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Important message:
Beginning December 11, 2008, Amazon.com will not support payments through the Amazon Honor System. Website owners, for alternative Amazon technologies, please see our Make Money and Amazon Payments Business Solutions pages.

Amazon Honor System

The Amazon Honor System has served an important function for members and for Amazon.com since its inception in Fall 2001. The Honor System has also been central to Amazon's larger efforts to assist disaster relief agencies such as the American Red Cross.

The Amazon Honor System has been a safe and easy way to support websites and to buy digital content online. Participating websites have displayed an Amazon Honor System Paybox that linked to a PayPage at Amazon.com, where Amazon.com customers could make a payment quickly and securely using their existing account information.

Although we are discontinuing the current Honor System framework we intend to continue our support for charitable giving with new technologies.

New Amazon Payments Technologies

Amazon Payments offers a number of products that allow website owners to add a stand-alone e-commerce payment solution or an entire shopping cart process to their websites. By using Amazon Payments, you can enable tens of millions of Amazon customers to complete transactions on your website using the same information in their Amazon.com account.

For a quick overview of Amazon Payments products, visit our Seller Help page: Using Amazon Payments for Selling on Your Own Website.

Additional Resources for Charities

Amazon.com supports many organizations and worthy causes through our Wish Lists and Associates programs.

With Wish Lists, charities create a highly customized list that lets potential contributors know exactly what items they need the most. Learn more about Creating a Charity Wish List.

Through the Amazon Associates Program, charities place links on their website to Amazon.com. For each purchase made through these links, the organization earns a referral fee from Amazon.com. Learn more about the Associates Program.

Honor System Transactions

Donors will find their Amazon Honor System transaction information in their Amazon.com Your Account pages. For help, see Using Your Account.

Website members with questions about specific transactions or disbursements can contact Amazon.com using this web-based form:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/seller-support.html

Feedback

To send us your feedback about the discontinuation of the Amazon Honor System, please write directly to honor-system-feedback@amazon.com.


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