The Ottawa-based e-commerce firm has reached a new agreement with Amazon in which Shopify merchants who use Shopify Payments can add an Amazon Pay button with ease; when customers use the function, Shopify handles more of the transaction than it did under a previous deal between the two companies, sources told The Information. (The Information)

Talking point: Over the past few months, for Amazon Pay transactions involving Shopify merchants, Amazon has started sending buyer’s names, addresses and billing information to Shopify, leaving the latter’s staff to handle most of the merchant support. The financial services giant Stripe continues to process these payments, but now does so on behalf of Shopify. The new arrangement means Amazon sees less order information than before, but Amazon said the deal lets it better serve customers. Shopify, which declined The Information’s request for comment, will fully transition to the new system for U.S. merchants on March 18. Last year, the two companies integrated services with Buy With Prime, with Shopify processing payments and Amazon handling deliveries.