Payment mechanisms designed for the Internet

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Anonymous Internet Mercantile Protocol.

BankNet offer an electronic cheque system in Sterling. In the future it will also incorporate the SET protocols.

Beenz is an account-based Web loyalty points system, often called a Web currency.

Brand's Cash: The PhD work of Stefan Brands on electronic cash payment mechanisms.

BT Array micropayment system from British Telecom.

Checkfree have plans for expanding the way commerce is conducted on the Internet.

Clickshare is a publishing system to to track movements and settle charges for digital transactions.

Commercenet are developing secure commerce on the Internet based on Secure HTTP.

Credit Card Network have a credit card authorization system using SSL.

Cybank is a Web payment system, where purchases are charged against funds held in a Cybank account.

CyberCash aim to offer secure credit card transactions, electronic checks and micro-transactions over the Internet. Currently payment can be made by credit card or using CyberCoins. Here is the protocol specification for their credit card payment system. Later they will be migrating to SET for credit card payments. Also available are an abstract from a CyberCash paper presented at INET'95.

CyberCents is an account based system allowing payments as small as a cent. Value is transferred into the account using a credit card.

Cybergold allows you to earn, and spend, money online.

CyberSource offer real-time credit card processing and other electronic commerce services.

DigiGold

Digital Silk Road is a proposed payment system for extremely low cost activities such as delivering and routing packets.

Downtown Anywhere has a system using account numbers, and personal payment passwords.

Ecash is a fully anonymous electronic cash system, using Chaum's blind signatures. Originally from DigiCash, acquired by eCash Technolgies in August 1999.

eCharge My Phone allows purchases to be charged to a local telephone bill. eCharge also have an account based payment system.

E-coin is a token-based micropayment system, which uses a client wallet plugin. Free tokens are currently available.

E-gold allows payments in gold (silver, platinum, or palladium) to be made from customer to customer using an account-based system.

Efficient Electronic Cash: New Notions and Techniques, by Yiannis Tsiounis.

Electronic Funds Clearinghouse, Inc. are forging new payment transmission and intake conduits over the Internet. Here's a quick summary.

Electronic Lottery Tickets as micropayments, proposed by Ron Rivest.

eScrip is electronic scrip (gift vouchers) for specific merchants, sold as fundraising for schools.

eVend is a Java based softgoods delivery and payment system, currently using credit cards as the payment mechanism.

First Bank of Internet (FBOI) (Now defunct).

First Virtual Internet Payment System.

Flexible Internet Secure Transactions Based on Collaborative Domains. Appeared at the Security Protocol Workshop'97.

FSTC Electronic Check Project

Globe ID payment system.

HashCash is a token based postage scheme using partial hash collisions.

iKP: A Family of Secure Payment Protocols from IBM, and the full iKP paper

InterCoin is an on-line billing service, with a try-before-you-buy attitude.

IPAY draft from the IETF Payment Working Group.

iPIN is an account based system, that aggregates purchases and charges them monthly to your ISP bill.

iWinpak is a PGP credit card application for Windows.

The Java Electronic Commerce Framework (JECF) is not an actual payment protocol, but will provide a framework for other payment protocols including SET, smart cards, micro-transactions, electronic checks and other tokens-based schemes.

LETSystems (Local Exchange Trading System) and community currencies.

Description of Magic Money.

MarketNet are introducing secure client and server authorised messaging systems.

MBroker, from MoreMagic, provides user billing/payment transaction management for chargable network services.

Micro Payment Transfer Protocol (MPTP) from the W3C Electronic Payments group.

Millicent from Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) was designed to support purchases costing less than a cent. These demonstrations illustrate how Millicent will be used. MiniMark is an implementation of Millicent, with a Java prototype available as part of an academic experiment.

Mini-Pay is an open spec and protocol for "pay cent per click" applications, from IBM.

Mondex electronic cash on a card, and plans for Mondex on the Net.

Neosphere micropayment scheme, uses Javascript to bill for URL access.

NetBank's NetCash.

NetBill Electronic Commerce Project, and related publications including a good introduction to NetBill.

NetCard - A practical electronic cash system.

NetCash ,an introductory article and the NetCash Home Page.

NetCheque.

NetChex , with test software now available.

NetFare is a pre-paid information access card for making small, aggregated, incremental payments over the Internet for purchases of electronic delivery of information.

NetMarket who implemented the first automatic encryption of commercial transactions on the Net.

NetPay is a micropayment system based on PayWord, which allows partially unspent chains to be transferred between vendors.

Netscape Communications sell Netsite Commerce Server and Netscape Navigator for conducting Internet commerce. An example using the Netscape secure server to perform commercial transactions can be found here. (requires Netscape Navigator client).

Online Check Systems allows checks to be accepted online.

Open Market have a Web Payment Scheme.

PayCash the fully anonymous electronic cash system from Russia.

Paylinx provide payment servers for credit card processing.

PayMe , as presented at the 4th WWW Conference , Boston, Dec.95 by me!

PayWord and MicroMint , two simple micropayment schemes from R.L.Rivest and A.Shamir

Pay2See is a plug-in payment application allowing pay-per-view Web pages by using an account based system.

PC Pay is a smart card based system for Internet payments and banking.

QPass aggregates small purchases at multiple merchants and charges your credit card periodically. Reminds me of the First Virtual model, but with a nice Web interface.

QuickCommerce is a credit card and ACH check clearing system.

Redi-Check offers a pre-authorized check draft service.

Secure-Bank.Com provides online transaction processing solutions for credit cards and check drafts, based on SSL.

Secure Electronic Payment Protocol (SEPP) from Mastercard et al. (No longer available). Superseded by SET.

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) from Visa/Mastercard. SETCo oversees issues relating to the global deployment of SET.

SecureOrder is a real-time credit card processing system and electronic checking service.

SecurePay , from Anacom, offers real-time credit card processing services based on SSL.

SecureTrans is another real-time credit card processing system and electronic checking service, using SSL.

Secure Transactions Technology (STT) from Visa and Microsoft. Old press release. Superseded by SET.

Security First Network Bank is an Internet Savings Bank.

SNPP: A Simple Network Payment Protocol.

SubScrip is an efficient payment mechanism for subscription style applications on the Internet, from the Monetary Systems Engineering Group, Univ. of Newcastle, Australia.

Sun Internet Commerce Group.

SVP : A Flexible Micropayment Scheme. Appeared in the proceedings of the Financial Cryptography '97 Conference.

ViaCheck Security System is a credit card based system.

VirtualPay is an on-line bill payment system, currently used by Mobil Oil, FirstUSA and E*Trade.

WebMoney transfer system, is an account based system with some anonymity, allowing transfer between temporary accounts using wallet software.

WiSP is a payment system which uses the existing relationship with an ISP, to allow third-party purchases to be billed by that ISP.

WorldPay provide multi-currency credit/debit card and account based micropayment solutions.

Ziplock is a credit card payment system where customers receive a key code to unlock the product only after it has been downloaded and their credit card authorized.

Listing of online banks worldwide.

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