Open Web Payments !

Today we presented our proposal for Open Web Payments and the corresponding Open Stack to implement it and support it in a much easier and extensible way. Obviously as you all know, there are a lot of Payments Providers - from credit card networks & NACHA to Online Wallet/Checkout providers, Social/Virtual/Game currency to frequent flyer/buyer points, mobile payments to offline payments. Unfortunately for a developer integrating with each one of those is a nightmare given the differences in data model, APIs and protocols. Our goals with Open Web Payments effort were to:

1. Provide Consistency APIs across platforms
2. Provide a Single model for authorization, payments and transactions
3. Support both real and virtual currencies
4. Provide a Single, extensible document model

Please review our presentation on slideshare below and please join the google group (http://groups.google.com/group/owp-api) to help in discussing and evolving this proposal as a formal spec, and if possible help in building a few sample reference implementations.

Open web payments

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