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[isthisthingon]

Looks like a cool new technology: http://mashable.com/2009/07/23/paypal-x/
PayPal’s Open Platform Unveiled at First Developer Conference: https://www.paypal-communications.com/innovate2009/index.html

Yeah I'm beating the open source/platform drum again   But these features will make a big difference anyway:

• Send Money: Peer-to-peer payments can and will happen on multiple platforms, not just on PayPal.com
• Split Payments: You can now split payments among many recipients via the Platform. For example, if you need to pay multiple people a commission on the sale, you can send just one payment instead of four or five.
• Payment Preapproval: Once you log into a system and confirm prepayments, the API will automatically transfer funds based on pre-set specifications.
• Payment Aggregation: To reduce the costs of payment transactions, users can soon aggregate multiple payments into one lump transaction. Amazon Payments already offers this.

[kurdt]

• Send Money: Peer-to-peer payments can and will happen on multiple platforms, not just on PayPal.com
• Split Payments: You can now split payments among many recipients via the Platform. For example, if you need to pay multiple people a commission on the sale, you can send just one payment instead of four or five.
• Payment Preapproval: Once you log into a system and confirm prepayments, the API will automatically transfer funds based on pre-set specifications.
• Payment Aggregation: To reduce the costs of payment transactions, users can soon aggregate multiple payments into one lump transaction. Amazon Payments already offers this.

Sounds very cool. I like the idea of split payments and aggregation. Silly me, I thought p2p payments with PayPal were possible already...

[perkiset]

Paypal is another group that I just will not deal with, although I may have to in the near future again for some of the retail biz.