Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service
July 30, 2008 – 8:46 am
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon wants its customers to take their wallets with them when they leave the giant Web store.
The Seattle-based online retailer unveiled on Tuesday a new payment service that it will offer other online retailers to use on their Web sites. That means the 81 million customers who have already given Amazon.com their payment details, like credit card numbers and shipping addresses, will be able to use that information, without re-entering it, to buy products on any site that uses the new service.
Checkout by Amazon, as the service is called, will also let these Web sites use Amazon’s one-click ordering system, easily calculate sales tax and shipping costs, and let their customers track the shipment of their purchases… (read more)
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