Google Payments

[Toon]

Google unveils UK payments system

Search giant Google has launched its payment service, Google Checkout, in the UK.

Checkout will compete with both the mainstream card processing services used by many online merchants and auction site eBay's Paypal service.

It is designed to boost Google's core money-maker, the selling of online adverts, by offering cheap order processing for its advertisers.

Until now, Checkout has only been available to US buyers and sellers.

"The starting point is our core products," said Google's UK consumer marketing chief, Obi Felton.

Checkout "is the conclusion of the transaction cycle" of consumers finding retailers through searches and advertising.

Google was unwilling to say when the service might expand into the rest of Europe.

[Mailno]

you can get quite good hosting options for blogger through this now

[unome]

Ive used google checkout and it works fine :-)

[zumojuice]

It was about time. Hopefully more sites will use either Paypal or Google. It is a lot more friendly for cross country sites of those just starting up and that look a bit dodgy.

[tommylogic]

I've set up google checkout on a few sites. Nifty feature that will invoice a customer. Google Invoicing

[Acuity]

Using this

would it be possible for someone to go to my clients website fill out a form for their products etc which then emails me....

then have google checkout automatically email them?

does anyone have any links to a gd tutorial on setting up simple e-commerce through paypal or google?

[Cwilk]

Just dropping in.

[tommylogic]

Originally Posted by ACuity

Using this

would it be possible for someone to go to my clients website fill out a form for their products etc which then emails me....

then have google checkout automatically email them?

does anyone have any links to a gd tutorial on setting up simple e-commerce through paypal or google?

That's essentially what the Google Invoicing feature is all about. Check out their demos.