The Open Web Platform is Transforming Payments
To help ensure that the Web evolves to meet new industry needs, we're convening banks, processors, regulators, card networks, e-commerce companies, telecom operators, multiple service vendors, browser and software vendors and others who are shaping the way Web Payments are developed.
Our community is focussing on
- Reducing card abandonment rates.
- Reducing security fraud.
- Fostering digital payment method innovation both on the Web and in-store.
- Facilitating digital offers including loyalty programs and coupons.
- Addressing payments in more device contexts such as in-car payments, Internet of Things payments and virtual reality payments.
- The impact of emerging regulations on Web architecture and capabilities.
- Harmonization with other standards efforts such as FIDO authentication, EMVCo tokenization and 3D Secure, and others.
Active groups
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AI KR (Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation) Community group
The overall goal/mission of this community group is to explore the requirements, best practices and implementation options for the conceptualization and specification of domain knowledge in AI.
Visit the AI KR Community GroupWeb Payment Security Interest group
A brief description of what this group does.
Visit the Web Payment Security Interest GroupPublishing Business group
The Publishing Business Group fosters ongoing participation by members of the publishing industry and overall publishing ecosystem in the development of the Web for publishing, and serves as a conduit for feedback between the publishing ecosystem and W3C.
Visit the Publishing Business GroupAccessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) Working group
The mission of the Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group is to develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, implementation, and conformance testing for W3C accessibility standards; and to support the accessibility work of other W3C Groups.
Visit the Accessibility Education and Outreach Working GroupWhy W3C
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Recent activities in the Web Payments community
The mission of the Web Payments Working Group is to make payments easier and more secure on the Web.
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W3C starts web payments standards work
New working group launched to make payments easier and more secure.
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Work begins on extensions to WCAG 2.0
A new charter for the Working Group was formally approved by W3C.
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What organisations think about us
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W3C technologies are both used and studied here, and we are proud to contribute to their development.
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Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
W3C Members
20 member organisations are involved in the web payment ecosystem, including:
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