Amazon Payment Services Features

Ability to accept coupons, discounts, promotions, and gift cards.

Ability to charge customers on a recurring basis for subscription-based purchases

Customer data is securely stored so there is no need to repeatedly enter data for multiple purchases

Ability to accept different types of credit and debit cards

Ability to accept and process eChecks and ACH payments as a form of payment

Ability to split payments between merchant and sellers

Supports real time payments

Allows users to process payments in multiple currencies.

Online portal through which end users can access the system, manage tasks, or obtain information

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Turnaround time for money to be transferred to the merchant's bank account

Web form that the merchant can use to enter credit card payments manually (from over the phone, mail, etc) and issue returns or void previous transactions

The process for handling chargebacks and disputes with the payment gateway.

Process payments from multiple channels such as ACH, mobile, or e-commerce.

Supports levels 1 and 2 for credit card payment processing.

Supports level 3 credit card processing which requires additional data for qualification.

Ensures that the service is building and maintaining a secure network; protecting cardholder data; maintaining a vulnerability management program; implementing strong access control measures; regularly monitoring and testing networks; and maintaining an information security policy

Fraud protection filters such as high risk countries, email service provider risk, high risk BIN, account number velocity, high item number, shipping/billing mismatch, AVS failure, CSC failure, and others

Sensitive data (personal info, CC info, etc) is replaced with non-sensitive equivalent, aka a Token. The tokens act as a reference that maps back to the sensitive data through a tokenization system.

An additional layer of security to prevent fraudulent activity (such as creating an account and verifying an email address and cell phone number)

Support cardholder verification methods for POS transactions.

Allows developers to customize payment form to accommodate their unique processes.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

Provides standard integration with merchant's accounting software

Provides standard integration with merchant's e-commerce software

Payment gateway is consistently available (up-time) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the gateway to respond to an action they took. System scales with load.

The gateway supports multiple currencies and languages to enable business from customers in multiple countries

The payment gateway is supported in the country in which the merchant operates

Application Programming Interface—Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Complies with payment card industry (PCI) regulations

Supports EMV chip card and Near Field Communications (NFC) technologies

Provide integration with accounting software and ERP systems.

Provide integration with B2B and B2C e-commerce platforms

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives