Mercedes-Benz Financial App Expands to Smartphones

Following the great amount of success registered by its latest iPhone App, Mercedes-Benz announced it is expanding the features to customers using smartphones like BlackBerry, Droid and other mobile devices with Internet capability. The new feature will also be supported by the marketing campaign titled "The coolest way to pay," launched in October 2009.

As with iPhones, users will be able to to make payments, view their account summary and request payoff information through the new app.

To do so, account holders must first register online here to access secure account management features. Detailed instructions for smartphone users are available at the following link.

With the help of the new application, all smartphone users, even those who are not customers of Mercedes-Benz Financial, will be able to locate the nearest Mercedes-Benz authorized dealer, contact a customer service representative and see what’s new from Mercedes-Benz Financial.

Customers won't have to worry on the security of their private data, as the company says that it uses secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect customer information during transmission.

“We are closing in on 10,000 downloads of our iPhone App which validates our decision to expand our mobile capabilities to all customers who are smartphone users,” said Andreas Hinrichs, Vice President of Marketing for Mercedes-Benz Financial. “By expanding our mobile services to smartphone users, more of our customers will enjoy the conveniences of connecting with us from the palm of their hand.”