MasterCard announced today it will collaborate with Microsoft to bring simple and secure e-commerce payments to Microsoft Dynamics users.

Simplify Commerce, a uniquely versatile, highly secure and incredibly simple cloud-based payments platform, helps businesses grow by maximizing online and mobile sales. Through this collaboration, Microsoft Dynamics customers will have one system that connects their end-to-end planning and sales. This provides users with a number of key benefits:

• Easy Integration: Businesses can easily add payments to Dynamics AX to begin accepting and managing online and call center payments within their existing operation.

• Seamless Updates: Customers will stay up to date on the latest developments in the payments industry—from cutting-edge security to regulatory protocols—without lifting a finger. Through the integration, users will automatically take advantage of coordinated updates from MasterCard and Microsoft.
• Expansive Global Footprint: Simplify Commerce provides connectivity to acquirers worldwide through a single connection point. Businesses can expand geographically without hitting payments hurdles.

Simplify Commerce will be available in the coming weeks through Microsoft Dynamics AX in 13 countries: U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, The Netherlands and the UK. Additional market availability is planned over time.

“Businesses need to be able to sell to their customers wherever they are without headache or hassle,” says Deborah Barta, Simplify Commerce global lead, MasterCard. “We want to make life easier for businesses as they grow, and we look forward to working with Microsoft to bring safe, simple and secure electronic payments to more businesses around the world.”

“Today’s retailers require modern, integrated, secure and scalable payments solutions that grow with their business,” says Daniel Brown, Microsoft general manager, Dynamics AX R&D. “Simplify Commerce is a world-class, global offering that is highly secure and makes it easy for retailers to adopt quickly to drive seamless commerce and to develop deeper engagement with their customers.”

Simplify Commerce is just one of the ways MasterCard works to help businesses grow. Around the globe, MasterCard helps businesses manage cash flow and grow sales through a suite of solutions and advice designed to address the day-to-day demands of running a business – operating efficiently, getting paid quickly, simply and securely and easily paying for goods and services.