Amazon Payments launched a promotion for online merchants and announced integration with leading shopping cart and ecommerce solution providers. More than 25 providers, including CardinalCommerce, Miva Merchant, Magento, ShopVisible, Mercantec and Zoovy, will be supporting Amazon Payments as part of their offerings.
Amazon Payments also announced a free payment-processing promotion through September 30, 2009, to businesses and organizations that begin accepting Amazon Payments using Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay on or after April 29, 2009.
In related news, Convio, a software and services provider to the nonprofit community, is integrating Amazon Payments into its fundraising platform to enable its client base to accept alternate payment methods for online donations. Plug-ins for widely-used open source ecommerce platforms, such as osCommerce and ZenCart, are also now available for quick and easy integration with Amazon Payments.
Checkout by Amazon is a complete ecommerce checkout solution suited best for websites selling physical goods and includes support for tax, shipping, and promotion functionality along with post order management support. It offers customers access to their Amazon.com address book and payment information to buy quickly and easily, and also transact using Amazon's 1-Click ordering.
Amazon Simple Pay is the best choice for websites selling digital goods, offering subscriptions or services, or accepting donations. It allows customers to use payment information from their Amazon.com accounts without the need to re-enter the information.
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Amazon Payments launched a promotion for online merchants and announced integration with leading shopping cart and ecommerce solution providers. More than 25 providers, including CardinalCommerce, Miva Merchant, Magento, ShopVisible, Mercantec and Zoovy, will be supporting Amazon Payments as part of their offerings. 