Checking out Google Checkout

Well, the title pretty much says it all.

Before you can add it, you have to set up Google Checkout account at Google. After you jump through the hoops over there, you can do the rest of the set-up below.

I have been reading the forums over at Bonanza.com and pretty much everyone agrees that one should offer their customers more than one payment method so I decided to add it.

As soon as I did that, within 4 days, someone used it. It kind of shocked me on how fast it was put to use. All I then had to do was to go to Google Checkout, login, and approve the charge. You can also set it up to automatically do that for you.

It is pretty easy to set up. All you have to do is login to Bonanza, go to the sell page, change your "Payment types accepted:" settings to include Google Checkout, click "Update Booth" and a page should show up asking for your Google Merchant ID and Your Google Merchant key. That page will also show you the URL you have to copy to the "API callback URL:" on the "Integration" page at Google Checkout.

To get the merchant ID and key, you would have to login to Google Checkout in another browser tab or window, click on "My Sales" in the upper right of the page, click on "Settings" on the upper left of that page, and finally, click on "Integration" on the lower left of that page. You should now be looking at your Google Merchant ID and Key. Copy the Merchant ID and key to the Bonanza page. Copy the API Callback URL from Bonanza to Google Checkout.

Make sure the "Call Back Contents" is set to "Notification as XML" and then hit the save button on the bottom. Also hit the save button on the Bonanza page.

It took me around 15 minutes to do it all but it was worth it. If your customers see that you have more than one way to pay, they are more likely to buy from you.

Now I am sitting back and seeing how this works out. I am hoping for the better.

Until next time, happy selling!!!