By Matty Wilson
Not happy with world domination, Google are now making waves in the e-commerce industry by offering merchants a payment processing system.
Users can choose to partially integrate by passing the customer over at the point of sale – the user can then use the Google Merchant centre for all post transaction administration.
Customers do need a Google Account; however the payment page cleverly incorporates all the information needed for a new signup making the process fairly transparent.
As an incentive to get everyone on board, Google are offering Free Transaction Processing until 2008 and after that it will be 1.5% + £0.15 per transaction, although if you are an AdWords customer then you can waver £10’s worth of fees for every £1 you spend with AdWords. They are also offering customers £10 off if they spend over £30 on a Google checkout purchase.
If you are interested in creating a Google Checkout based system or would like to add it to your existing e-commerce solution why not find out more?
