Microsoft Pay Support Now Allows Users To Pay Bills & Invoices Within Outlook
Despite the absence of an executable mobile application, Microsoft Corporation is showing their extra efforts in appending an online payment feature in Outlook. On Monday (4th June 2018), they officially announced that soon a payment service will be consolidated in Microsoft Outlook. This will provide a smart way to bill pay as well as invoices into emails.
More About The Outlook Payment Service
The Microsoft Pay Support enables users to settle down the invoice payments in Outlook itself. Suppose a Microsoft user receives an invoice mail from an organization through email. This invoice will be settled down immediately by using Microsoft Pay within Outlook. However, it is mandatory for both the payment parties to use MS Outlook feature.
Adaptive Cards are used to support Microsoft Pay in MS Outlook. These cards are built into O365 tenant, which is defined by Microsoft as enabling developers to generate a rich interactive text with conversation. In a blog post, Microsoft Corp. stated that ‘End users could approve the expense comments or reports on a GitHub issue straight in the Outlook team chats or emails.
With the announcement of Microsoft pay in Outlook, Microsoft also notified its customers that they can work with Adaptive Cards. This will enable business’s process and services, sending notifications to benefit themselves by attaching adaptive cards in emails, team chats, and bots. These Adaptive cards are available in web-based Outlook client under Actionable Message section and soon they will be supported in Windows Outlook 2016 also. Initially, the MS Outlook payment service will be supported by :
- Billing Services: Zuora
- Payment Processors: Stripe and Braintree
- Invoicing Servies: FreshBooks, Intuit, Invoice2Go, Sage, Wave, and Xero
Just An Information – The Microsoft Pay support technology is programmed by the use of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) markup language. This language is used in the email body, comprising of full support for HTTPS endpoints for tackling the actions.
Observational Verdict
There is no idea about the fact that how many users will get engaged with Microsoft Pay. But, it is believed that the total number of users to compete for services like Apple Wallet, Samsung Pay, and others, with exclusion PayPal Inc., are low. Exploring their own services is one-step forward by Microsoft to encourage the trending technology. However, it seems unlikely to modify the entire payment pattern.
