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As a merchant Amazon has to take a few other steps before I use Amazon Pay.

About a year ago I attempted to use the Amazon Pay WooCommerce Extension but had to turn it off because it was basically taking over the checkout page, placing itself at the very top of the page above the other payment options (https://in30minutes.com/amazon-pay-woocommerce-extension-why...).

Another consideration: How many vendors want to give even more power to the Amazon juggernaut? I like dealing with healthy, balanced ecosystems, and right now Amazon has far too much power in my product niche (publishing). It sucks dealing with policy changes, neglect of the piracy problem, and the fear that my account may be summarily penalized because of some algorithmic tweak or obscure violation (recent example: "One or more of your products doesn't meet the financial threshold established by Amazon and is no longer eligible for advertising via Amazon Marketing Services." WTF does that even mean?)

The last thing I want to see is the payments space similarly dominated by a greedy, uncaring giantco that "owns" the customers coming to my website. The behavior with the WooCommerce extension made me realize how bad they can be.



I'm not familiar with the extension, but you can build your own using their sdk. Extensions and auto-generated options usually have intrusive design choices.




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