Ask HN: Who is using Google Checkout for their product?

15 points·techiferous··6 comments

I've heard someone suggest using Google Checkout for a SaaS product. I've never heard of this before. Is anyone using Google Checkout for SaaS?

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What i have heard from people is that using Google Checkout as the only option is significantly worse than using paypal as the only option. Providing the option between the two gives a marginally better conversion rate.

Check the discussion here http://www.invesp.com/blog/ecommerce/paypal-vs-google-checko...

That will change though with the webstore being released in a few days now. The webstore is based on google checkout, just like the android market.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

Incidentally, they're going to allow PayPal on Andriod Market shortly:

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10880639/1/google-paypal-set-...

But I do agree: Google Checkout needs an eBay to subsidize its growth.

We had google checkout and paypal as payment options. The difference was easily 10:1 in favor of paypal. People paying from overseas prefer paypal significantly.

We receive next to no support from Google for Checkout, too. It's more of a pain than it's worth, IMHO.

"Google Checkout is an alternative checkout flow you can use to process sales. While Checkout is designed primarily for transactions involving tangible and digital goods, you may also process transactions for services, subscriptions, and donations (if your organization is 501c3 tax-exempt). All transactions must abide by our content policies. Google Checkout cannot be used as a person to person money transfer service at this time."

http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer...

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