Mozilla announces new web payments system

Mozilla has declared a new web payments system, fundamentally a common web API, to make payments easy and secure on connected devices. In line with the declaration, Mozilla will establish navigator.mozPay(), a JavaScript API which, according to the group, is motivated by Google Wallet's in-app purchase API except that it's been modified for things like multiple payment providers and carrier billing. It will be first introduced in the Firefox OS. After that, Mozilla plans to add navigator.mozPay() to Firefox for Android and desktop Firefox.

Announcing the move on its blog, Mozilla's Kumar McMillian elaborated that Mozilla's main goal with navigator.mozPay() was to give users and merchants choice, security, and an easy to use payments system

The scheme would run in a simple way and every time a web app appeals to the navigator.mozPay() API in Firefox OS, the tool would reveal a safe window with a ‘concise UI’ next which the consumer is genuine and the disbursement is charged to the credit card or client’s mobile carrier bill. After the end of the bill payment, the application sends the item and replicate purchases are speedy and simple.

The payment begins and ends with the customer but further notifications and the processing and occurs server side, so the payment side does not know concerning the produce that the consumer has acquired.

Mozilla also recommended that by enabling easier payments to and from websites, it could provide an alternative revenue stream for the web that bypasses the reliance on advertising proceeds.

"What if users openly paid for content instead? navigator.mozPay enables this kind of direct payment model: if something is good on the web, you can pay for it. It already seems to be working well for existing mobile application. Will mobile ads even produce the same revenue for content producers as they do on desktop? I don't have answers to these questions but one thing is for certain: the web should support businesses of all kinds and payments should be a first class feature of the web," McMillan said.

The company plans to add the API to Firefox for Android and its desktop browser once it has already started shipping it in Firefox OS

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