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Introduction

- Buying things on the web, particularly on mobile, can be a frustrating - experience for users. Every web site has its own flow and its own - validation rules, and most require users to manually type in the same - set of information over and over again. Likewise, it is difficult and - time consuming for developers to create good checkout flows that - support various payment schemes. -

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- This specification standardizes an API that allows user agents + This specification describes an API that allows user agents (e.g., browsers) to act as an intermediary between three systems in every transaction: the merchant (e.g., an online web store), the buyer, represented by the user agent (e.g., the user buying from the @@ -138,12 +130,11 @@

processing model in more detail.

- In addition to better, more consistent user experiences, this also - enables web sites to take advantage of more secure payment schemes - (e.g., tokenization and system-level authentication) that are not - possible with standard JavaScript libraries. This has the potential to - reduce liability for the merchant and helps protect sensitive user - information. + This API also enables web sites to take advantage of more secure + payment schemes (e.g., tokenization and system-level authentication) + that are not possible with standard JavaScript libraries. This has the + potential to reduce liability for the merchant and helps protect + sensitive user information.