Accept Amazon Pay
without building the integration
Amazon Pay lets shoppers check out using the address and payment details already stored in their Amazon account, so they never type card or shipping information into the merchant's form. Its value is conversion on familiar credentials rather than breadth of payment methods.
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- JPY
- Region
- US / Europe
- Methods
- 2
- Credentials
- Server-side only
- PaymentHood fee
- None
- Status
- Live
What is Amazon Pay?
- Coverage
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Merchant accounts are available in the United States, Japan and sixteen European countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Cyprus and Hungary.
Among the markets Amazon Pay serves — their own list is authoritative (opens in new tab).
- Currencies
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- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- JPY
Among those supported. Which ones your account can charge in depends on its registered country.
- Fees
- Set and billed by Amazon Pay, and published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top, at any volume.
- Official resources
- Website (opens in new tab) · Developer docs (opens in new tab)
Written against Amazon Pay's own documentation on . This page deliberately states no fees, no counts and no completeness claims, because those change without notice — for anything you are about to build on, Amazon Pay's own documentation (opens in new tab) is the authority.
Amazon Pay payment methods
Every method below runs through the same PaymentHood checkout. Turning one on or off is a dashboard setting, not a code change.
Amazon account
Checkout with the card and address already stored on the buyer's Amazon account
Cards
The cards the buyer has on file with Amazon
Amazon Pay fees and pricing
Two separate bills, and only one of them exists.
- What PaymentHood charges
- Nothing on your Amazon Pay transactions. No percentage and no per-transaction cut, at any volume. Every payment feature is free, and the optional Premium plan only adds white-label checkout branding.
- What Amazon Pay charges
- Amazon Pay sets its own rates and bills you directly. PaymentHood never sits between you and that invoice, so switching to or from Amazon Pay changes what you pay Amazon Pay and nothing else.
- What moves the rate
- Payment providers price per market and per method rather than as a single global figure. It settles in USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, and cross-currency transactions are not priced the same as domestic ones. It also accepts 2 different payment methods, and card, transfer and wallet rails each carry their own cost.
- Where to check the figure
- Amazon Pay publishes current rates on their pricing page (opens in new tab). That is the authority, not this page. We deliberately quote no numbers here, because a rate that has quietly changed is worse than no rate at all.
How PaymentHood works with Amazon Pay
A direct Amazon Pay integration is not just an API call. These are the parts every team ends up rebuilding — and the parts PaymentHood ships already done.
- Credentials
- Public key ID with a private key signing each request, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Webhook security
- Signed Instant Payment Notification, validated before an order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side charge status re-check against the Amazon Pay API before fulfilment
- Idempotent charge creation, so a retried request never double-charges a customer
- Automatic failover to another configured provider when Amazon Pay is unreachable
- One reconciliation view across Amazon Pay and every other provider you run
- Provider credentials never reach the storefront or the customer's browser
- Adding or switching a provider later is a dashboard change, not a re-integration
Amazon Pay integrations by platform
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for your store, then enable Amazon Pay in your dashboard.
How to connect Amazon Pay
Open your Amazon Pay account
Register directly with Amazon Pay and complete their onboarding. Funds settle from Amazon Pay into your own bank account — PaymentHood never holds merchant money.
Add the credentials to PaymentHood
Paste your Amazon Pay API credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They are stored server-side and never exposed to your storefront.
Enable it at checkout
Install the PaymentHood plugin for your platform, paste your PaymentHood API key, and Amazon Pay appears as a payment option. Test in sandbox, then switch to live.