Archives Tag: Google Checkout
Google Checkout Subscriptions
Google Checkout is finally launching the subscriptions feature, a long-sought after feature from hundreds and thousands of Checkout users — including myself. This feature announcement comes nearly three years after the initial launch of Google Checkout. The developer documents are ready to use and you can already start using this new feature. There are both [...]
Full StoryFedEx Shipping Discounts Using Checkout
It’s been really quiet on the Google Checkout front for a while, but it’s time to come out from hiding and make an announcement. FedEx is offering discounted shipping rates for merchants using Google Checkout. Discounts up to 21% off. To learn more and take advantage of FedEx’s discounted shipping rates, click here to learn [...]
Full StoryCredit Card Aliases for Google Checkout … to come?
I have been using Google Checkout more and more recently — with good reason — as it’s made my life easier to not have to create logins every time I want to buy something.
With the big move from Los Angeles to New York City, I’m still buying quite a bit of stuff. Furniture, office equipment, bedroom furniture, all that kind of fun stuff.
But on the side, I have been trying out the Auctions area of Overstock.com. I recently purchased Ocean’s Twelve through Overstock.com Auctions using Google Checkout. But now I’m running into a small issue.
Checkout the Analytics Integration
Merchants are able to track their Checkout orders through Google Analytics now. This was released not too long ago, but here’s a small breakdown of it. Google Analytics enables a merchant to understand how visitors interact with the merchant’s website. Google Analytics also helps the merchant to identify navigational components that promote or inhibit conversions to sales, enabling the merchant to optimize ad campaigns and website content for
Full StoryWill Google Ever Stop?
Doesn’t look like Google is going to fall short of throwing away more money. As I went to Google.com a few minutes ago, I noticed they added an image to encourage users to start using Google Checkout. Google just hopes it will pay off by giving away all this free cash to people just to try to influence the market. PayPal already owns a greater share of the market and so do other on-line payment processors like 2Checkout. Google Checkout still has a long ways to go before becoming a major player in the industry.
Full StoryeBay Adds Buyer Protection for PayPal Users
In the never-ending battle of eBay’s PayPal and Google’s Checkout, eBay seems to be stepping up to the plate again. eBay banned the use of Google’s Checkout system a while back, but they’re really trying to encourage more users to use PayPal even though Checkout is illegal to use. “PayPal is the safest way to pay on eBay,” eBay Senior Vice President Rob Chestnut said in a statement. Shares of eBay were down more than 1% at $29.44 Wednesday; Google was up more than 1% to $491.29. eBay’s efforts really don’t seem to be helping though. eBay needs to do something more drastic to stay on top — even though Google is wasting away a lot of money trying to get on top.
Full StoryCheckout for a $10 Bonus
Google is still trying to push Checkout on consumers. Let’s do a little recap of how Checkout is actually doing:
July 6th 2006: eBay bans Google Checkout
July 19th 2006: Google tries to lure AdWords Advertisers to use Checkout
August 10th 2006: Free T-Shirts for using Checkout
October 3rd 2006: Google offers free money ($10 & $30) for using Checkout
October 5th 2006: Google releases easy integration for osCommerce and Zen Cart
November 8th 2006: Free order processing for the holidays
November 21st 2006: More free cash for using Checkout
December 6th 2006: Free order processing for the whole year? Sure!
December 12th 2006: Checkout has a few hiccups…delays orders
Google Checkout Code Reloaded
The Google Checkout sample code page has been updated, so check it out! We now provide sample code that demonstrates complete Google Checkout Level 2 integration for these 5 platforms: Windows Classic ASP (COM), .NET, PHP, Java 1.5, and Java 1.4 The sample code for each platform is managed as an open source project, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, and hosted on Google Code’s project hosting. The Google Checkout team has released some more code samples as stated above that will help developers get on track with the Checkout system. These great code tips are going to be really helpful for people just starting to get involved with the Checkout process.
Full StoryCheckout Delays Your Order
According to Mercury News, JR.com is having some issues with Google Checkout. The New York online retailer is having an unpredicted amount of sales this holiday season due to the recent promotion being offered by Google Checkout. Google is offering $10 off any order of $30 or more (without shipping costs). Google is doing this as a huge effort to become a huge competitor to PayPal. While PayPal is primarily — in my opinion — geared towards consumers rather than larger companies, Google still feels the need to enter that market. Google Checkout is only a payment processor and does not actually store your cash (as far as I know). I’ve never sold anything using Google Checkout, only paid for things. So JR.com’s customers are experiencing delays in their orders because there are so many orders going through the Google Checkout system.
Full StoryNo Checkout Fees Through 2007
As you may know, for every $1 you spend on AdWords, you can process $10 of Google Checkout sales for free. Just in time for the holidays, we’re giving you even more by processing your Google Checkout sales for free through the end of 2007! Here’s how it works: From November 8, 2006 through December 31, 2007, we’ll process your Checkout transactions for free, even if you aren’t an AdWords
Full StoryFREE Cash Giveaway!
That’s right, Google is giving away FREE CASH! You might think there are strings attached, but no, there are not any strings. Here’s the deal: Click here to get to the page Search for what you want Use Google Checkout to make the purchase Cash in on the instant rewards from Google. Get $10 off a $30 purchase Get $20 off a $50 purchase Pretty easy isn’t it…yeah and I’ve done it a few times. Google isn’t going to be building any buyer loyalty from me for these discounts or from many other people, but they sure are throwing away millions of dollars on trying to do so.
Full StoryPersonalize the Checkout process
Google Checkout is making it even easier to customize the process of checking out for the users and the merchants. With an added feature such as e-mail voicemails for invoicing, it creates a unique customized response for the consumer. I’m not aware of any other processing platform that offers this feature right now. Maybe 2Checkout and Paypal will hop on the band wagon at some point, but Google seems to be the first to offer this server.
