Payments Articles
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Innovating on Web Monetization: Coil and Firefox Reality
An in-depth introduction to web monetization with Coil. Coil is a payments platform that doesn't really on advertising or personal data collection to support digital content creators directly. Firefox Reality is rolling out a Coil-based experiment for creators and consumers, and you're invited to participate or learn more about how it works, and why Mozilla is involved.
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Easier in-app payments with fxpay
For developers building web applications on Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop, supporting payments is easy with Mozilla’s fxpay library. In addition to accepting credit cards, Mozilla’s payment system lets users charge purchases directly to their phone bill in many countries—making it ideal for mobile commerce. Since our first introduction to fxpay the library has received […]
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Introducing fxpay for in-app payments
A while ago Mozilla announced navigator.mozPay() for accepting payments on Firefox OS. This was our first step toward helping developers do commerce on the web. It solved the problem of processing payments but what about the rest? Today we’re announcing an early peek at fxpay, a library for the rest of what you need as […]
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Implementing In-App Payments in Your Firefox OS App
At Mozilla, we have been working on bringing payments to the web. We think it is important that developers have an easy way to monetize their apps. It also gives us the chance to offer deeper platform integration, allowing things like carrier billing in addition to credit/debit cards. We’ve talked about in-app payments before in […]
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Web Payments with PaySwarm: Purchasing (part 3 of 3)
The Promise of Web Payments The first and second articles in this series outlined how PaySwarm is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. The articles went on to explain how making the tools that have been traditionally only available to banks, Wall Street, and large […]
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Web Payments with PaySwarm: Assets and Listings (part 2 of 3)
The Promise of Web Payments The first article in this series on PaySwarm outlined how the technology is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. It went on to explain how taking the tools that have been traditionally only available to banks, Wall Street, and large […]
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Web Payments with PaySwarm: Identity (part 1 of 3)
The Promise of Web Payments The Web has fundamentally transformed the way we publish and interact with information. However, the way we reward people for creating that content has not changed. The Web’s foundation was not built to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. Making payments on […]
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Introducing navigator.mozPay() For Web Payments
What’s wrong with payments on the web? Any website can already host a shopping cart and take credit card payments or something similar. The freedom of today’s web supports many business models. Here’s what’s wrong: Users cannot choose how to pay; they have to select from one of the pre-defined options. In most cases, the […]
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Building A Paid App For Firefox OS
At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your Firefox OS phone. It enables you to sell a web app that will run on any open […]
