Oliver POS doesn't have a partnership with Amazon Pay. It supports Amazon Pay the same way any WooCommerce store does — through Amazon Pay's official WooCommerce plugin, opened inside Oliver's in-POS browser view at the counter. The cashier rings the sale, Oliver opens Amazon Pay's hosted login flow, the customer signs in with the credentials they already use on Amazon, and the transaction confirms against the card and address stored in that Amazon account. For tourists, customers without a wallet, or anyone who'd rather not retype a card number, Amazon Pay can quietly rescue a sale.
What Amazon Pay is, exactly
Amazon Pay lets a customer pay using the payment methods and shipping addresses stored in their Amazon account. It's a wallet plus an identity layer: the consumer signs in with Amazon, picks a card already on file, and the transaction is processed by Amazon's underlying payments infrastructure. The merchant receives funds on Amazon Pay's settlement schedule, minus the published Amazon Pay merchant fee.
Amazon Pay is strongest in markets where Amazon's consumer footprint is densest: Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan. In Germany specifically, Amazon Pay is one of the most-used checkout methods on the open web, and customers will actively look for it. Outside those markets the customer base is thinner, but it's still a useful "wallet of last resort" — the customer who left their physical wallet at home almost always remembers their Amazon login.
How Oliver POS opens Amazon Pay at the counter
The cashier scans or selects items in Oliver's register, taps Checkout, and picks Amazon Pay from the payment method list. Oliver opens Amazon Pay's hosted checkout inside an in-POS browser view — a focused, kiosk-style webview locked to that sale.
Amazon Pay's "Pay with Amazon" button surfaces. The customer either signs in on the cashier's screen or scans a link to their own phone and signs in there. Amazon Pay shows the cards and shipping addresses on file; the customer picks one and confirms. Amazon Pay processes the transaction and posts the confirmation back. Oliver writes the WooCommerce order with the correct line items, taxes, and tender type, and the receipt prints. The customer walks out with the goods. The Amazon Pay WooCommerce POS flow closes faster than typing a card number — the only fields the customer touches are username and password.
The Amazon Pay WooCommerce plugin — what Oliver rides on
The integration is built on the official Amazon Pay for WooCommerce plugin, maintained jointly by Amazon and WooCommerce. It installs from WordPress.org, connects to an Amazon Pay merchant account (created in Amazon Seller Central), and adds Amazon Pay as a standard WooCommerce payment method.
The plugin handles the OAuth-style sign-in handshake with Amazon, surface of the Amazon button, the authorise / capture / refund flows, and webhook notifications back to WooCommerce. Oliver only intermediates the in-store step: when the cashier picks Amazon Pay, Oliver loads that already-configured checkout in the in-POS browser view, and the customer takes it from there.
Why Amazon Pay is a good fit (and what to know)
Amazon Pay is a strong fit anywhere Amazon is part of the everyday consumer habit — especially Germany and the UK. For a tourist or visitor who doesn't want to expose a foreign card on the counter screen, Amazon Pay is friction-free because the credentials are already in the customer's head. For a customer who's left a physical wallet at home, it's often the only payment method they can complete in seconds. For a store with a high share of online-trained customers (electronics, books, toys, gifting, homewares), enabling Amazon Pay at the counter is a quiet conversion win.
What to know: Amazon Pay's merchant fee is comparable to a standard card rate, varying by region and volume tier. Amazon Pay is not a credit product — there's no underwriting, no payment-plan choice, just a regular card transaction against whatever the customer has on file. Refunds and disputes flow through the Amazon Pay merchant dashboard rather than the underlying card network, which means the merchant handles those tickets through Amazon Seller Central. And in markets where Amazon's footprint is small, Amazon Pay won't move the needle — pick gateways with stronger local presence in those geographies.
What this is NOT
Oliver doesn't partner with Amazon. No co-marketing, no rev-share, no special rate, no preferred-merchant status. Oliver doesn't charge a markup on Amazon Pay transactions — the merchant pays Amazon's published rate on the Amazon Pay agreement, and Oliver takes nothing on top. Amazon Pay is the processor on that transaction; the WooCommerce store remains the merchant of record on the goods. Oliver is the Point of Sale software that opens Amazon Pay's hosted page at the counter, and that is the full extent of the integration.
Setup in 4 steps
- Sign up for Amazon Pay through Amazon Seller Central in your country and obtain merchant credentials (Merchant ID, Public Key, Private Key, Store ID).
- Install Amazon Pay for WooCommerce and paste the credentials. Configure the authorise / capture mode and the order statuses you want to map to Amazon's events.
- Add Amazon Pay as a payment method inside Oliver's POS settings so it appears on the register checkout screen.
- Run a test sale in Amazon Pay's sandbox, confirm the in-POS browser view loads Amazon Pay's checkout, then switch to live mode and run a small live transaction to verify the order writes back to WooCommerce correctly.
FAQ
Does Oliver POS partner with Amazon Pay?
No. The Amazon Pay WooCommerce POS integration runs through Amazon's official WooCommerce plugin, which Oliver opens in an in-POS browser view at the counter. There is no contractual or commercial relationship between Oliver and Amazon.
Does Oliver charge a markup on Amazon Pay?
No. The merchant pays Amazon's published rate directly under the Amazon Pay agreement, and Oliver adds nothing on top.
Which countries does Amazon Pay work best in?
Germany, the UK, the US, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan are the strongest markets. In other countries, Amazon Pay still works but the customer adoption is lower and you'll get better conversion from locally dominant wallets.
Can a customer use Amazon Pay without an existing Amazon account?
No. Amazon Pay requires an Amazon login. Customers without an Amazon account will need to pick a different payment method on Oliver's register screen.
Oliver POS works with whichever WooCommerce-compatible gateway your store already runs. Browse the gateway list on /payments/, see the full integrations page, read the product details, compare plans on /pricing/, and try Oliver POS free for 30 days at /demo/.