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MasterCard Wants Programmers to Use Its Payment Technology

• lunaru 16y ago
  Too bad their developer site will most likely spend more time convincing me about their "solutions" than showing me what it means in code. If MasterCard wants me to commit to their platform, give me a Rails plugin (and SDK/plugins for other popular platforms/languages) and show me sample code. Show me how simple it is. I think this is generally applicable to a lot of APIs offered by established companies. In terms of payment APIs active_merchant is the gold standard: http://www.activemerchant.org/ http://www.activemerchant.org/. It took me about 20 seconds to be fully convinced that it was what I wanted to use.
  • gte910h 16y ago
    I want that for Objective C and Python. Man that's sexy.
  • mildweed 16y ago
    Just like PayPal's site(s). 3 ways to tell me the steps in the processes, each with different names, but barely a decoder ring for the API.
• invisible 16y ago
  Why does this NYTimes article not link to the source...? http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/mc_launching_new_open_api_developer_portal.html http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/mc_launchin... A site showing the benefits are missing currently. You have to email to get the API - that seems very strange to me. Why not wait until you have something to show?