Flint intros mobile app payment integration
App2App Connect enables developers to embed a "Take Payment" button in their app with minimal coding.
Flint Mobile today introduced App2App Connect, an way for developers to extend their mobile apps to accept credit card payments on the spot and online without any extra hardware, according to a press release.
Flint said the new product is designed for business applications that help SMBs manage clients, forms, jobs, appointments or sales orders from their smartphones. App2App Connect enables developers to embed a "Take Payment" button in their app with minimal coding so that their business users can take advantage of Flint's mobile payment processing, instant account activation, low fees and transaction confirmation data, according to the announcement. Flint's proprietary card scanning technology eliminates the need for card readers, freeing app providers from having to distribute and support hardware accessories.
The new product supports the growing market for mobile SaaS apps for SMB's, which is forecasted to surpass $19 billion by 2017 according to Strategic Analytics.
Also today, Flint announced the addition of support for American Express and Discover card payments through its updated iOS and Android apps. Flint's standard credit card transaction fees apply to the new payment types for all modes of use without any additional costs.
"Virtually every web application for SMB's has extended into the mobile app world and increasingly is intersecting with how, when and where businesses need to get paid," said Flint CEO Greg Goldfarb. "With App2App Connect we are simplifying mobile payment acceptance for a rapidly growing ecosystem of apps and opening the Flint platform to developers for the first time."