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  • Amazon Launches Payments Partner Program For Ecommerce Platforms, Developers

    Amazon Launches Payments Partner Program For Ecommerce Platforms, Developers

    Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Payments Partner Program on Monday, aimed at helping ecommerce platform providers and developers extend Amazon Payments to their merchants. The program provides these platforms with tools and services to help them enable merchants to easily integrate with Amazon Payments.

    The program includes “solution pre-integration” and best practices to help merchants maximize effectiveness. Merchants themselves will be able to get knowledge-sharing and white glove integration service benefits that are exclusive to the program.

    “The Amazon Payments Partner Program provides Partners with the tools and resources needed to extend the trust and convenience of the Amazon experience to their merchant customers,” said Patrick Gauthier, VP, Amazon Payments. “We are working together across geographies and industries to help merchants grow and create experiences that delight customers throughout the shopping journey.”

    The program features 3 levels: Premier Partner, Certified Partner, and Certified Developer. Partners are eligible to receive account management, planning support, technical resources and training, Partner directory listing, and Partner designation with exclusive logos. Some will eligible for co-marketing activities.

    The partner program is free, and available on an invitation-only basis in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan. More info is available here.

  • Amazon Rumored To Be Working On Square-Like Service

    Rumor has it that Amazon is working on a service that could compete directly with Square and others in the mobile payments space.

    Leena Rao at TechCrunch reports: “A tipster and an industry source both tell us that Amazon is going after smaller chains of retailers for the product, and could be offering significantly lower credit card processing fees for merchants. Rumors are that Amazon could be offering a rate as low as 1.9 percent. Current offerings include fees of around 2.7 percent.”

    Beyond Amazon, competition in the space is already heating up. Groupon, for example, just launched its own product last week, complete with card readers and everything.

    This would seem like a natural extension of Amazon Payments, which has been around for years. The company is already making a push into the physical world, something Walmart’s halt on Kindle sales will likely only fuel. These stores already accept Amazon Payments.

    The company has also been expanding its locker service in retail stores, and as Rao notes, is looking to launch some retail stores of its own, where such an offering could be used primarily.

    Interestingly enough, in the online world, Amazon is also reportedly taking away searches from Google.

    As for Amazon, it’s also reportedly getting into the wine business. More on that here. This week, the company also launched eco-friendly retail site Vine.com.