Small businesses can now accept payments during live Microsoft Teams meetings with customers as part of a new partnership between Microsoft and GoDaddy.
In a statement, the company said its GoDaddy Payments’ commerce capabilities has been integrated within Microsoft Teams to help entrepreneurs better transact with customers and get paid for their services in the moment, as opposed to days or weeks later.
The company, which provides a range of services for entrepreneurs, is one of three commerce providers Microsoft has selected for the launch. It is expected that real-time, service-based businesses are most likely to benefit from the new feature. This could include a tutor providing online sessions, for example.
“We wanted to pull in the leaders in commerce to help make it easier for small businesses to get paid for their virtual services. GoDaddy has a very strong reputation with SMBs and gives us an opportunity to extend our great partnership with them. This payments integration is an exciting new growth opportunity for small businesses,” said Brenna Robinson, General Manager for SMBs, Modern Work at Microsoft.
To use the service, businesses must sync their GoDaddy Payments account so they can begin collecting and managing payments though Microsoft Teams’ new Payments app. The new feature is enabled for Teams on desktop and mobile devices and removes the need to send customers to a new app or payment website.
“We’ve been busy building out our commerce platform to enable small businesses to accept payments anywhere, so this expansion to Teams’ meetings is a natural extension of that,” said President of GoDaddy Commerce Osama Bedier.
“We share a passion with Microsoft for empowering small business and are excited about partnering to help entrepreneurs transact in new ways. Microsoft Teams is just the start,” he added.
Other launches for the platform in the last few months include the integration of Tap to Pay on the GoDaddy Mobile App and a new Commerce 360 solution which was introduced in partnership with Worldpay from FIS. GoDaddy Payments will be available within Microsoft Teams in the coming weeks, the company said.
