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"Amazon's Jeff Barr is announcing tonight the launch of another web service that should appeal to developers.  The previously rumored Flexible Payments Service provides everything developers need to set up payments on their sites, far more so than the Paypal API - from one-time to recurring transactions, transactions limited by date, by the amount and much more.  \nIt's extremely extensive: the API documentation runs to 250 pages.  Meanwhile, FPS also claims to be good value compared to other services.  Here are those prices:\n\nFor Transactions &gt;= $10:\n* 1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers    * 2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits    * 2.9% + $0.30 for credit card\nFor Transactions \n\nIn short, this is a payments playground for developers: a web service that makes integrating payments easier and adds flexibility.  It builds upon Amazon's other web services, including Amazon S3 (storage and bandwidth), Mechanical Turk (humans as a web service) and Amazon EC2 (computing capacity).    They're currently accepting signups for the FPS beta, which may force other payment services to offer more flexibility."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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