Amazon payments checkout

[jrb]

In addition to PayPal and Google Checkout, is it possible to integrate the newest Amazonpayments checkout in the Shopping Cart ? I am selling digital downloads and would like to add Amazonpayments. Thank you in advance for your reply.

[epatio]

any news on adding amazon checkout to the cart?

[E-junkie_Ninja]

Currently we do not have any integration with Amazon, and I cannot say if we will.

[dyinglight]

Amazon is doing a big push now with free processing.



Any chance this is going to increase chances of e-junkie supporting it, as Bezos is now trying to take on Paypal?

[E-junkie_Guru]

If we do consider adding support for any new payment processors, Amazon is one of the top candidates on the "want list", but at present we have no specific plans to add any new payment processor checkout options.

[gguerrab]

Hi, any updates on this subject?

[E-junkie_Guru]

Presently we do not have any particular plans to integrate Amazon Payments.



That service is only available to US-based merchants, and we already have a variety of payment options for sellers in the US, so we're devoting our efforts towards new payment processors with broader International scope that can support all of our cart features.



Speaking of which, we do have an exciting new payment processor option in the works presently; that's all I can say about it for now, but stay tuned! :^)

[gsgkenny]

Any other payment processors is a good thing.

[bunkbedking]

Any updates on adding amazon checkout to the cart?



There is a large customer base that would like to use their Amazon account to pay for purchases on our web site

[E-junkie_Guru]

At the moment we have plenty of payment options for US-based sellers, so adding more of the same is relatively lower priority vs. adding payment options with more reach to sellers based outside the US, of which I think we have one very close to being ready (which is all I can say about it for now :^).

[gsgkenny]

I just got an email saying there was a new reply. I hope that email was not just a few months late...

[ellen]

No news on this front, sorry. Another sad sack spammer was posting all over the forum, which triggered the update notification.

[xiataptara]

Hi E-JunkieGuru,



Thanks for the news, I am awaiting for the implement patiently.



It would be really really nice addition because

Amazon Payment use to contribute up to 10% of my revenue when I was using Payloadz. But Payloadz sucks! You guys are way better.

Some people don't like Paypal for whatever reason I have no idea.

The advantage is that A LOT of people already have Amazon account and Amazon is one of the most trusted e-commerce site and some people think it is better to use Amazon to buy rather than risk it with their credit card or Paypal.



Just my two cents.

[bunkbedking]

I agree - we would really like to give our customers an Amazon checkout option

[E-junkie_Monster]

I believe the new payment option that Guru was referring to back in February would be PayPal's PayFlow Pro service: http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/paypal-payflow-pro-shopping-cart.htm



We do appreciate your feedback and we'll take it into consideration, but as Guru said earlier Amazon integration is not a high priority for us right now. We already have plenty of options to service US merchants, so if there are going to be any new payment processors we're going to be looking for services that can offer greater reach to the rest of the world.

[gsgkenny]

xiataptara - Maybe this will give you an idea on why people hate PayPal.

http://www.trustlink.org/Reviews/PayPal-Inc-206039983

[gsgkenny]

How about MoneyBookers?

[E-junkie_Guru]

We are aware of MoneyBookers and will consider them among all the other candidates we're evaluating.



Please understand that adding support for a new payment service is not something that we can do quickly nor easily; indeed, it's one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks we can undertake, so we have to consider whether the benefits of a prospective new payment processor would be broad enough for a wide enough number of merchants to return our considerable "investment" in time and effort required to support it.



Many payment services cannot be integrated well or even at all -- a lesson we learned with a couple payment processors where we eventually had to give up on full cart support and only support them with Buy Now buttons, and somewhat clumsily at that. As such, any new payment services we might evaluate for integration would be those with the broadest international support for merchants based outside the US and with the best prospects for full integration with our cart.

[gsgkenny]

I understand that it could cost thousands just to try and implement a new payment processor. But I guess my question is was it really worth using those resources to implement more versions of PayPal instead of something new? Ideally by adding something like MoneyBookers you hope to attract enough new customers to pay for adding the new service, but does an off branch of something that is already in place do that? Also, it just makes sense to look for a company with global support, but why focus on just what they are right now? Just like e-junkie they are companies looking to expand and earn more as well, so they will probably be looking at getting a more global reach. Then it might be worth it to look at who has the better financial backing and would be able to make that happen. Anyways, Im curious about the statistics of payments processed. Like what percentage does PayPal hold compared to Google Checkout, and what was it a year ago.

[E-junkie_Guru]

We have to consider what benefit a prospective new payment processor can provide to our merchants right now as a tried and proven solution, not take a gamble on what potential benefit they might be able to provide later on.



As for PayPal, they have incentives to make it worth our while, and really most of their new services we're supporting use some combination of the same basic IPN and API specifications that we've already been using for Website Payments Standard and Pro, so it's actually been fairly simple for us to tweak our existing programming in the minor ways necessary to support these new services based on the same technology. Besides which, PayPal dominates the online payments market so completely that we can't reasonably afford to forego supporting their most popular payment solutions.



As to your final question, I can't speak to general usage stats Web-wide offhand, but we can provide a ballpark idea of relative numbers/%-share volume that our own system handles with each processor. Google Checkout is probably PayPal's closest competitor, which handles less than a tenth as many orders through our system as PayPal; Authorize.Net handles about the same as GC in the past year-to-date (but only half as much in the prior year), and each of the others we support handle about another order of magnitude smaller volume with us than that. Comparing the past year-to-date of volume against the year before: PayPal has done slightly larger numbers but about the same overall share in the YTD; GC's down slightly in numbers with a smaller share; Authorize.Net has gained ~50% in their numbers with us and gained slightly in their overall share of our volume in the YTD, so now they're about even with GC in both metrics.