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By: Ask The Admin » Blog Archive » Amazon challenges PayPal and Google Checkout. Is this going to be the war of Goliath vs. Goliath vs. Goliath?

Sun, 18 May 2008 21:45:43 +0000

[...] Arrington of Tech Crunch writes:“Look for a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service [...]

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Amie Street Closes Series A Financing Led By Amazon.com — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:13:31 +0000

[...] doubt, Amazon’s recent payments system seems an ideal fit for the site as [...]

By: Bryan Johnson

Bryan Johnson — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:43:46 +0000

I agree that Amazon has a better fit with a payment service offering. Google’s offering not only fell short of matching PayPal and didn’t even really fill a pressing need for merchants. I think the rationale on Google’s side was that at the time PayPal’s offering was fairly limited to ebay, person to person, etc. and less as an additional alternative payment type for merchants. Google saw the opening and hastily threw themselves into the game trying to buy share. Ebay CEO Meg Whitman recently gloated over their trouncing of Google Checkout. I don’t think that consumers will want to maintain more than one payment service for general web use and so in this regards PayPal has a great head start. But to date usage has been driven by consumer demand and not by merchant acceptance. I might look for this to change as Amazons rates are better than PayPal’s for small dollar ACH tickets.

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Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:40:58 +0000

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In Anchor » SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 1, 2007 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:26:39 +0000

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By: Payments Watch

Payments Watch — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:56:25 +0000

New Amazon Payments Service…

Techcrunch is predicting a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments. If you had been following payments and IT related internet job boards, you may have been able to see this coming….

By: Matthias

Matthias — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:05:40 +0000

@bdb: Sure there are many companies offering credit card based services (Obopay, ePassporte, 3V,…).

I simply believe that offering this kind of functionality will be the key to universal acceptance of Internet payment services. Not offering such functionality substantially reduces an IPS’ merchant coverage (and therefore it’s value for consumers) - as seen with Google Checkout.

By: NexGen Technology Blog » Buxfer Adds Payments; Now Perfect For Settling Your Bar Tab

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:35:48 +0000

[...] system. The payment system is supported through Amazon’s new Flexible Payments web service we reported on earlier. Buxfer is one of the first companies on the service’s private beta along with [...]

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Buxfer Adds Payments; Now Perfect For Settling Your Bar Tab | Tekjuice.com — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:45:45 +0000

By: Amazon Flexible Payments Service Launches | Tekjuice.com

Amazon Flexible Payments Service Launches | Tekjuice.com — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:30:04 +0000

[...] As predicted, Amazon launched a new payments web service today called Amazon Flexible Payments Service, or FPS. It will compete with Paypal and Google Checkout. [...]

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:55:53 +0000

Thanks from this information!

Marcelo

By: ChannelAdvisor Blog » Amazon Payments Launched

ChannelAdvisor Blog » Amazon Payments Launched — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:49:54 +0000

[...] is not so much a consumer payment solution with heavy marketing but more a payment platform that can be used by developers to build payment [...]

By: Prashant

Prashant — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:47:37 +0000

I read about a new, direct Paypal competitor called Pmints launching this fall. They’re based in Virginia and keying in on alternative merchants. http://www.pmints.com

By: James Byers

James Byers — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:43:22 +0000

I agree with nexusprime. FPS looks like it offers great flexibility in how payments are structured, but mandates that transactions flow through the “cobranded UI pipeline”:

http://developer.amazonwebserv.....p;tstart=0

With that restriction, it’s an incremental improvement at best from PayPal and Google Checkout.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:28:20 +0000

Hey, Aaron from FreshBooks here. Just wanted to pop my head in and point to our blog post on our integration efforts with Amazon FPS so far. We’re definitely a unique case, in that we’re a Canadian company integrating with a U.S.-only service, but with about 60% of our users down in the States it’s absolutely worth it to provide this service to them.

It’s been an interesting experience so far! Our insights, and a little technical info, can be found here:

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog.....t-service/

I think this thing’s going to be big. Regardless of whether PayPal or Google Checkout are true competitors, this is clearly an attempt to take on both of them. It looks to be a very strong effort, too.

By: Freshbooks helps Amazon take on PayPal » mathewingram.com/work

Freshbooks helps Amazon take on PayPal » mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:01:17 +0000

[...] payment service (which Mike Arrington broke the news of here) looks to me like something that has the potential to become a real competitor to PayPal, a service [...]

By: Mashable! » Blog Archive » Amazon Launches Payments Service to Rival PayPal

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:17:06 +0000

[...] tonight the launch of another web service that should appeal to developers. The previously rumored Flexible Payments Service provides everything developers need to set up payments on their sites, [...]

By: Don Taggart

Don Taggart — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:34:08 +0000

It truns out the service is more fundamental than you thought: it allows otehr developers to build paypal and checkout. And it includes micropayments. See Amazon CTO’s weblog

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By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:44:44 +0000

So Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) has arrived. I think it looks great. I’m a big fan and user of S3. Cost effective and reliable. I only hope they roll out extended international support for FPS (bank transfers, remove extra 1% transaction fee, allow GBP and Euro). Another addition could be quickstart versions of their services for small business, because it really does take a developer to get their head around these services.

By: nexusprime

nexusprime — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:44:26 +0000

Call me when any of the three (PayPal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments) offer support for the *API* to charge a credit card in any country (e.g. stay on merchant website, call WS API to charge card).

Support for that is spotty at best, and at any level greater than niche, supporting international customers is important.

By: beyond work

beyond work — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:37:55 +0000

http://beyondwork.wordpress.co.....t-service/

By: Maxthimus

Maxthimus — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:21:23 +0000

(typos corrected)

Looks like they are out.
aws.amazon.com.

Seems to be pretty powerful than what the story mentions.
Cool. Good competition.

By: Maxthimus

Maxthimus — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:18:00 +0000

Looks like they are out.
aws.amazon.com.

Seems to pretty powerful than what the story mentions. Cool. Good competions.