Paymill launches Mobile SDK to make payments integration

Paymill launches Mobile SDK to make payments integration
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Paymill Mobile SDK

Paymill announced the launch of their Mobile SDK today, bringing their simplified payments solution (and detailed documentation) to iOS and Android. The goal is to help developers in Europe take advantage of the 50%+ of Europeans who have smartphones, as well as to enable the continued rise of Mobile Commerce.

The online payments space has been quite crowded in recent months – floating to the top and becoming the reference for payments integration is quite a battle, though Paymill has managed to deliver new products at a steady pace. Of course, incumbent PayPal has had a Mobile SDK for quite a while; however, the number of competitors in Online Payments integration widdles down when you begin talking about Mobile App Payments integration.

In order to get a better idea of the mobile payments market landscape today, I sat down with Paymill CEO Mark Henkel to talk about the announcement.

How are Mobile developers integrating payments into their apps today?

Mark HenkelPAYMILL‘s Mobile SDK is designed to make easy in-app payments. Today, such payments are mostly processed via the respective app-stores (Apple App Store or Google Play, Amazon etc …) which has advantages (very frictionless integration – users usually have an account) but also major disadvantages (very high transaction fees – normally between 20-30% of the amount). Other opportunities are to redirect a customer to a store’s regular web-site and use its checkout and payment facilities. This is usually inconvenient for the end-customer. PAYMILL closes the gap to make easy in-app payments with apayment provider different from the app-store payment services.

Where do you see the biggest opportunities for Mobile SDK? Mobile Commerce? Converting Freemium users to Paying via mobile (a big pain today)?

In the past, mobile commerce was largely neglected by traditional payment providers due to small market size and lack of adequate devices. Today, ubiquitous modern smartphones allow for convenient access to e-commerce applications and, as a consequence, the market is steeply growing. In the segment of traditional e-commerce, PAYMILL offers a product that meets modern mobile commerce requirements without the high fees of app-store related payment services. Based on the Mobile-SDK, e-commerce merchants can trade their goods through proprietary apps without losing conversion through redirections. Furthermore, they are able to offer complete multi-channel-shopping and can thereby increase customer loyalty.