any news on adding amazon checkout to the cart?

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

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?

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.

Hi, any updates on this subject?

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! :^)

Any other payment processors is a good thing.

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

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 :^).

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

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

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.

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

I believe the new payment option that Guru was referring to back in February would be PayPal's PayFlow Pro service: 1http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/paypal-payflow-pro-shopping-cart.htm1



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.

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

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

How about MoneyBookers?

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.

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.

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.

Still believe it will be to all our benefits to add amazon checkout as an option

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/5612

Good luck... I actually contacted a few web design companies today to build me an in house cart. It will cost a lot more than e-junkie, but I have no doubt that adding Amazon Payments and Dwolla will make it well worth it. Even if it doesn't I have had enough of the run around, excuses, and out right ignoring customers. Maybe one day e-junkie will figure out why all the other platforms are booming around them...

I hear what you're saying, and we do pay close attention to what our clients want for new features and functionality. However, knowing what we want and need to do is one thing, marshaling the resources to actually implement it is quite another. Our Development team has their hands full keeping pace with our growth and otherwise working on the new Admin interface, which is the prerequisite milestone that we must complete before any major new features can be introduced.



It may simply be that you have outgrown E-junkie, so we are no longer the right tool for your particular job. We can't be everything to everyone, so we don't try to be. We are deliberately positioned as a simple, basic tool to meet simple, basic needs -- something that do-it-yourself'ers can set up on their own Web sites quickly, easily, and cheaply to meet the most common, essential e-commerce needs with a minimum of technical complication.



There are plenty of competing, full-featured, off-the-shelf e-commerce software packages you could install on your server that would probably meet your needs with little or no modification. We could never compete with them on features, but they cannot compete with our simplicity, cost, reliability, and ease of use. They have their market niche, and we have ours. There's no sense in faulting VW for building a Bug that can't compete with a Lexus or Jeep for luxury or utility; they are entirely different products meeting different needs that don't really compete directly at all, just as we are vis-a-vis other e-commerce solutions.

Just posting to cast another vote for Amazon Checkout, especially if they're international now.



You mentioned that PayPal makes it "worth your while" to include and expand their offerings in E-Junkie. Have you contacted Amazon to see if they offer similar incentives?



BTW, I'm glad to read that you're working on a DHTML interface to replace Flash. The sooner I can live a Flash-free life, the better!

Also another vote for Dwolla - understand it will be difficult for e-junkie to make money from Dwolla, compared to the funds they receive from Paypal - but, I would be willing to pay a higher monthly fee to e-junkie to have Dwolla as an option in the cart (and amazon checkout)

+1 Amazon Checkout



+5 Dwolla

Fairly new to using eJunkie but also would like to add Amazon Checkout.



This is also available in the UK, and I know that I lose business to Amazon. I don't want to list directly on Amazon due to their fees, but would happily pay an extra fee for Amazon Checkout sales.



Would it be worth sending out a survey to eJunkie users, asking if they would be interested, and would pay extra $ per month fees for the benefit?



Or have you already determined that integration would not be possible?



If the latter, it would be nice to know.



Thanks

Any updates on Amazon checkout - ignoring this payment method is losing an opportunity for us all

Right now all our development efforts aside from routine upkeep are focused on completing our new Admin panel; once that's done, we can consider adding new features and functionality, such as new payment processors.

I think it was back in January that



"Right now Development is focusing on the new Seller Admin project"



When will this project be completed?

I feel like I'm stuck in the movie, Groundhog Day.

ExcelHeroI feel like I'm stuck in the movie, Groundhog Day.

Where is the like button? I need to click it five or six times.

We'll admit there have been numerous setbacks, delays, and false starts, but we've been making rapid, daily progress on it for several months now; however, we can't realistically project a target completion date. It will be done when it's actually done, and we'd rather have it done right and well, vs. done poorly just to meet some arbitrary deadline. There's a maxim in development, "Good, Fast, and Cheap: Pick any two." We and our clientele demand it must be Good, and our pricing model means it has to be done Cheap (i.e., with the in-house developers we can afford to hire), so this unfortunately means it cannot be done Fast.



I can confirm I've already built the HTML/CSS for all but a few screens by now, and the experienced new developer we hired this spring is doing the JS/PHP programming necessary to make them actually functional. Initially, we're just going for feature-equivalence with our current Admin, to keep the project scope focused and avoid feature creep that would set things back even further. That said, the new UI architecture makes it readily extensible and flexible in a way the current Flash-based Admin never really was, so once it goes live to replace the current Admin, we'll then be able to start adding new features and functionality with relative ease.

I see that you have now added PayPal advanced as another option.



I understand you generate income from Paypal - but I would be wiling to pay an additional monthly fee for amazon checkout - way more effective than google checkout

PayPal Payments Advanced is really just a remix of PayPal Payflow Pro, at least as far as back-end integration goes. Since we already supported Payflow Pro, it was pretty easy to adjust that to cover Advanced a well, and PayPal pretty much required that we start supporting Advanced checkout as part of our ongoing business partnership.



Our Developers are looking into whether we might be able to support Amazon Payments and/or Dwolla.

any update on amazon checkout?

No specific developments, but we are lately evaluating several new payment processor options (including Amazon Payments) that we might consider supporting to take up the slack when Google Checkout will be scaled back to a digital-goods-only service (rebranded as Google Wallet for Digital Goods) effective Nov. 20th.

This thread started back in August 2008



As we approach the demise of Google Checkout, replacing it with Amazon Checkout would benefit us all.



These carts can provide Amazon Checkout



https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/solutionproviders



I am a huge fan of e-junkie - but 5 years is a long time to wait

no response?