Payment Options – ArtFire Partners with Amazon Payments

Sara Moore, Head of the Content Department for ArtFire.com, recently shared information with HandmadeMarketing.org about handmade selling platform ArtFire.

“ArtFire is partnering with Amazon Payments to give shoppers safe, secure payment options,” Sarah tells us.   “ArtFire has integrated the payment system used by 88 million people to better serve Artisans.”

“In an effort to make shopping on ArtFire.com more convenient in time for the holiday shopping season,” she explains, “ArtFire has added Amazon Payments to their payment options. With PayPal, Google Checkout, Revolution Money Exchange, check, money order, and now Amazon Payments, shoppers have more ways than ever before to buy from artisans on ArtFire.com.”

“With more than 88 million people already using Amazon Payments,” Sarah says, “this partnership will allow new shoppers the chance to make purchases off ArtFire using a payment service they know and trust. With Amazon Payments, shoppers don’t have to worry about signing up for a third party payment service so long as they have an account on Amazon. Amazon’s A to Z guarantee for buyers is well known throughout the ecommerce industry for providing safe, secure online payments and insuring transactions.”

“We want customers shopping on ArtFire to be able to use the payment system they’re familiar with,” said John Jacobs, CEO of ArtFire.com. “This new payment method coupled with ArtFire’s no registration needed to checkout makes it easy for buyers to purchase handmade, vintage, media, and supplies from artisans on the site.”

ArtFire says they are the premiere handmade marketplace on the web.   “Since our launch less than a year ago, ArtFire has accumulated more than 30,000 sellers and storefronts from all about the world,” Sarah tells HandmadeMarketing.org.

Members of ArtFire can design their own customizable studio storefronts and list their handmade items for sale with no fees.  “Members have full control over their studio policies, including the payment methods they accept. By interpreting Amazon payments into the site, members will be able to choose to offer it as a form of payment to give buyers additional ways to checkout and purchase,” she says.

Do you sell on ArtFire.com?  What do you think of the new features implemented by the online marketplace?  What would you tell another artisan considering selling on ArtFire?

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