New Amazon Payments Blog & Website

By Ed | December 30th, 2008 | Category: Amazon Payments | No Comments »

Amazon.com’s Payments Team has launched a new blog – the Amazon Payments Blog.

Baris Cetinok of the team writes

“Our team will post here on this blog on a regular basis – our goal is to share with you the latest news, thoughts, ideas, and inspirations about Amazon Payments. … We will share stories of consumers, merchants, and developers using Amazon Payments to pay or to get paid.”

Some of the topics covered since the blog launched include -

Checkout by Amazon now enables you, our merchants, to up-sell your products within its checkout pipeline. At your option, you can also use the up-sell feature to offer products sold through Amazon.com during checkout and earn up to 8.5% in Amazon.com Associate referral fees. You can either up-sell your own products or Amazon.com products or both.

Checkout by Amazon™ can identify Amazon.com customers shopping on your website (before they login), and offer them the 1-Click® experience. When customers use their 1-Click® settings, they complete their purchase instantly and without leaving your website.

Let’s hope that the blog doesn’t become completely USA-centric and forget about users and customers in other marketplaces. In other words, if the blog is for the entire marketplace, add posts about services available to those other marketplaces, and not just services (and links) only available for North American Amazonians.

The new Amazon Payments website (link above) is a crisp new addition (sometime this year) and I can only hope that the UK and other marketplaces get their own localised versions soon. Just as i also hope that Amazon open themselves up to expatriate and non-core marketplaces sellers too. Heck, I’d even agree to exclusively shipping through Fulfillment by Amazon if only they’d let me open a 3rd -party seller account.