Pine Labs, a merchant platform company, opens its API of an android based in-store payment platform to developers. This API will enable the developers to build the value added solutions and applications for small & medium businesses. The android in-store payment APIs will be housed in the Pine Labs Developer portal. The company also announced that there will be a dedicated application store for house developers’ apps.

Vicky Bindra, CEO of Pine Labs says, “Asia Pacific is the fastest growing developer region in the world. Analysts have predicted that the developer community in India will be the largest in the world in five years, surpassing that of the United States. We would like these developers to solve the interesting fintech challenges from this part of the world, using our APIs. We have, therefore, opened up our in-store and online payments APIs to the developer community.”

“We are committed to building an ecosystem that enables the co-creation of innovative products in the fintech space, powering merchants’ businesses offline and online,” Vicky adds.

The API are easy to integrate and offers a wide range of options for developers, in the area of online & offline payments, customer feedback capture, travel & ticketing, ride sharing, and food & e-commerce delivery. This APIs also allows the developers to build customized customer focused solutions.

Asia Pacific is the fastest growing developer region in the world. Analysts have predicted that the developer community in India will be the largest in the world in five years, surpassing that of the United States

In May 2019, Pine Labs had opened payment gateway APIs, which accept payments through multiple payment modes. Together, the in-store payment Android APIs and online payment APIs will help millions of developers to move fast to create and monetize their fintech app.

Sanjeev Kumar, CTO of Pine Labs says, “Payments is emerging as the most integral part of all online and offline businesses, with the rise of smartphones and increasing acceptance of digital payments. A collaborative developer ecosystem will provide the much-needed impetus to fintech in Asia. We want developers to ‘plumb-and-play’ and build innovative solutions for merchants, powered by an easy and secure payment platform.”