I’ve noticed a flurry of announcements from the Amazon Payments team lately, so decided it was time to go have a nosy around. Here’s my initial impressions from a drive-by visit …
The first thing I noticed about the Amazon Payments website was, “What a lot they got”.  It’s big, it’s complicated, it’s highly confusing, [...]

The story below caught my eye due to a project I’m working on, this month, to shorten and simplify the checkout process over at GazLanNaThai.com
GazLanNaThai.com uses the highly popular osCommerce Online Merchant website software, and unfortunately the checkout flow runs to 6+ pages, therefore I want to condense that to around two or three to [...]

Checkout by Amazon now provides a way for the merchants and integrators to include custom attributes in the order request XML.  These attributes can be associated either with line-items or orders, and will have web-script developers scrambling to be first with their extended add-ons and plug-ins.
“When Amazon Payments receive your order request and it contains [...]

Amazon Payments has published a new best practices guide for Checkout by Amazon.
As we’ve blogged before on BuildaSkill, the amazon checkout product appears to be chasing a slightly different customer set compared to both non-eBay PayPal marketing efforts, and to GoogleCheckout’s target market.  The subtle differences in the product and implementation to both the Amazon [...]

No doubt frustrated by eBay’s intransigence over allowing genuine competition to PayPal on it’s platform, Checkout by Amazon has released an all-new plug-in for the Internet’s most popular shopping cart website application, joining big name Google in doing so.
Amazon Payments has updated and released a new version of Checkout by Amazon for osCommerce plug-in which [...]

Amazon introduces mobile payments with Amazon TextPayMe.
Hot on the heels of a couple of other new payment solutions introduced recently, Amazon have introduced a new mobile phone payments solution. Today I take a quick look at it and compare how it stacks up against Obopay, the other mobile payments solution we have been featuring for [...]

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, [...]