Amazon.com has extended its Amazon "1-Click" check out experience to mobile devices. Amazon Payments announced on Monday the availability of the Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS), providing developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications an easy way to process payments from mobile devices and extend Amazon's 1-Click checkout experience to their customers. Amazon MPS enables tens of millions of Amazon customers to use the existing payment and shipping information in their Amazon.com accounts to make purchases from their mobile devices.

Amazon MPS is built on the same Amazon Payments infrastructure that many developers and businesses are currently using for their PC-based checkout experience. Through a set of APIs and an optimized mobile browser experience, developers and merchants can easily extend single or multi-use payment options to their customers. Developers and merchants who already offer Amazon Payments on their website can easily add the new mobile payment option for their customers without any additional backend technology development.

Howard Gefen, Director of Amazon Mobile Payments, said "Amazon customers can now also make purchases on third party sites without needing to set up separate payment accounts - they simply use the payment information in their existing Amazon accounts."

Amazon Payments was an official sponsor of the 2009 Shop.org Annual Summit last month, where mobile commerce was the talk of the conference.

http://amazonpayments.com/mps