- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 14:19:35 -0500
- To: Web Payments Working Group <public-payments-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: mgiuca@chromium.org
Dear Web Payments Working Group, I came upon a somewhat recent proposal within the Web Incubator Community Group for a "Web Payments Digital Product Management API” that would work in conjunction with Payment Request. Here’s the proposal from Matt Giuca (of the Chrome Team): https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-payments-digital-product-management-api/4350 Problem statement: "The problem we are trying to solve is that Payment Request by itself is inadequate for making in-app purchases in existing digital stores, because that API simply asks the user to make a payment of a certain amount (e.g., “Please authorize a transaction of US$3.00”), which is sufficient for websites selling their own products, but established digital distribution services require apps to make purchases by product IDs, not monetary amounts (e.g., “Please authorize the purchase of SHINY_SWORD”); the price being configured per-region on the backend.” Matt Giuca raised an issue on the Payment Request API that would make the proposal easier to integrate: Make "total" and "details" optional https://github.com/w3c/payment-request/issues/912 I’m sure Matt would appreciate feedback on either or both of the proposal and the pull request. Thanks! Ian -- Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> https://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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