In preparation for the cradless pay launch, we are announcing a developer contest.  The contest is aimed at innovative use of our Add To Wallet API,

so that consumers can carry confirmations, memberships, tickets or any thing that they typically carry in their wallet on their smart phone.

Applications will purely be judged by the use of this free to use API. Participation in other services provided by cradles pay is not required.

Prizes:

First Prize: $4000

Second prize: $2000

8 Third Prizes:  8 google Nexus one Phones.

Eligibility: Developers can participate from any part of the world.

The target audience of your application/website is limited to US audience only. Contests for other countries might be announced at  a later date.

Dates:

Idea submission: End date: March 1st 2010.

Application submission: End Date: May 1st  2010.

App Live Date:  June 1st 2010.

Call Count Period: June 2010 to Aug 2010.

Winners will be announced on Sep 1st.

Judging criteria:

Top 10 applications that made most calls to the add to wallet API . Uniqueness of the calls will be verified by wallet key and date.

All online real time applications/websites are eligible to participate.

Batch calls/Jobs are allowed, if the request is in response to a customer activities on your app/web site. But application approval for this might take time.

Examples:

Ticketing applications.

Membership  applications.

Loyalty applications.

Purchase confirmations for pickup.