Starting Today Websites That Begin Accepting Amazon Payments Receive Free Payment Processing Through September 30, 2009
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 30, 2009--
Amazon Payments, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today
announced that leading shopping cart and e-commerce solution providers
now offer Amazon Payments as part of their offerings. Shopping cart and
e-commerce solution providers provide a host of services such as content
management, merchandising management, shopping cart, order management
and payments that help websites sell online. More than 25 providers,
including CardinalCommerce, Miva Merchant, Magento, ShopVisible,
Mercantec, and Zoovy will be supporting Amazon Payments as part of their
offerings. These integrations make it even easier for websites to begin
offering the ease, convenience, and security of Amazon Payments within
the framework of the e-commerce solution already provided to them by
these companies. In addition, Convio, a software and services provider
to the nonprofit community, is integrating Amazon Payments into its
fundraising platform to enable its client base to accept alternate
payment methods for online donations. Plug-ins for widely-used open
source e-commerce platforms, such as osCommerce and ZenCart, are also
now available for quick and easy integration with Amazon Payments.
Businesses and non-profit organizations can sign up and start using
Amazon Payments today at www.amazonpayments.com/offer
or by contacting any one of these providers directly.
“Working with shopping cart and e-commerce solution providers to make
sure their solutions seamlessly integrate with Amazon Payments was one
of our immediate priorities when we launched Amazon Payments less than a
year ago,” said Mark Stabingas, General Manager, Amazon Payments. “Now
businesses have an additional option for getting started with Amazon
Payments and reaching Amazon’s tens of millions of customers with the
easiest way for customers to complete a purchase, while also enjoying
the benefits of Amazon’s fraud-detection technologies.”
Amazon Payments solutions are available for merchants, service
providers, nonprofits and virtually anyone accepting payments online.
Checkout by Amazon is a complete e-commerce checkout solution suited
best for websites selling physical goods and includes support for tax,
shipping, and promotion functionality along with post order management
support. It offers customers access to their Amazon.com address book and
payment information to buy quickly and easily, and also transact using
Amazon’s 1-Click© ordering. Amazon Simple Pay is the best choice for
websites selling digital goods, offering subscriptions or services, or
accepting donations. It allows customers to use payment information from
their Amazon.com accounts without the need to re-enter the information.
Websites of all sizes, including retailers such as OneCall, Stacks and
Stacks, ToolKing, Jockey, and Fat Brain Toys, are already enjoying the
benefits of Amazon Payments. Amazon Payments is also accepted by the
American Red Cross, Jambool (one of the fastest-growing sites offering
virtual currencies for social networking applications), and (RED)WIRE
(the digital music magazine supporting medical aid to Africa).
“We added Checkout by Amazon to our website, making it easier for
Amazon.com customers to buy. Over 30 percent of customers using this
checkout option are brand new customers for us,” says Chris Smith, VP
Ecommerce/Catalog, Jockey International.
“Checkout by Amazon is already outperforming other payment brands by
bringing in net new customers and higher value orders,” says Howard
Wyner, CEO of Scentiments.com, a fragrance retailer named to the
Internet Retailer “Hot 100” for 2009. “The implementation through
CardinalCommerce was easy, and we consider the launch of Checkout by
Amazon to be an immediate success.”
Amazon Payments is also announcing a free payment processing offer
through September 30, 2009 to businesses and organizations that begin
accepting Amazon Payments using Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay
on or after April 29, 2009. Additional details and terms of the offer
are available at www.amazonpayments.com/offer.
About Amazon Payments
Amazon Payments provides consumers, merchants, and developers the simple
and trusted way to pay and get paid online. Amazon Payments enables
consumers to send and receive payments for goods or services by using
the payment methods already associated with their Amazon.com accounts.
Merchants and developers can also take advantage of a portfolio of
payment and checkout solutions, such as Checkout by Amazon, Amazon
Simply Pay and Amazon Flexible Payments Services, to enable tens of
millions of Amazon customers to complete purchases on their websites and
applications. Go to http://www.amazonpayments.com
for more details.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web
Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue
Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS),
Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments
and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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