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Amazon Pay is an online payments processing service owned by Amazon. Launched in 2007, Amazon Pay uses the consumer base of Amazon.com and focuses on giving users the option to pay with their Amazon accounts on external merchant websites. Before Amazon Pay was functional in China, in 2008, Alipay entered into a cooperation with Amazon.cn to enable payments through Alipay's platform in order to support cash flow, which was a problem for Amazon since the beginning. Around 70% of Amazon.cn's businesses were paid on delivery, and a large amount of cash is usually collected by those delivery companies. The integration supported Amazon's early B2C efforts in China, and Alipay was already being used for payments on Alibaba's e-commerce sites like Taobao, making it a logical choice. As of October 2024, the service was available to businesses based in 18 countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.