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Amazon expands their payment system to compete with PayPal - It's Official

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Official announcement, it's in beta: http://www.amazon.co...342430011&no=3435361

And long official blog discussion of it:
http://aws.typepad.c...pay-me-now-or-p.html

Some relevant text:
Developers are free to set up an unlimited number of payment instructions. This makes it possible, for example, to have a different set of payment instructions for each counterparty with which you do business.

Developers can create payment instructions that are as simple or complex as they desire.  For example, creating a relatively complex business model around micro-payments is easy to do with Amazon FPS. Our aggregation feature lets you track and aggregate micro-payments into a single payment transaction, saving on transaction processing costs and avoiding having to build complex ledger functionality into your own applications.  Without this capability micro-payments would be difficult or cost-prohibitive.

Micro-Payments Support: With Amazon FPS you can track and aggregate micro-payments (e.g. payments less than $0.50 or even $0.01) into a single payment transaction and can charge the customer before (prepaid) or after (postpaid) the service is provided. This features lets you minimize transaction processing costs and avoid having to build complex ledger functionality into your applications.

Aggregate micro-transactions into a single larger transaction using Prepaid and Postpaid capabilities.


It looks like they copied paypal for the most common datapoint (2.9% plus 30 cents).
but they added more friendly micro-payment rates for < $10 payments, which is somewhat exciting.

Commissions they take from a $2 payment break down like this:
Amazon = 10 cents + 5 cents = $0.15
Paypal = 30 cents + 5.8 cents = $0.36

I'm getting a bit excited about this new service since Amazon.com has always felt to me like they are serious about their web services, and interested in building things right, and they seem particularly interested in supporting micro-donation and non-traditional payment stuff.

Where googlecheckout has seemed uninspired and like just another half-hearted google attempt to find people to send ads to, amazon looks serious and trustworthy.

-mouser


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