309 posts tagged google checkout

Paypal at present has over 120 million customers that use its services. Customers ranging from large companies who do thousands of transactions to individuals who just want to occasionally send and receive money on line. So how does paypal measure up to the banks we have been using for 100’s of years? Well, at first glance, Paypal may seem to be the cheaper option.

Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg and Jim Salters are attending this week's Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas. Here's Allen's second report from today's sessions including his notes on the panel he chaired this afternoon titled “Payments aren’t about Payments Anymore”.

Services for Charities & Non-profits Posted by David on May 19th, 2008 at 1:20pm As a non-profit and charity, I’m often on the look out for tools and services that I can use for the BMTG website. However, apart from various sites offering to create free websites, there seems little in the way of help for such groups.

People are noticing eBay Australia’s decision to make its PayPal subsidiary the only payment system for eBay purchases in Australia. This move mainly affects eBay users.  Today my local Mac user group has just switched from PayPal to Paymate, after the matter was raised internally.

Readers...wait a minute. I think I found a hack to the restriction levied by Google on its online payment processing service; Google Checkout. It just struck my little brain that this could be done. But let me check this myself before I throw light on my readers.

This link on Paypal customers and their payment preferences, ties in rather nicely with a theme we’ve had here on digitalmoneyworld in the last week. That of security, and in particular, data security with any online payment system.

eBay Refugees - So You Want Your Own Website? May 16, 2008 The internet buzz is that eBay sellers want to find a new home, a new place where they can pitch their tent and sell their wares.  Lots of folks exiting eBay have thought about creating their own website.  But before you pack your bags and

According to the twitter and newspeak I hear, spammers and scammers are getting evermore present even after the biggest spammer of all time was arrested. One has to use firefox to try and weed some of them out. If you belong to google groups, yahoo, facebook or where-ever, and lets face it, most of us do, you’ll get scam mail, lots of it.

Yesterday, I wasted an entire day trying to integrate Google Checkout into an exciting new web app for my employer, Soapy Co. This is how frustrated I was yesterday Days like these (wasted ones) are particularly frustrating (not to mention, psychologically damaging) and often appear magically when you’re left dealing with somebody else’s code - in this case Google Checkout’s PHP API.

The number of Adwords carrying the checkout symbol is on the increase. For those of you who don’t know, Google Checkout is Google’s answer to Paypal. The incentives for using the checkout go way beyond a secure transaction, as the presence of the Google Checkout badge has been know to increase the clickthrough rate by 23%.