Current iOS apps using payment gateway integration have to redirect to the web based payment gateway system to complete the transaction which always makes it data intensive and unintuitive. PayPal today announced its new SDK and other features that make payment gateway integration an bliss for developers. PayPal’s CTO James Barrese today said that “Developers should have the freedom to focus on innovating for their customers, not spending time worrying about handling the complex task of payments. We listened when our developers said they wanted better capabilities from us, and now we’re doubling down on our developer programs to deliver the best tools in the industry.”
PayPal’s new service will allow developers to implement PayPal payment system right into the app itself which allows users to complete the transaction without leaving the app. Apart from that PayPal also released its card.io API that enable developers to integrate into their apps and allow users to just take a picture of their debit/credit card to retrieve the details of the card into the app rather than users needing to type in all the details into the app.
PayPal says that its new JavaScript PayPal button can be implemented with just five lines of code. PayPal is beta-launching REST, OAuth and JSON versions of its most popular APIs, payment processing and immediate settlement, to help streamline integration for developers.
More info on the new SDK: https://developer.paypal.com