Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/easier-in-app-payments-with-fxpay/

by kumar303 • 11 years ago

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timboslice• 11 years ago

TL;DR:

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, it also supports billing to a cell phone #

benologist• 11 years ago

Is Firefox Desktop the web browser on pc etc and does that mean ordinary websites can bill to cell phones etc through this?

swift• 11 years ago

Firefox Desktop is indeed the web browser on PC.

It sounds to me like you can definitely use fxpay to bill to credit cards on desktop. I'm not sure about the cell phone bill thing, though.

neil_s• 11 years ago

Anything special about Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop apps that prevents the use of companies whose full-time business model is payments processing? Or is the special thing about fxpay the ability to pay with your phone bill?

philbo• 11 years ago

Well it's open-source for one thing. And the MPL is a pretty accommodating license in that it works equally well alongside proprietary code, the GPL or more permissive MIT/BSD licenses.

kumar3033• 11 years ago

The main reason Mozilla built a payments service and offered a custom library for developers vs. recommending Stripe (etc.) is because no one supported the direct operator billing we needed in our Firefox OS launch countries with a developer friendly interface.

digi_owl• 11 years ago

Damn it, now i really want to see a FFOS powered flip phone on sale in the Nordics.

kumar3033• 11 years ago

Also, nothing on Firefox OS would stop developers from using any payment processor they wish to. It's all just web technology running on a mobile device so there are many payment providers to choose from, especially for US and European users.

Fxpay: Mozilla's JavaScript library for in-app payments

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