Skrill has launched Skrill 1-Tap – a new product that brings quick and easy mobile payments to merchants and customers. Research shows that 33 per cent of UK smartphone users made a purchase on a mobile device in 2011.

When customers make a payment via Skrill with a merchant for the first time, they will be required to enter their payment details as usual. Once complete, they will then be given the option to enable Skrill 1-Tap for future purchases.

Skrill has also announced an extension to its Quick Checkout Enterprise payment suite, which enables direct card processing, by introducing a brand new HTML5 payment gateway specifically targeted at mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

The new mobile payment gateway enables merchants to process payments on any mobile device, whether through a mobile website and/or through an application designed specifically for mobile operating systems. Using responsive design, the gateway will automatically resize so that it is optimised for viewing on any smartphone or tablet device.

“With new the smartphone revolution, m-commerce has finally the potential to really take off,” says Martin Ott, co-CEO at Skrill. “But the truth is that, for many on-the-go consumers, the idea of using their mobile to enter payment information appears difficult and time-consuming. Skrill 1-Tap changes all this by offering a quick and easy way to mobile payments. Finally merchants have a solution that makes m-commerce much more convenient, opening up exciting new business channels and giving customers a seamless mobile shopping experience.”

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