It’s not often that I have a buyer use Google Checkout, although I know many sellers claim that it’s nearly as popular as PayPal for them.
A recent transaction, the first in over a year since eBid blocked acceptance of it for merchants registered on their sites other than the UK & US ones, raised my [...]

In mid-March, I took a brief look at Google CheckOuts’s new beta Subscriptions service, leaving the main discussion to our members in the BuildaSkill Forums.
Later in the month (and just discovered) Russ Jones at Payment Views also had a brief look at the topic and service.  His blog post elicited rather more responses, though still [...]

Simultaneously catching up with PayPal and stealing a march on other service providers, Google Checkout have moved their Subscriptions feature from alpha-testing into beta.
Stated as being one of their most requested features, Google software Engineer Andrew Cunningham posted on the Checkout Blog that -
… if you’re already comfortable building your own carts using Checkout, you’re [...]

Google software engineer Ed Davisson has posted news on the Google Checkout blog of a new integration module for the payments system that will relieve many e-tailers of a major headache.
The payments branch of the search company have launched an all-new self installer module for the popular open-source shopping cart osCommerce, which will hopefully lead [...]

Have you ever considered how safe your Online Payments account is?
I’m not talking about the vagaries of Buyer and Seller “Protection” policies issued by the payment companies, but rather about the simplest and most basic requirement – keeping out unauthorised users.
It’s something that’s been on my mind a fair bit this year, particularly with the [...]

October 20th is the start date of eBay’s Paperless Payments policy for the USA site.
If you missed the original announcements, you can find them in our eBay Payments & Shipping forum, where you can also catch up on what’s been discussed by BuildaSkill members.
In summary, from today, only PayPal, ProPay, and Merchant Service credit card [...]

There’s just seven days left to get a $10.00 bonus when you use Google Checkout on Buy.com according to a link in the Google Checkout Promotions centre for registered users. Was this offer in place before the controversial eBay deal that Buy managed to pull off? When the offer expires on June 30th, will it be replaced with a similar one from PayPal?