<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey there,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This email is just to introduce dev-fxacct about a project that we are starting on next month and that’s something we are calling Payments for Firefox Accounts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The goal is to be able to allow any Mozilla property (think all the things we are building in Cloud Services) to easily accept payments in the form of one-off payments and subscriptions. The Mozilla property will need to be using Firefox Accounts as its identity provider and this is a service we’ll “attach” to that. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is different from Marketplace Payments which is focused on accepting money for developers from users and things like carrier billing [1]. Whats similar is that we won’t be processing credit cards but using a third party provider [1 also].</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had an architecture kick off meeting this week and are figuring out the best ways forwards. The goal is to keep the project as independent from the rest of Firefox Accounts as is possible, although there’s quite a lot of interaction that’s going to happen: how does the Mozilla property access the payment data, can we use the as yet not build Firefox Account Notification queue, how do we communicate events when the user is present etc, etc...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyways, we are on the <a href="mailto:dev-payments@mozilla.org" class="">dev-payments@mozilla.org</a> [2] mailing list and on #payments in IRC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any questions or feedback welcome as we figure this stuff out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Payments/FirefoxAccounts#Compared_to_Marketplace_Payments" class="">https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Payments/FirefoxAccounts#Compared_to_Marketplace_Payments</a></div><div class="">[2] <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Payments#Communication" class="">https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Payments#Communication</a></div></body></html>