Checkout by Amazon is a complete eCommerce checkout solution that provides your customers with the same secure and trusted checkout experience available on Amazon.com today. It offers unique features including Amazon's 1-Click® and tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and charge-backs.
There are no start-up charges, monthly charges, hidden fees, or long-term contracts
Fees are assessed on a per-transaction basis and vary depending on the transaction amount. They are based on a percentage of the transaction amount plus a per transaction fee.
For Transactions >= $10:
2.9% + $0.30 for all transactions
Volume Discounts
2.5% + $.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume from $3k-$10k
2.2% + $.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume from $10k - $100k
1.9% + $.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume over $100k
For Transactions < $10:
5.0% + $0.05 for all transactions
How it Works
Set up your Account
Follow a few quick and easy instructions to set up your Amazon Payments Seller account. Complete your settings such as your customer-facing information, shipping and tax rates.
Place Amazon Payments buttons on your website
Integrate Amazon Payments with your website. Communicate to your customers that you now accept Amazon Payments using marketing tools. Once you have successfully integrated, tens of millions of Amazon customers can use information in their Amazon account to complete purchases on your website without re-entering information.
Customers place orders by clicking Amazon Payments buttons
By clicking on Amazon Checkout buttons placed on your website, customers place orders and experience the familiar checkout experience they enjoy at Amazon.com
You ship products to customers
Amazon Payments notifies you by email when an order has been placed. You simply pack and ship your item to the customer (unless you let Fulfillment by Amazon do the work).
Amazon Payments transfers payments to you
Amazon Payments deposits payments received from your customers into your bank account, and sends you an email notifying you that your payment has been sent.
Features & Benefits
Key Features of Checkout by Amazon include :
Low friction for Amazon customers: Customers can use information from their Amazon.com account to complete purchases on your website without having to re-enter their shipping address or payment information.
Familiar Checkout Experience: Checkout by Amazon provides the familiar checkout experience available on Amazon.com today on your website.
1-Click® ordering: Checkout by Amazon can identify Amazon.com customers shopping on your website and offer them Amazon's 1-Click® experience. This allows customers to place orders instantly without leaving your website.
Cart up-sell: Checkout by Amazon enables you to up-sell your products within the checkout pipeline. At your option, you can also earn Amazon.com Associate commissions for up-selling Amazon products during checkout.*
Reduced bad debt: Amazon's proven fraud detection capabilities, chargeback controls, and risk management processes reduce bad debt.
Shipping rates and Sales tax: Checkout by Amazon provides real-time shipping and sales tax calculation when customers place orders. It provides tools to easily configure the shipping and sales tax rates.
Promotions: Checkout by Amazon provides tools to create and offer customized promotions to your customers.
Purchase protection for your customers: Your customers will feel more confident buying from your site knowing that they have the same protection under the Amazon A-to-z Guarantee that they have when they shop on Amazon.com.
Order Management: Checkout by Amazon provides tools to view, edit, settle, and cancel orders, search orders by date, download orders in a text file, and print shipping labels and packing slips.
Works seamlessly with Fulfillment by Amazon: Checkout by Amazon combined with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) enables merchants to outsource both transaction processing and fulfillment.
Co-branded payment pages: You can co-brand the checkout pipeline hosted by Amazon Payments with your own logo.
To learn more about how Checkout by Amazon works, visit What Your Customers See and How it Works for You.
Key Benefits to Your Customers include:
Convenience: Customers can use information from their Amazon.com account to complete purchases on your website without having to re-enter their shipping address or payment information. Customers can also place orders instantly using Amazon's patented 1-Click feature.
Trusted Checkout Experience: The secure and familiar checkout experience customers enjoy at Amazon.com is now available on your website.
Purchase protection for your customers: Your customers will feel more confident buying from your site knowing that they have the same protection under the Amazon A-to-z Guarantee that they have when they shop on Amazon.com.
Key Benefits to You include:
Increased Conversion: Amazon's familiar checkout experience, 1-Click ordering, A-to-z Guarantee, and tens of millions of customers who can checkout without re-entering information helps you optimize conversion on your website.
Reduced bad debt: Amazon's proven fraud detection capabilities, chargeback controls, and risk management processes reduce bad debt
Easy Integration: Simple-to-implement copy and paste code makes it easy to integrate Checkout by Amazon into your website.
Cart up-sell: Checkout by Amazon enables you to up-sell your products within the checkout pipeline. At your option, it also provides an opportunity to earn Amazon.com Associate commissions for up-selling Amazon products during checkout.*
Works seamlessly with Fulfillment by Amazon: Checkout by Amazon combined with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) enables merchants to outsource both transaction processing and fulfillment.
Checkout by Amazon is a complete checkout solution that brings Amazon's secure and trusted checkout experience to your website with unique features including 1-Click®. It provides tools to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including shipments, refunds, cancelations, and chargebacks.
Checkout by Amazon is currently available only for sellers in the United States. Sellers can ship to following foreign countries Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (Note: U.S. protectorates, including Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, APO/FPO, and so on, are also supported by Amazon Payments.)
Yes. Checkout by Amazon uses information that buyers have in their Amazon.com accounts. We provide a way for buyers to create an account during checkout if they don't already have one.
1-Click ordering is automatically enabled for buyers who have turned on 1-Click in their Amazon.com account. Buyers can simply click the 1-Click button to place orders using the default shipping address and payment method on their account without leaving your website.
There are two ways to integrate with Checkout by Amazon. Basic Integration
Basic integration is the simplest way to get started with Checkout by Amazon and requires only basic HTML knowledge. If you do not have a shopping cart and know the amount you are going to charge for an item, you can simply create a Checkout button using the Checkout Button Generator and paste the created code into your website. Click here (note: you will need your login information) to create the Checkout button.
Advanced Integration
If you have your own shopping cart or use a shopping cart from a third-party provider, you can use Advanced Integration to integrate Checkout by Amazon with your website. Advanced Integration requires programming knowledge of HTML or XML.
Checkout by Amazon can be easily integrated into the third-party shopping carts. Click here
to see the shopping carts that currently support Checkout by Amazon. If your third-party shopping cart does not support Checkout by Amazon, contact us with the details of your cart provider and Amazon will work with you to integrate your shopping cart.
See the Integration Guide and the Developer Guide for more information
The following payment methods are accepted by Checkout by Amazon: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, JCB, or Diner's Club credit cards. All credit cards used for payment must have a U.S. billing address.
You can add an Amazon Payments mark to your website to let your buyers know you accept Checkout by Amazon. You'll find tools for adding the Amazon Payments mark in the Marketing Toolkit, which has additional resources such as sample e-mails, payment marks, and graphics.
There are no minimum fees, start-up charges, or long-term contracts to use Checkout by Amazon. Fees are assessed on a per-transaction basis and vary depending on the transaction amount. They are based on a percentage of the transaction amount plus a per transaction fee:
For transactions of $10 or more: 2.9% + $0.30 for all transactions For transactions less than $10: 5.0% + $0.05 for all transactions
Volume discounts 2.5% + $0.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume from $3k-$10k 2.2% + $0.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume from $10k - $100k 1.9% + $0.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume over $100k
Download and learn our complete checkout solution that leverages Amazon's e-commerce capabilities and offers your customers a familiar, trusted experience.
Webinars
Checkout by Amazon: Inviting Amazon customers to shop on your site. In this webinar we will introduce you to Checkout by Amazon. We offer a set of payment and checkout solutions that enable tens of millions of Amazon customers to complete purchases on your website using the same information in their Amazon.com account. If you are a merchant, a solution provider or a developer working with merchants, this webinar is for you. View On-Demand Webinar
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