Earlier this week, we announced buyable Pins, a simple and secure way to buy your favorite products on Pinterest. When building buyable Pins, we focused on making the technology easy and fun to use from a mobile device, but even more important was building security right into the feature.
How does it work?
We’ll be working with our primary partner Stripe, as well as Braintree, two industry-leading payment providers who’ve been protecting people’s information for years. We’ll be working with both Stripe and Braintree to vault credit cards.
Once a Pinner enters their credit card information in the Pinterest app, we send it via an encrypted channel to the providers, who store it inside a secure vault. The merchant then charges the credit card from the vault through their existing payment processor and lets Pinterest know that the order was successful.
Security and trust are incredibly important to us. We chose to work with these providers for their experience and the trusted relationships they have with the payment processors who work with the world’s best merchants.
This is just the beginning. With this technology and design, we’ll be able to work with merchants of all sizes and help Pinners everywhere discover and buy the products they love.
Announcing buyable Pins to Pinners and partners at Pinterest HQ.
Stay tuned for more posts from the buyable Pins engineering team. If you’re interested in tackling new engineering challenges as we roll out buyable Pins, join our team!
Wendy Lu is an engineer on the iOS team.
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