Firefox/Features/Web Payments
Introduction
This feature targets to enable a frequent online shopper to make online purchases without having to fill in all of the personal and payment information over and over again. Together with the feature “Form-autofill”, it saves user's time and effort when making online purchases by storing their personal and payment information in a profile and automatically populating form fields and payment information when the user requires it.
The overall objective is to increase user engagement, satisfaction, and retention for frequent online shoppers. We believe this can be achieved by enabling users to complete forms and “check out” in e-commerce flows as quickly and securely as possible.
The W3C PaymentRequest API is currently in draft stage and has momentum. The API is extensible to any payment source without requiring the browser to be Payment Card Industry compliant. compliant.
Status Summary
- 2017’H1.
- (Ongoing) Payment Request API development.
- (Ongoing) User research of Payment Request (Basic Card) UX.
- (Done) Payment Request Handler API Proposal. It's been merged into the renamed Payment "Handler" API (was the Payment "App" API) spec.
- 2017’H2
- (Planned) “Payment Handler API” implementation, which will be based on the experience of Payment Request API implementation, and partners' feedback if any.
- (Planned) Basic Card UI implementation.
Discussion
- IRC: #payments
- Weekly Meeting: https://goo.gl/4A0G5x
- Auto Fill/Web Payments Mailing list: autofill@lists.mozilla.org
Project Members
- Product: Joe Cheng
- User Experience: Juwei Huang (UX), Fang Shih (Visual)
- Engineering: Marcos Caceres (Architect), Ben Tian (TDC Tech Lead), Alphan Chen, Eden Chuang
- Program Management: Wesly Huang