Paypal held a monopoly, back in the days when eBay was king,   allowing folks to do cash transations online no matter where you lived. People could buy a Mr. T lunch box from someone in Germany and send them a payment from Australia. Both parties had paypal accounts that held their bank and credit card info.

Sometimes that can be a hassle and turn-off customers. Sometimes you want to send invoices to your clients but not deal with a merchant account either. That’s where Google Checkout comes to the rescue, it’s set up to be able to take credit cards, but doesn’t require same set up that Paypal requests. Google Checkout can stand alone as a simple shopping cart or can be integrated into more sophisticated shopping carts like osCommerce. This is a list of all the 3rd party software it supports. To get a better idea of how this works, especially if you have a product bases business, here’s a walk-through.

If you are a service based  business,  you can use Google Checkout to help with invoicing. I find that it makes my customer’s lives easier, I send them an invoice, they get it in their email and with the click of a button, they can pay their invoice.  It’s very simple and straightforward.

How have your experiences with Paypal and/or Google Checkout been? Do you prefer one over the other?

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