bootstrap.


Admin area where designated users can change how incoming calls will be handled.
MVC Web hook+ SQL Server + Twilio/Alexa Voices to Text-to-speech + An awesome Audio/Video streaming API


Voicemail left by caller. Email goes out to group of folks.
Listen to the message


Admin area: See the text messages sent.


Admin area - see inbound calls made







Payment Kiosk inside a mosque.

Rotating screen. Purely web. MVC + Bootstrap + SQL Server 


Payment screen. Hooked to MVC + SQL Server + Stripe API . Just works!


Sure has been a lot of fun putting these in action.


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