Incompatible payments from e-commerce sites and from mobile devices can leave small businesses with bookkeeping nightmares of goods and services delivered, but no payments in the bank.
Now, thanks to “Simplify Commerce,” a new offering from Purchase-based MasterCard Worldwide, when “the check is in the email,” it”™s also quickly available for deposit.
MasterCard claims ease of use and response “regardless of payment brand, in a matter of minutes.”
The “payment acceptance” portion of small business websites ”“ whether the sites of merchants or developers ”“ has proven problematic, MasterCard said: “Merchants, especially those managing smaller businesses, do not always have the resources readily available to help them set up the payments acceptance portion of their sites.”
“As a technology company with a strong history of payments experience, MasterCard is always looking for ways to empower merchants to grow their businesses,” said Garry Lyons, chief innovation officer for MasterCard. “By offering straightforward integration tools to developers and streamlining the process for businesses to get a merchant account, Simplify Commerce makes it easy for merchants to deliver online and mobile payments experiences to their customers.”
To make it easier for developers who work with merchants, Simplify Commerce is also offering so-called “application programming interfaces” and “software development kits” in a variety of programming languages including Ruby, PHP, Python and Java. Mobile software kits for iOS and Android are also available. Technical support is accessible at www.simplify.com.
