Today marks the 20th year anniversary (and thus expiration date) of Amazon's monopoly on "one click checkout". For those who didn't know... in 1997, Amazon applied for, and was actually granted(!) to much controversy, a patent on one-click checkouts in e-commerce transactions - meaning that any other website that wanted to do the same either couldn't, or would have to license the patent from Amazon (which Apple ended up doing among a few others).
Up until now, this has been the reason why no big shopping cart software like Shopify, BigCommerce, and others, or their 3rd party plugins for that matter, could offer this convenience. You were forced to give customers a few more steps or pages to go through.
But, not anymore
Today, the 20 year old patent expired, so expect to see the change coming soon to a lot of ecommerce sites. And last but not least - for entrepreneurs like us - it means we can soon begin offering this to our customers as well.
Amazon ‘1-Click’ patent expires today, get ready for faster web-wide checkout
Amazon '1-Click' patent expires today, get ready for faster web-wide checkout
Up until now, this has been the reason why no big shopping cart software like Shopify, BigCommerce, and others, or their 3rd party plugins for that matter, could offer this convenience. You were forced to give customers a few more steps or pages to go through.
But, not anymore
Today, the 20 year old patent expired, so expect to see the change coming soon to a lot of ecommerce sites. And last but not least - for entrepreneurs like us - it means we can soon begin offering this to our customers as well.Amazon ‘1-Click’ patent expires today, get ready for faster web-wide checkout
Amazon '1-Click' patent expires today, get ready for faster web-wide checkout
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