Google Checkout™ is a checkout process that you provide on your website to enable your customers to buy from you quickly and securely, using a single username and password. And once they make a purchase, you can use Checkout to charge their credit cards, process their orders, and receive payment in your bank account.

• Attract more leads. Buyers that use Google Checkout actively look to buy from merchants that offer it on their websites. If you use Google search advertising, you can help these potential buyers find you by displaying the Google Checkout badge on your search advertisements.
• Convert more leads into sales. A fast, secure checkout process helps persuade shoppers to buy on your site and buy more often.
• Lower sales processing costs. Process sales for free. You can process all your Checkout sales for free until 2008, and there are no monthly, setup or gateway fees – Checkout is entirely free.
• Protect yourself from fraud. Google Checkout’s fraud prevention tools stop invalid orders from reaching you. And Checkout’s Payment Guarantee policy helps protect you from chargebacks.

Google Checkout Instructions

Using Google Checkout with is incredibly easy. Following is our famous three step setup:

One: First of all login to your administration site. Click on the e-Commerce tab and then click Payment Options.

Two: Select the option to accept credit card transactions from your site. And then scroll down and choose google checkout from the available options.

“If you don’t have a google checkout account then now is probably a good time to set one up – Setup a Google Checout Account“

Three: Enter your Google Checkout account details into the available form fields. Now that you have entered your Google Checkout details your users will be able to click through to Google Checkout to make their purchase. (Please note that your Sandbox account and Production account have different Merchant IDs.)

F.A.Q

How do I configure Google Checkout with Shipping on my site to work?
All shipping is setup to work automatically. Just ensure that you have set your base country under the e-Commerce “Shop Settings”. You will need to “Set Shipping countries” from the Payment Options page before you sell anything using Google Checkout.

How do I issue a refund using WP e-Commerce & Google Checkout?
Click through to the purchase log page. Open the order by click on the order status. Select Refund action and select refund type(Full or Partial) and enter the amount if “Partial” is selected the Drop Down menu.

How do I keep people on my site so they don’t click through to Google Checkout?
You can’t. Hence the “checkout” in Google Checkout. Your customer will be sent back to your site(i.e. Products page) after the trasaction is completed.

How do I use Google Base?
You don’t need to setup anything particular. Every time you add a new product to your site then your Google Base list is automatically updated. You will need to login to your Google account before hand from the “Setting” button on the top-right corner of Add / Edit Products page in the admin section of your site.

How do I charge my order?
You can set automatical charging on, then everytime a customer has checked out, you will receive money if the transaction was successfull, if you want to charge your order manually, you can do that too, you can charge any amount you want as long as it is less than the total amount, then you can charge it again later for the rest.

How can I use Google Checkout to sell Digital Downloads like MP3 files or Videos?
Google Checkout ditital delivery feature is currently in development. This will be opened up shortly.