Plan for Checkout By Amazon discontinuing?

[nethrelm]

We received this e-mail from Amazon:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for being a loyal Amazon Payments customer and offering Amazon buyers the ability to transact on your site using Checkout by Amazon. Over the years we have developed a differentiated Commerce Identity offering for merchants and consumers that is represented by our Pay with Amazon offering. To simplify our offerings, we will be discontinuing the Checkout by Amazon service. We will continue to focus on growing Pay with Amazon’s features and capabilities. We are encouraging all Checkout by Amazon merchants to migrate to Pay with Amazon and we will support you during the process to make the transition seamless.

Please note that as a result of the transition your other Seller Central and Amazon Business accounts will not be impacted by this change. To ensure sufficient time for planning and migrating, the discontinuation of Checkout by Amazon will begin April 1, 2017. Important dates listed below:

April 1, 2017, your customers will no longer be able to place orders on your website using Checkout by Amazon (CBA).
You will have until August 1, 2017 to ship all of your orders that were placed with CBA.
On January 1, 2018, we will stop supporting CBA.
We will follow up with more details on the timeline and the best options to migrate and use Pay with Amazon. For more information you can contact us at cba-migration@amazon.com.

Sincerely,

The Amazon Payments Team

So, I would assume that the Able team will be working on a new Payment Provider that will replace Checkout By Amazon with the Pay With Amazon service? Please confirm that this is in the pipeline (and if it all possible, when we might expect to see the update). Thanks.

[Katie]

Please cast your votes here if you're interested in the Pay with Amazon service -

https://ablecommerce.uservoice.com/foru ... n-since-ch

If we see a lot of interest, then we will certainly be adding the new gateway.

Thanks
Katie

[nethrelm]

Any updates on this? We have received notice that Checkout by Amazon will no longer process new payments as of April 2nd, 2017. It is being discontinued in favor of Pay with Amazon.