Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments

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Post by songism » Fri, May 29, 2009, 9:37 AM UTC

Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments
payments.amazon.com

Re: Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments

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Post by adamhowell » Fri, May 29, 2009, 11:59 AM UTC

Is there a service -- similar to what Clickpass does for logins -- that uses all of the consumer payment gateways that are out there (Paypal, Goog Checkout, Amazon, Revolution Money, etc.) to give the user an easy choice at checkout of how to pay for something?

I guess kinda like E-junkie but w/ more options. I'm sure there is -- and if not I definitely think there should be.

Re: Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments

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Post by schtono » Fri, May 29, 2009, 1:04 PM UTC

This is great news, but it would be even better if amazon dared to start their service in Europe as well.

So far, there is no "real" competition to paypal for small developer sheds. In fact, I am sooo p about it, that I think I'm going to start a payments service myself! Anyone come and join me?

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Post by listic » Fri, May 29, 2009, 1:29 PM UTC

schtono wrote: post #3

This is great news, but it would be even better if amazon dared to start their service in Europe as well. So far, there is no "real" competition to paypal for small developer sheds. In fact, I am sooo p about it, that I think I'm going to start a payments service myself! Anyone come and join me?

Can't you use moneybookers instead?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 29, 2009, 2:11 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #4

schtono wrote: post #3

This is great news, but it would be even better if amazon dared to start their service in Europe as well. So far, there is no "real" competition to paypal for small developer sheds. In fact, I am sooo p about it, that I think I'm going to start a payments service myself! Anyone come and join me?

Can't you use moneybookers instead?

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Post by schtono » Fri, May 29, 2009, 2:11 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #4

schtono wrote: post #3

This is great news, but it would be even better if amazon dared to start their service in Europe as well. So far, there is no "real" competition to paypal for small developer sheds. In fact, I am sooo p about it, that I think I'm going to start a payments service myself! Anyone come and join me?

Can't you use moneybookers instead?

I should elaborate :)

There is afaik no service, that offers a nice and easy payment integration for small e-commerce websites. Of course you can get all the heavyweight stuff with merchant accounts and so on. But if you're a small garage-shop which wants to accept credit card payments, there is no alternative to paypal (at least in germany).

I think there's no need to mention here how much the payment process of paypal sucks anyways, as it has been discussed here already extensively.

Within my own little company, I've estimated that we loose about 30% of our customers in the last phase of checking out, where people are on behalf of paypals website. As far as i've seen, amazon does a much better job here.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think you dont even have to open an account with pasword and stuff to checkout using ur credit card?

Re: Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments

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Post by qeorge » Fri, May 29, 2009, 2:38 PM UTC

schtono wrote: post #6

listic wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't you use moneybookers instead?

I should elaborate :) There is afaik no service, that offers a nice and easy payment integration for small e-commerce websites. Of course you can get all the heavyweight stuff with merchant accounts and so on. But if you're a small garage-shop which wants to accept credit card payments, there is no alternative to paypal (at least in germany). I think there's no need to mention here how much the payment process of pay…

You can let customers pay with a credit card while using PayPal as your gateway. If you're willing to pay the $30/month and setup SSL you can take CC payments on your page using the PayPal gateway, with no account needed by your customers.

PayPal still sucks, but if you're losing a lot of sales to the PayPal signup this might be a quick fix. I should be able to dredge up some PHP code if that would help you out.

But I hope Amazon Payments comes to Europe soon. Its silly to have so little competition in such a high-demand field.

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Post by lecha » Fri, May 29, 2009, 2:50 PM UTC

Can anyone comment on why Amazon Payments still not available outside of US?

Amazon.com operates and accepts payments in EU and Canada. AWS is available in EU. Payments service is available for close to two years. There must be something some other answer than "it just takes time".

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Post by aristus » Fri, May 29, 2009, 2:55 PM UTC

lecha wrote: post #8

Can anyone comment on why Amazon Payments still not available outside of US? Amazon.com operates and accepts payments in EU and Canada. AWS is available in EU. Payments service is available for close to two years. There must be something some other answer than "it just takes time".

At Archivd we accept payments from the EU via FPS. Do you mean that non-US businesses cannot sign up for Amazon Payments?

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Post by MicahWedemeyer » Fri, May 29, 2009, 3:56 PM UTC

For the record, Amazon FPS has supported recurring payments for a while now. We've been using them on Obsidian Portal for over a year.

What's new is that they've made it slightly easier to integrate with an existing site. This is good news, as the full power of FPS is an awesome and frightening thing to behold.