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

84 points| kumar303 | 11 years ago |hacks.mozilla.org | reply

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[+] timboslice|11 years ago|reply
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|reply
Is Firefox Desktop the web browser on pc etc and does that mean ordinary websites can bill to cell phones etc through this?
[+] neil_s|11 years ago|reply
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?
[+] kumar303|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] kumar303|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] philbo|11 years ago|reply
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.