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Amazon Pay
Type of businessSubsidiary
Available inEnglish
Founded2007
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington United States
ParentAmazon
URLpay.amazon.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationFree
Current statusActive

Amazon Pay is an online payments processing service owned by Amazon. Launched in 2007,[1] Amazon Pay uses the consumer base of Amazon.com and focuses on giving users the option to pay with their Amazon accounts on external merchant websites. As of March 2021, the service became available in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Amazon Pay announced a partnership with Worldpay in 2019, allowing Worldpay clients to enable Amazon Pay as a part of the same integration.[2][3][4]

Products

Amazon Pay incorporates a variety of products for buyers and merchants to process online payments.

Amazon Pay

Amazon Pay provides the option to purchase goods and services from websites and mobile apps using the addresses and payment methods stored in the Amazon account, such as credit cards or a direct debit bank account or the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in India.[5]

Amazon Pay Express

Amazon Pay Express is a payments processing service for simple e-commerce use cases on websites. It is built on Amazon Pay but without requiring a full e-commerce integration,[6] it can be used to create a button that can be copied and pasted onto a website or added via a WordPress plug-in.[7] It is best suited for merchants selling a small number of products with a single item in each order, such as a digital download.

Evolution

Checkout by Amazon (CBA)

Checkout by Amazon (CBA) was an e-commerce solution that allowed web merchants to accept Amazon account information and use Amazon for payment processing. CBA could manage several aspects of the transaction, including order processing, promotional discounts, shipping rates, sales tax calculation, and up-selling. Depending on the merchant's needs, CBA could be integrated into the merchant's systems with manual processing (through Seller Central) or through SOAP APIs or downloadable CSV files. CBA also claimed to reduce the bad debt because of Amazon's fraud detection capabilities. CBA was discontinued in the UK and Germany in 2016 and in the US in April 2017.[8]

Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS)

Flexible Payments Service (FPS) was an Amazon Web Service that allowed money transfer between two entities using a technology built on single, multiple, and unlimited use payment tokens. Merchants managed their service use via API or solution providers. They accessed the account through a merchant account on the Amazon Payments website. The service was launched as a limited beta in August 2007 and, later in February 2009, was promoted to General Availability.[citation needed] FPS differed from CBA because FPS did not handle additional capabilities associated with order processing, such as promotions, tax, and shipping. FPS also provided the payments processing for the Amazon Web Services DevPay service but was discontinued in June 2015.[9][citation needed]

GoPago technology acquisition

In 2013 Amazon acquired GoPago's technology (mPayment) and hired their engineering and product teams.[10] Amazon was interested in the mobile payment business. GoPago's app allows shoppers to order and pay for goods and services before arriving at a company.

Pay with Alexa

In 2020, Amazon enabled Alexa users to pay for gas by talking to Alexa.[11]

Security

On September 22, 2010, Amazon published a security advisory [12] regarding a security flaw in its Amazon Payments SDKs. This flaw allows a shopper to shop for free in web stores using those SDKs. Amazon mandated all web stores to upgrade to its new SDKs before November 1, 2010. Amazon acknowledged security researcher Rui Wang for finding this bug. The detail of the flaw is documented in the paper "How to Shop for Free Online - Security Analysis of Cashier-as-a-Service Based Web Stores" by Rui Wang, Shuo Chen, XiaoFeng Wang, and Shaz Qadeer.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Launched in 2007". August 3, 2007. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  2. ^ "Amazon Pay inks Worldpay integration as it branches out in the wider world of e-commerce". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  3. ^ "Amazon, Worldpay Team On One-Click Commerce". PYMNTS.com. 2019-03-20. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  4. ^ Berthene, April (2019-03-25). "Amazon Pay is now an option for Worldpay clients". Digital Commerce 360. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  5. ^ Mishra, Digbijay (11 June 2020). "Unified Payments Interface: US majors dominate payments play on UPI | India Business News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  6. ^ "E-commerce integration".
  7. ^ "WordPress Plug-In".
  8. ^ "Amazon Is Making a Big Change--and It Will Heavily Impact Your E-Commerce Site". Inc. magazine. November 29, 2016.
  9. ^ "Make Money Fast – Introducing Amazon DevPay". Amazon Web Services. 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  10. ^ "Amazon Bought GoPago's Mobile Payment Tech And Product/Engineering Team, DoubleBeam Bought The POS Business". TechCrunch.
  11. ^ Hanna, M. "Amazon Alexa Pay my gas". Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  12. ^ "Amazon Payments Signature Version 2 Validation". 2010-09-22.
  13. ^ Rui Wang; Shuo Chen; XiaoFeng Wang; Shaz Qadeer. "How to Shop for Free Online - Security Analysis of Cashier-as-a-Service Based Web Stores".
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