This is great news, but it would be even better if amazon dared to start their service in Europe as well.<p>So far, there is no "real" competition to paypal for small developer sheds. In fact, I am sooo p<i></i><i></i> about it, that I think I'm going to start a payments service myself! Anyone come and join me?
Can anyone comment on why Amazon Payments still not available outside of US?<p>Amazon.com operates and accepts payments in EU and Canada. AWS is available in EU. Payments service is available for close to two years. There must be something some other answer than "it just takes time".
Is there a service -- similar to what Clickpass does for logins -- that uses all of the consumer payment gateways that are out there (Paypal, Goog Checkout, Amazon, Revolution Money, etc.) to give the user an easy choice at checkout of how to pay for something?<p>I guess kinda like E-junkie but w/ more options. I'm sure there is -- and if not I definitely think there should be.
For the record, Amazon FPS has supported recurring payments for a while now. We've been using them on Obsidian Portal for over a year.<p>What's new is that they've made it slightly easier to integrate with an existing site. This is good news, as the full power of FPS is an awesome and frightening thing to behold.
PayPal has a Direct Payment option where the credit card is processed in the background, and the user stays on your page instead of being redirected to PayPal. Essentially, the user doesn't know that PayPal is being used to process their payment. Does Amazon offer something similar?