Mobile payment companies also need to get cooperation from merchants, which must add a payment option to their mobile sites or applications — in much the same way that many online stores allow PayPal payments.
By that stage we're hoping to have added a payment option with a range of business models (free, fixed price, pay what you choose) with any payments received going entirely to the artists.
Line and Snapchat have recently added a payment service, as has Facebook Messenger.Although most messaging services are free, WhatsApp charges a small subscription fee, of 99 cents a year, something the main social networks have shied away from.
Add a payment method to a smartphone and connected labels to anything, and we can walk out of the shop with the object of our desire in hand - and without being done for theft.
The difficulty of adding a payment layer to a service online was encountered first-hand by cofounders Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur.
So they build out the workflow around questions, they thread logic into it, they can add a payment component to it, they can collect files through the Typeform.
"We actually believe we can play a part in payments down the line, by letting you build a page full of stuff that's for sale and adding a payment widget," said Plyush.
That has worked well as far as it goes, but in order to separate from the growing pack of competitor companies, it announced today that it's allowing users to add a payment to be collected digitally at signing.
And this is where Sell Online, which lets Flint businesses add a payment option straight into their websites, fits in, stemming from requests from customers who want to offer basic payments from their sites that integrate with the rest of what they are doing with Flint.
Swiss watchmakers Winwatch and Montfort, for example, both recently showed traditional wristwatches with the CCP chip embedded, and will be implementing the chips into their watches — adding a payment capability you can find on a smartwatch like the Apple Watch to a range of non-smartwatches.
