New! Free Transaction Processing Until the End of 2007
From November 8, 2006 through December 31, 2007, Google Checkout merchants can process their Google Checkout sales for free until the end of 2007. Learn more

http://checkout.google.com/seller/fees.html

Now that is a bargain at twice the price.......

Very Nice, looks like their really dedicated in knocking Paypal off it's happy perch.

Now if someone can explain to me why Google Checkout is a good thing for hosting service companies in particular, I'd appreciate that.

I really think that Checkout program is a bit frustrating and complicated enough. Google so far has not succeeded on any other market other than search.

I think that Google Checkout "could be" a good thing. However, I don't see it going anywhere for quite some time.

Not only do I think the process of setting it up per their guidelines, is frustrating enough, but I think their guidelines are just a bunch of hoops to jump through, all for the sake of 1. Offering a payment option (that I must say is far behind PayPal from the start). 2. Google wanting branding on your pages, even the ones that Google Checkout is not offered.

Generally speaking, in regards to the above, they basically want you to put their logo all over your site. If you offer the option on a product/service, you have to display their button. If you don't offer their option for a particular product or service...you have to display their "Google Checkout Not available" button on that page. To add to the frustration, you cannot have the "Not Available" button on more than 5% of your pages....this means that you HAVE TO offer Google Checkout on at least 95% of your pages.

We'll be sticking with PayPal and 2CO thank you very much

Wow, Mark, I wasn't even aware of all those limitations...
That only make their positioning worse in my mind.

Best,

here are the guidelines on their site:
http://checkout.google.com/seller/checkout_buttons.html

Too many things going on at once... I am not in the right state of mind right now to delve into details.

You know, I like google and the free things they do for a long as they do them, and looked forward to checking out their program, but was very disapointed at what they had set up.

Yeah, I don't like how a lot of it is set up. I'm sticking with PayPal.

I plan to set up Google checkout later this week. Since it is free untill end of 2007, it is good time to try it out.

What's funny is that I have not seen a single merchant using Google Checkout. I wonder if Google is going to try and create an Ebayish site soon as well...

I read of a few hosts using it. It's hard to get quick widespread adoption when you have old, well established competitors.

I just hope this prompts a price war amongst all such processors and merchants benefit from this. Finally, someone out there to give a fight to PayPal.

They seem to only let you check US or UK during sign up. Are those the only two countries they're supporting right now?