Amazon Payments has started its Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS), providing developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications an easy way to process payments from mobile devices and extend Amazon’s 1-Click checkout experience to their customers.
Amazon MPS enables customers to use the existing payment and shipping information in their Amazon.com accounts to make purchases from their mobile devices.
“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,” said Howard Gefen, director of Amazon Mobile Payments.
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.