Full StoryCheckout the Free Processing for the Holidays
Checkout is offering free processing for all its merchants during the holiday season. This is just another incentive to offer its merchants to encourage them to use the Checkout platform. Paypal, 2Checkout, and Authorize.net still have a huge share of the market compared to Checkout. With every bit of encouragement, Google wants to bring more clients and merchants to the platform to start giving it more of a brand image that is recognized and accepted across the world. Google entered into a market that was new to them and they need time to become a player in the industry.
Full StoryThe Checkout Coupon Craze
Google Checkout is now offering custom coupons which will allow for merchants to offer special promotions with a specific amount of $$ off the final price or a percentage off the final price. This is a great move for Checkout because it will open up a whole new side to the merchant end of things and will allow for merchants to customize their checkout process even more. This is something you don’t see in a lot of other processors. Checkout Blog
Full StoryDo Not Donate Through Checkout
From a SEW report, Google Checkout does not allow for people to accept donations. PayPal clearly does allow it, but Google’s policies right now are that merchants may only use Checkout for tangible goods or a service. Donations are not allowed under the current TOS. This does pose a problem for users of Checkout.
Full StoryCheckout Integrates with osCommerce and Zen Cart
The Checkout team released some modules today that allows for easy integration into Zen Cart and osCommerce, two very popular ecommerce platforms. Download osCommernce module Zen Cart module Discussion osCommerce forums Zen Cart forums Thanks Jacob.
Full StoryIt Pays to Checkout
As more and more stores across the Internet use Google Checkout, online shopping becomes faster and more secure. Even better, whatever you buy totaling $30 or more (before tax and shipping) at participating stores will automatically earn a $10 bonus. Now, one login lets you buy from lots of different stores, and also gives you a $10 bonus each time you buy. Look for the “$10 off” Google Checkout button when you’re shopping online. It’s the sign that guarantees your transaction will be faster, safer — and $10 cheaper. Checkout Google is trying to break their way into the credit card processing market and the payment system market since they have such a small percentage right now. These incentives will encourage stores to move completely to Checkout or even just add it as another payment option.
Full StoryTime to Wave Goodbye to Froogle
The link to Froogle disappeared not too long ago from the Google homepage. This was a pre-emptive move for Google as they had bigger plans in mind for their product search network. Froogle is slowly being turned into a greater Google Base. With Google Base gaining activity, it will be an even larger push for Google Checkout because of the integration between Google Base and Google Checkout.
Full StoryGoogle University is Back In Session
Google Checkout has some cool stuff lined up for this fall semester for everyone. Head over to Google Checkout to checkout some of the hot new products they’re offering with some killer promo codes. …we’re also offering $10 off every purchase of $30 or more at these participating stores… Checkout Blog
Full StoryCheckout Upgrades
Google Checkout has become a hot topic of discussion lately because Google entered the competitive field of money processing online. As a direct competitor with companies such as 2Checkout or Paypal, Google has their hands full to make this the “better” product of choice. Google rolled out some new features this week for Google Checkout:
Full StoryFraud Being Taken Seriously
Google Checkout is just as deceptible to fraud as any other shopping cart system out there. With that in mind, Google has to take fraud very seriously in order to be any kind of a player in the transaction business. And we supplement our systems with a dedicated team of risk specialists — people who manually review high-risk transactions to minimize your chances of shipping products to fraudulent buyers. We manually review a very small percentage of transactions, and we take the potential effect of this review time on order processing very seriously. Google doesn’t take fraud lightly, so neither should we. I think Google Checkout has a great potential, it just really needs to stay on track and become known as a primary player in the transaction shopping business. Just give it time.
Full StoryCheckout the Free T-Shirts!
People always ask, what makes Google tick? There are two key elements: our ongoing commitment to building great technology that empowers people like you — and of course our passion for free T-shirts. Today, to thank everyone using Google Checkout to buy stuff online, we thought we’d combine the two. Everyone who buys something for $20 or more through Google Checkout all day today gets a free T-shirt. So find something you want to buy, enjoy faster checkout online — and make room in the drawer for your new apparel (via) Google’s offering free shirts man, that’s sweet! It almost makes me want to just try Google Checkout to see how it works and so I can get a free t-shirt.
Full StoryGoogle AdWords Users Encouraged to Checkout
Just got this in the mail (well, email, not physical mail…do they even do that anymore?) But anyway, they’re now doing a little enticing for advertising and processing to go side-by-side in order to help encourage advertisers to start using the Checkout system. Dear AdWords Advertiser, We’d like you to meet a new service. It’s Google Checkout™, a checkout process that you integrate with your website, enabling our customers
Full StoryPayPal Payments for AdSense … or Maybe Checkout Instead?
As of right now, the AdSense program does not allow for PayPal payments for the monthly earnings. In short, Google does not have a payment storage system right now, such as PayPal. Google now has Google Checkout which will allow for consumers to manage one account and buy products through different eStores, but it doesn’t allow you to ’store’ money there — as far as I know.
Full StoryeBay Bans Google Checkout
As expected, eBay is not playing nice with the latest release of Google Checkout because it’s in direct competition with eBay’s child company, PayPal. Paypal is a well known payment processor online, quite possibly the most widely used in the world, and Google Checkout would be interfering with that market. Google Checkout is offering these services for free which is quickly drawing merchants in and starting the
Full StoryTime to Check Out the New Checkout
Google Checkout was released today. This new service by Google is the start of which will be a larger push for selling to the wide Google database of users. Checkout is a global service which will allow users to have a profile, linked to your Google Account, and then login to a website which has the Checkout integrated into the website’s billing system, then purchase things easily.
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