Payments Watch

Track Online Payment Volumes As They Occur

John Januszczak — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:00:52 +0000

This is a very cool site: the Chase Paymentech Pulse Index. This index tracks online shopping activity in the United States during the November to December holiday season. According to the site, payments generated by 10 of the nation’s 30 top Web merchants are monitored for payment transactions as they occur.
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Amazon Flexible Payment Service

John Januszczak — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:01:46 +0000

As anticipated, Amazon has launched its new payment service. Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is being promoted by Amazon as being the “first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers”. It is a set of web services built on top of Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.
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Payments Opportunities in Second Life

John Januszczak — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:57:59 +0000

Currently residents of Second Life, a virtual world created by Linden Labs buy from and sell to one another directly using the Linden (a virtual currency which is exchangeable for US dollars and other currencies on market-based currency exchanges). How about offering other payment channels in Second Life like credit cards?
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Barter Then & Now

John Januszczak — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:07:47 +0000

Dave Birch at the excellent Digital Money Forum discusses how at a time in the not so distant past Americans reverted to Barter. In fact with no real money around in the Great Depression, people started to print their own money, called “scrip”.
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Using PayPal Once a Quarter

John Januszczak — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:46:08 +0000

How many customers does PayPal have, and how often do they use the service? How does this compare to a big bank? An article on PayPal’s Nebraska operations centre provides some interesting insight into the use of PayPal:
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