subject: Micropayments--The Future Has Arrived [print this page] As technology advances so does the need for sound micropayments solutions and e-commerce platforms to support them. This technology has yet to reach a peak so the possibilities could be endless. One of the practices of e-commerce service providers are using today, is to incorporate the features and capability of processing micropayments or microtransactions (As some refer to them as) into their e-commerce platform. This combination of features has proven to be especially lucrative to the vendor's who sell software online.