Hi Guys, I'm thinking about using Google Checkout. I just wanted to see what experiences any of you have had with Google Checkout so far? What kind of rate do they charge? Can they handle recurring payments? -bmack
Has anyone here used it yet? With paypal being so ubiquitous, it seems like their service is hardly being used.
Google Checkout seems like a scaled-down version of 2Checkout and it is supposed to be just a shopping cart so it does not seems to handle recurring payments. You find more information here : https://checkout.google.com/seller/why.html
Too new, too few users, and right now I don't feel like being a guiny pig for them. I also require the recurring payments for my sites and since they don't offer it, can't do it!
Yes maybe wait a little longer when they have got more BIGGER sites using it. The BIGGER the sites use it the lower there fees and more features will begin to produce into the system. I agree
i am in the process of implementing it on one of my sites. Will comment after i've test driven it for some time.
Although Google Checkout allows a larger number of countries to buy from you via the credit card, it for some reasons decided to leave out 'Singapore' from the list and permits more traditionally high-risk countries in. http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48115
The reason is not for the high-risk. There'are many more risk country in the list. Probably other reasons such as goverment.
Well, probably so. Our government definitely welcomes Google and anyone who wants to deal with them. I understand how Google Checkout does not accept vendors from Singapore but customer is another thing since it has nothing to do with the local government. Besides, there is a physical Google office in Singapore. The strange thing is that in http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43059&query=singapore&topic=&type= , Singapore is one of the country Google Checkout vendors can ship to .
I use Google right now because they are offering a zero percent processing deal for merchants till the end of the year. I process a lot of large payments in the $x,xxx range, and with PayPal charging 3% I'm averaging savings of about $50/order. Not much but definately increases profit margin. They let you generate buy buttons, and send invoices. Clients have to create an account in order to pay, and there is no virtual terminal for the merchant to charge clients directly. There is no recurring feature either. After an order is placed merchant must manually login to panel and click charge, or the card will not be charged and theres a 72 hour window to do so. So taking a 3 day weekend away from the office is not gonna happen. They are off to a good start but have a long way to go.
I have to agree, I love the service. No fee's easy to use. The only bad thing is there isnt a button to payout! Instead you have to wait 2 days for your money to send to your bank not counting how long it take your bank to process it. They have a way to go but big sites are using it, like name cheap, buy.com etc. full list: http://www.google.com/checkout/m.html
Google Checkout... Is there anything Google isn't going to try and make money off? I wouldn't really be interested in it, as Paypal would complete any payment processing I may need done to a satisfactory level. As the saying goes, if it isn't broken, don't fix it.
Its always better to have several alternatives, if PayPal is doing maintenance why wait when you can charge a client. Also why pay a 2.9% + $0.30 fee when you can charge them for free. As the saying goes, a penny saved is a penny earned
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Well, the 'free fee' from Google Checkout does not last forever. I believe it is up to the end of the 2006 and after which it would be 2% + $0.20 per transaction which i guess is still cheaper than Paypal. It is probably a way of pulling in customers. Google Checkout is just not as flexible and only supports credit card purchases from a limited number of countries. Paypal on the other hand supports paypal to paypal payments which allows me to not lose from the forex fees and exchange rates since I am paying from my existing US balance. Paying from a credit card would mean I have to incur more fees on my end. If they are going to be run with the same rules as how they run Adsense, it would not be long before you see people coming back with frozen and terminated accounts. It looks like Google wants to rule the world and place its own brand of politics in cyberspace.
When PayPal was launched it wasent half as good as Google Checkout is now. If Google can add mroe toosl to help merchants like a virtual terminal, easy order forms, easy integration with scripts, recurring billing, allow merchants to keep money in account, allow merchants to purchase things with the money in the account, and others. If Google can further their services with the above and more then theres no doubt in my mind that PayPal's monopoly over internet payment processing will come to a swift end.