I see a lot of fantastically innovative applications out there, where creative developers take APIs and make all kinds of new functionality with them. A stop by ProgrammableWeb shows so many great ideas–every day there are new web applications (or “mashups”) built by simply combining two or more APIs in a new, sometimes unexpected way.
Well, we’re wondering what people might do with the Intellivative Payments API. The goal of our payments API is to simplify adding payment functions (e.g., credit card, debit card, echeck transactions; recurring payments; card on file) to business applications–making it easier to integrate payments into whatever it is you might want to build.
So what WOULD you get if you crossed a payments API with a:
- billing API, an e-mail service, and an SMS messaging service?
- travel service and a map?
- claims processing system?
- movie?
- retail store, SMS messaging service and shipping API(s)?
- Twitter?
Perhaps none of these are groundbreaking ideas–some of them I’m sure have already been done. But maybe you have a business idea that hasn’t been done, or maybe a way to do something that has been done, only better. Or perhaps you have a new twist on an old business idea? Whatever it is, we’d like to hear it.
Are you a developer? Would you like us to feature your work on our blog? Tell us–What would you build with the Intellivative Payments API? We’d love to tell your story.
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