Free Google Checkout!
Although I don’t currently have a use for a store checkout system I couldn’t pass on sharing this interesting tid-bit. Google Checkout has announced that it will be offered as a free service through December 31, 2007!
That’s right, Inside Google just reported that Google doesn’t plan on making any money from it’s checkout service offering it for free, no processing fees, no nothing. No credit card fees, that’s right, Google will eat it’s credit card fees. That’s one smart way to ensure everyone in the world comes around to at least try your service out.
Paypal, which is the dominant online paying fixture, charges the normal processing fees to those using business accounts and those people accepting payments via paypal with credit card. It’s a pain and you’d think with all the automation that fee would be phased from a percentage to a standard, of something small like 10 cents.
Good for you Google, if I find a need for some type of checkout, I’ll for sure find a way to add this killer Google product in.
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Time: December 17, 2006, 11:45 pm
[...] Finally all you have to do is pay for it. You can use a credit card, and some places are even letting you use paypal to easily pay with a paypal account. And now with Google announcing no fee Google Checkout we imagine that a lot of places will try and make the switch to save in the coming year. [...]