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Subscriptions: How It Works

Amazon Simple Pay Subscription

Amazon Simple Pay Subscription enables you to charge your customers on a recurring basis. This button is offered as a simple HTML code which you can copy and paste to your website to enable subscriptions.

How Amazon Simple Pay Subscription Works for Your Customers

With Amazon Simple Pay Subscription, your customers experience the same secure and trusted payment experience that they enjoy at Amazon.com.

     
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Step 1. Click on the Subscribe button

Step 2. Sign in to the secure Amazon server

Step 3. Pick a payment method, such as a credit card, a bank account or your Amazon Payments account balance

Step 4. Confirm your payment

Step 5. Return to the website to continue browsing

How Amazon Simple Pay Subscription Works for You

1. Create your account and Amazon Simple Pay Subscription Button

Follow a few quick-and-easy instructions to set up your Amazon Payments Business account. Then, you can easily create an Amazon Simple Pay Subscription button using the button creation form.

2. Place Pay Now Amazon Payments buttons on your website

If you offer a single subscription on your website, simply paste the code created through the button creation form onto your website. If you sell a number of different subscriptions, you can create a button once and then customise it each time you display it on your site. Communicate to your customers that you now accept Amazon Payments using these marketing tools.

3. Customers pay you by clicking on Amazon Simple Pay Subscription buttons

By clicking on Amazon Simple Pay Subscription buttons placed on your website, customers pay you and experience the secure and trusted payment experience that they enjoy at Amazon.com.

4. You deliver products to customers

Amazon Payments notifies you by e-mail when an order has been placed. You simply pack and deliver your item to the customer.

5. Amazon Payments transfers payments to you

Amazon Payments deposits payments received from your customers into your Amazon Payments balance. You can withdraw your money to a bank account whenever you want.

Getting Started

  • The best way to learn about using Amazon Simple Pay Subscription is to read the Amazon Simple Pay Integration Guide. It contains step-by-step tutorials and multiple code samples to help you get integrated quickly.
  • The Resource Centre is a comprehensive directory of all the tools available to help you use Amazon Simple Pay Subscription. It contains links to all Guides, FAQs, forums and the Sandbox to help you get started quickly!