One of the biggest hassles of deploying an eCommerce site for any store owner is getting the site to fit into not only your product specifications, but bend into your work processes. How do you divide payment between partner companies on a site, how do you gather points programs combined with credit card purchasing, how do I get dancing hamsters to sing when someone buys an amazing fishing lure. {they are out there] Some exciting news from Paypal, they announced yesterday that they will open development to third parties for their payment checkouts. This is a bold and awesome move on Paypal's part. It essentially will allow their payment methods to be more versatile than their competitors as the demand for development in this area is pretty vast. During my time at we did a lot of customizations to the checkout process and left the payment processing very generic. Store owners wanted the stores to fit into their particular work flow processes and not have to work around it. The innovation of Paypal to allow developers in the door will essentially allow premade packages to install on your eCommerce site and you end up with a host of functionality for quite possibly little to no charge. The article on PCWorld states that there is a startup called TwitPay what will offer payments through twitter via Paypal. The first developer conference will be held November 3rd - 4th in San Francisco. Got to for more detals.