Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

Post by timboslice » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

Post by benologist » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 6:57 PM UTC

timboslice wrote: post #2

TL;DR: For developers building web applications on Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop, supporting payments is easy with Mozilla’s fxpay library. In addition to accepting credit cards, it also supports billing to a cell phone #

Post by philbo » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 8:01 PM UTC

neil_s wrote: post #3

Anything special about Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop apps that prevents the use of companies whose full-time business model is payments processing? Or is the special thing about fxpay the ability to pay with your phone bill?

Post by kumar303 » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

swift wrote: post #5

benologist wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Firefox Desktop the web browser on pc etc and does that mean ordinary websites can bill to cell phones etc through this?

Firefox Desktop is indeed the web browser on PC. It sounds to me like you can definitely use fxpay to bill to credit cards on desktop. I'm not sure about the cell phone bill thing, though.

Post by digi_owl » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 10:42 PM UTC

kumar303 wrote: post #7

neil_s wrote: post #3

Anything special about Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop apps that prevents the use of companies whose full-time business model is payments processing? Or is the special thing about fxpay the ability to pay with your phone bill?

The main reason Mozilla built a payments service and offered a custom library for developers vs. recommending Stripe (etc.) is because no one supported the direct operator billing we needed in our Firefox OS launch countries with a developer friendly interface.