Google Checkout

I was suitably impressed by the recent offering with Google checkout , that i had to offer it on our ad9 store , and Google are offering not only their well trusted name but no transaction fees to pay until 2008 , then a very special deal for their advertisers - see below .

The trend for easier and safer ecommerce for small businesses and startups has jumped forward several steps with Google's checkout facility , now it is becoming even easier for even novices to set up an effective internet website .

What is it - for newbies ? Google Checkout is a way to accept credit and debit cards all over the world , like Paypal and Worldpay etc , they process the card securely for you , all you need is a website with buy now buttons and you can join the 1000s of webshop owners selling without a bank merchant account.

Chief Benefits

Free processing for a year , then very low trasaction fee rates and exemptions for it's Adwords advertisers !

For each £1 a shop merchant pays Google for advertising on Adwords , they will receive £10 worth of sales exemption on their checkout . Also merchants will get a special attention grabbing Google Badge displayed under their advert to let the potential customer know the shop is offering Google for fast and secure purchases .

How to Add It To Your Web Shop

Adwords offer development help with free APIs if you want to develop your own shopping cart solution , or for the quickest route there are more and more third party carts offering GC checkout .

All our eshops use RomanCart , which allows the GC .

How It Works

The Google Cart is a seperate shoping cart hosted on the Google secure servers , when a shopper buys from your cart they will see a Google shopping trolley graphic , which they can click to visit and pay at Google . Google then processes the order , and includes fraud checking on the cardholder . Google then pays the merchant .

Where To Go

Visit the Google Checkout sign up and information pages .

Will We Be Using Them?

For Sure! Having advertised on Adwords for over 3 years on our network of sites we see the benefit of combining these technologies . It is an olive branch , Google never ceases to impress!