Welcome

This document is intended for developers who want to sell one of the following:

Business Requirements

To use DevPay, you must comply with all of the following:

• Be based in the United States of America or be able to do business in the United States of America

• Have a U.S. bank account (funds earned through Amazon DevPay can be withdrawn only to a U.S. bank account)

	Note
	Your customers can be based anywhere in the world. To purchase your product, they only need a valid credit card.

One of the items we look for when determining if you can do business in the U.S. is a valid credit card with a U.S. billing address. You must provide that information when registering a product with Amazon DevPay. If you can’t provide that information, you won’t be able to use Amazon DevPay.

For additional requirements see:

• Amazon Payments User Agreement

• Amazon Web Services Customer Agreement

Your customers implicitly agree to the terms and conditions for your product and to a Billing Services Agreement when they purchase your product. A link to this agreement is displayed at the bottom of the page that your customers see when purchasing your product (for more information, see Product Purchase Flow in the Amazon DevPay Developer Guide).

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The typical getting started guide for AWS services shows how to use commands or create code in several programming languages to access the service. Because Amazon DevPay uses a web service but isn't a web service itself, this getting started guide is different. It instead discusses the general steps required to use DevPay. We recommend you use the guide to help you understand what is required at a high level and plan for your integration (for specific details, see the Amazon DevPay Developer Guide). After reading the guide, you should understand the major parts of your system that will be affected and the types of resources you need to move forward.

The guide is divided into the following major sections:

"What is Amazon DevPay?" briefly describes DevPay and why you would use it.

"The Steps to Using DevPay" summarizes the overall process you follow to use DevPay. The specific details of the individual tasks are covered in the Amazon DevPay Developer Guide. We list the relevant sections in that guide that you should read when performing each task.

"Amazon S3 Example" first gives an overview of how an Amazon S3 application works with DevPay. The section then discusses the specific changes necessary for an Amazon S3 application, using sample code in Java, C++, and Ruby. We don't include example code for an Amazon EC2 AMI because no coding is required to make an AMI work with DevPay (and the technical details are covered completely in the Amazon DevPay Developer Guide).

"Where You Go From Here" describes what we recommend you do next to get even more familiar with Amazon DevPay.

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The following table lists related resources that you'll find useful as you work with DevPay.