DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tc8xvr/programming_the_pa) has announced the addition of the "Programming the Payment: From APIs to Commerce Platforms" report to their offering.
The increasingly rapid shift of payment activity to the Web and mobile devices relies upon the talent of software developers creating the integrated customer experience that consumers, merchants, issuers, card networks, and payment processors demand. Tools for developers that ease payment integration attract entrepreneurs and enterprise software developers to particular payment service providers.
Mercator Advisory Group's new report Programming the Payment: From APIs to Commerce Platforms, examines the expanding array of providers that are helping programmers program the payment. The report reviews offerings from top card networks, payment processors, and payment services providers for e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payment applications. Issues of identity, branding, and API management are addressed as well as the merger and acquisition activity of several major players.
Highlights:
- New opportunities for software developers to leverage payment capacities created by the proliferation of e-commerce, mobile commerce, and cloud-based wallet schemes.
- The two major categories of business models for companies offering payments and commerce services to developers
- The changes that variants of the commerce capture model enable for e-commerce and mobile commerce applications
- Changes that many entities, such as IP Commerce, are making as result of the shift in activity from e-commerce transactions to point-of-sale and mobile commerce
Topics Covered:
Executive Summary
Introduction
APIs, Payments, and the Commerce Platform
Net New Is No Longer Enough
Beyond the Gateway API
From e-Commerce to the Point of Sale
The Business Value
Getting There from Here
It Isn't Cheap
Levels of Programmatic Access
Benefits of a Commerce Platform
Vendor Platforms
eBay X.commerce
Headed Toward the POS
Visa
MasterCard
VeriFone
Inkiru
Stripe
SeerGate
American Express
Amazon
First Data
IP Commerce
Cautions
Identities, So Many to Choose From
API Management
Caught in the Middle
Adding Value
For Some Acquirers, It's Too Many Little Fish
The Branding Challenge
Conclusion
More than an API, It's About Business
Every Silicon Valley Giant (and Start-up) Gets It
Mobile Matters
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Table 1: eBay Acquisitions, 2008 - 2011
Figure 1: Evolution of Programmatic Access to Payments Services
Figure 2: Categorizing eBay Acquisitions
Figure 3: eBay's X.commerce Ecosystem Drives Volume to PayPal
Figure 4: IP Commerce's Enterprise Service Bus
Figure 5: IP Commerce Services Stack
Companies Mentioned:
- AJB
- Amazon
- American Express
- Apigee
- Chase Paymentech
- Cycle Computing
- dotCloud
- eBay
- First Data
- Heroku
- IP Commerce
- Inkiru
- Isis
- MICROS
- Mashery
- MasterCard
- PayPal
- S1
- SeerGate
- Stripe
- Vantiv
- VeriFone
- Visa
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