There is a perception – perhaps even a misconception – among those looking to do a payments integration, that completion of the project should be something like one of the following use cases: Add a field that reads from a USB swipe control, and a submit button. Add a text entry field, a card-type drop-down, [...]

PaymentsAPI.com launched today! This blog, managed by IP Commerce, is focused on the discussion surrounding API strategies and the payments industry.  Myself, as well as several other folk from IP Commerce & other industry participants, are partnering together to further the discussion about the topic of APIs.  As I have reiterated, over the last week, [...]

Whilst writing my series on IP Commerce Platform updates last week, I spoke about the concept of governance as it relates to Federated Identity and Commerce Business Rules.  It would appear that the discussion of governance was rather prescient, albeit unintentionally*, given other discussions late last week. There was a series of inter-related commentary related [...]

Over the course of the last 5 days, we have discussed several elements that were announced in a Press Release on June 7.  These discussions have included: Commerce APIs Federated Identity Commerce Business Rules All of these bits of technology enable important, required components to building a holistic payments workflow that includes Value-Added services alongside [...]

Federated Identity, as discussed yesterday, is about governance and security in commerce workflows but more is required to sufficiently drive the workflows that software companies are building, for their customers. Federated Identity is one element in the equation of governance.  The other key component, which is unique to IP Commerce APIs and Managed Commerce Services [...]