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Redirection to payment gateway

Redirection is an alternative way to incorporate payment processing into your checkout experience. Redirection can suit certain technical and use-case requirements, but redirection does not deliver the optimal customer experience.

Standard or custom merchant page integration offers the best customer experience, but it does require you to integrate Amazon Payment Services into your website code.

Instead of website integration, you can choose to redirect customers to the Amazon Payment Services server to complete payment. Redirect minimizes the coding and modifications made to your website.

Just like our standard and custom merchant integration routes, redirection supports common global card networks including America Express, Mastercard, and Visa as well as local payments methods and digital wallets.

When should you use redirection?

If your website has unique technical characteristics, or if you have an unusual use case, you may find that redirection is the best option for you.

Redirection may also be a good choice where you need the fastest route to adding payment capabilities to your website, or where your developer resources are constrained.

We recommend that you choose the standard or the custom merchant page integration routes if either route is a sensible alternative to redirection. Website integration offers your customers a better payment experience.

How does it work in practice?

With redirection, you authorize a customer's payment by sending your customer to an Amazon Payment Services gateway page for payment.

To process a payment, your site displays a checkout page where your customer agrees to a total amount to pay.

When clicking next, your customer is sent to a payment page on the Amazon Payment Services server where your customer's card details are captured and authorized. On completion, your customer is redirected to the merchant site.

In practice, redirection works like this:

  1. Your checkout page displays a total payable amount and a payment button.

  2. Your customer clicks the button to initiate payment and is then redirected to a page on a website that is distinct from your website. This website is hosted by Amazon Payment Services.

  3. Your customer completes their payment details on the payment page that is hosted on the Amazon Payment services website.

  4. The Amazon Payment Services server attempts to authorize the payment, presenting a 3D Secure page if the card is enrolled with 3D Secure.

  5. Amazon Payment Services sends your customer back to your site and sends a confirmation to your checkout page so that you can complete the transaction.

Note that you must correctly and adequately handle transaction feedback even when you make use of the redirection route. Every payment transaction that you process will trigger a response -- and your website must be able to interpret and respond to the transaction feedback. Read more about transaction feedback here.

Customizing redirection

Redirection directs your customer's browser to an Amazon Payment Services page to enter their payment details. However, you still have the opportunity to customize the landing page so that there is a clear link between your website and the payment page hosted with Amazon Payment Services.

For example, you can include the logo of your business and edit the colors and fonts used on the payment page.

Go to the full API reference

This page is intended to help you understand how the redirection integration route works. Developers should review the full API reference for complete instructions on how to implement redirection including a full list of parameters and the relevant endpoints.

Need further help?

If you get stuck feel free to get in touch with the Amazon Payment Services team. Just message our support team at merchantsupport-ps@amazon.com.