Paddle’s Single-Click Apple Pay
Paddle writes:
Previously, to initiate Apple Pay, customers were redirected to a secondary page due to Apple constraints with top-level domains. But now, Apple has updated their framework, allowing us to provide a seamless, single-click Apple Pay experience, where the native payment dialogue is triggered instantly upon checkout—no redirects, no extra clicks!
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To get started with single-click Apple Pay, follow these simple steps:
- Turn on Apple Pay in your checkout settings from the Paddle dashboard.
- Download and host the domain association file from our developer documentation on the pages where Paddle Checkout is used.
- Verify your domain automatically or manually through our dashboard.
This is a bit confusing because the above link doesn’t go to the help page that actually has the domain association file. Once you have the file, you just remove the .txt extension that Safari adds and upload it to your site at /.well-known/apple-developer-merchantid-domain-association. Sure enough, now my store has inline Apple Pay instead of popping up a separate window.
Lots of people seem to like and use Apple Pay, and it seems to work as promised to make purchasing easy. A potential downside is that, when combined with Hide My Email, I see some orders where the only information that we get from the customer is the auto-generated e-mail address. If they later lose their order info, we would not be able to help them find it unless they know which address was used.
Previously:
Update (2024-11-06): Rosyna Keller:
Along with iCloud settings on macOS and iOS, you can search for and view generated Hide My Email addresses for each domain on the iCloud+ website by following these instructions.
It seems like, if you unsubscribe from iCloud+, the e-mail forwarding continues but you lose access to this management interface.
