How can you build a mobile app that accepts payments? Whether it’s a travel app or a fashion mobile commerce application, you need to somehow accept electronic payments for physical goods. Mobile shopping accounts for a large percentage of e-commerce retail sales in the US, according to Statista. It’s critical to have a payment processing gateway that runs smoothly in your mobile app.
We aren’t going to talk about in-app purchases of digital goods and how to implement them. These kinds of purchases on iOS and Android devices are performed solely by Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store services. Neither of the app stores let individual applications sell digital goods through third-party services. But once your app sells something “real” — a physical commodity — then you’re free to choose whatever payment system you like, thereby avoiding Google’s and/or Apple’s 30 percent share for every purchase made in your app. Let’s talk about how to integrate a payment gateway in your mobile app to process payments for physical goods.