Digital Chocolate, the cross-platform social gaming company, has just announced that it has chosen UltimatePay, a product by Playspan Inc, for all of its games distributed outside of social networks.

COO of Digital Chocolate, Jason Loia, explained that Playspan’s intergration and payment methods were what led to the choice, “…decided on PlaySpan because of its superior coverage of payment methods and countries and its easy integration.”

PlaySpan provides services such as global payments processing, subscriptions, and microtransacations (for use with virtual goods). The platform includes fraud prevention, customer service tools, online reports, and analytics.

Digital Chocolate has well over 100 apps available on the App Store including favorites like Shaolin Jump and Chocolate Shop Frenzy. The company also works with 200 web and mobile channel partners in 80 different countries.

Playspan Inc., a subsidary of Visa, provides a monetization platform for content providers. UlimatePay also has a game card, the Ultimate Game Card, that can be used as a pre-paid card for Playspan’s supported games. The Ultimate Game Card is sold in over 50,000 locations in North America.

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