Amazon Payments enables mobile payments option for its customers

 Amazon Payments LLC, an Amazon.com company, has launched its new Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS), that allows developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications to process payments from mobile devices and extend Amazon’s 1-Click checkout experience to their customers. Amazon customers can use the existing payment and shipping information in their Amazon.com accounts to make purchases from their mobile devices.

Having signed in from an Amazon MPS enabled device or mobile application customers get automatic access to shopping from their mobile devices using 1-Click functionality. According to the official statement, using a simple set of API’s and an optimized mobile browser experience, developers and merchants can easily extend single or multi-use payment options to their customers. Besides, developers and merchants who already offer Amazon Payments on their website can easily add the new mobile payment option for their customers without any additional backend technology development. 

“We’re pleased to make it easier for our Amazon Payments developers and merchants to extend mobile payment options and the ease of 1-Click checkout to their customers,” said Howard Gefen, Director of Amazon Mobile Payments. “Amazon customers can now also make purchases on third party sites without needing to set up separate payment accounts—they simply use the payment information in their existing Amazon accounts.”