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Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by simonk »

diminoten wrote: post #64
NLPsajeeth wrote: post #58

Although Google Checkouts is shutting down, Google Wallet for Digital Goods still lives on ( https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449 ). It offers pretty much the best pricing on the net (most favorable of 5% or 1.9% + 30c (USD) per transaction is automatically applied.) and works in way more countries and currencies than Google Checkout ever did ( https://developers.google.com/commerce/wallet/digital/…

I feel like no one actually read the submission. Google Checkout and Google Wallet overlapped too much, and Wallet won out. If your website uses Checkout, just replace it with Wallet, and move on with your life.

Wallet doesn't have payment processing except for items on Google Play.

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by nahname »

nivloc wrote: post #108
nahname wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this for e-commerce? I just suspected you guys didn't seriously consider e-commerce since you don't do pre-auth and settlement. It being illegal to charge the customer before shipping in some countries and such.

They do: https://support.stripe.com/questions/can-i-authorize-a-charg...

This is a very recent change, if I am not mistaken. Seven days is a very short window.

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by sounds »

_Lemon_ wrote: post #20
thehodge wrote: post #10

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Someone suggested Bitcoin today, as a merchant, what would you recommend to start accepting it? a third party service?

Definitely a third party service. Then place the bumper sticker "No Bitcoins on our servers" somewhere :) I integrated MtGox and BitPay. Compared to Google Checkout (XML mania) and PayPal (documentation drama) they take about 5 seconds to implement (test is another thing entirely). I went with MtGox in the end since it was cheaper. I was then happy to offer a 3% discount to make up for the fees users got stung with p…

Just wanted to public thank you for detailing your experience as a merchant, setting up with MtGox and BitPay.

Just curious, would you give BitPay a second look?

Obligatory: I'm currently using MtGox and haven't really had the time to try BitPay, but the MtGox legal issues could be a reason to need a second option.

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by simonk »

dangrossman wrote: post #59
droopyEyelids wrote: post #47

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Looks like Google partnered(?) with Braintree, Shopify and Freshbooks-- like you can get a discount for transitioning. Considering how many people mention just moving to Stripe on this thread, I wonder what sort of hoops those three had to jump through to get their names on the page. Also I wonder what part of the process led Google to choose those three over their competitors. It seems like Stripe would have been a…

Stripe is only available in North America, and probably lacks the headcount to handle thousands or more new merchants in a short time. Braintree's more than twice as old, more than twice as big, and operates in US/UK/AU/CA/EU. Recommending Stripe would mean sending many of Google Checkout's merchants somewhere that can't help them. Google Checkout, like many third-party processors, is heavily used by merchants outsid…

Google Checkout was US/UK only.

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by rgbrenner »

rgbrenner wrote: post #104
greggman wrote: post #95

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Um, did you read the post or just the headline. Aren't they just replacing Google Checkout with Google Wallet and isn't Google Wallet better than Google Checkout? It sounds like an upgrade to me. What am I missing? Is it just a messaging problem? If they had instead said "We're renaming Google Checkout to Google Wallet. We're introducing API v2. API v1 is deprecated and will be turned off in 6 months so upgrade your…

No, that is not accurate. Google Checkout processes payments for the merchant, and Google deposits the funds in the merchant's bank account. With the new system, Google has an API to give you the users information, but the merchant must have some way of processing the payment. So these two are not the same at all. I can tell you for my ecommerce site, I intend to drop Google Wallet altogether.. After the numerous Fro…

"Google's implementation of Checkout was flawed from the start (esp how they handled/treated merchants)"

I don't mean this to sound like Google treated its merchants badly.. because that's not the case. Google was ok, and I don't have any bad stories to tell. But several of their policies were not pro-merchant (some outright anti-merchant)... it was as if the entire thing (from the interface, the policies, etc) was put together by someone who had never used another payment processor in their life. It was like someone just sat down one day, decided how it should work, and did it.. without bothering to understand what any of their competitors were doing.

I don't know how true that is.. but that is what it seemed like from the beginning.

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by dennisgorelik »

martindale wrote: post #113

This title is inaccurate. Google Checkout is being upgraded to Google Wallet, which provides the _exact_ same functionality with more features.

Google merged Checkout with Wallet over a year ago. That was unpleasant, but bearable. This time Google is killing what's left of Google Checkout: API and subsriptions. That's much worse.

To add an insult to injury, Google uses Doublespeak, so now we have to guess about what's really going to happen.

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by Blara »

astrodust wrote: post #116
jemeshsu wrote: post #102

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Apparently this strategy seems to work also for hardware. Look at Samsung.

Samsung is focusing on a much smaller number of devices than they used to. Yes, they have more than Apple, but they also spend way more on advertising to make up for it. Instead of hundreds of phones, they have maybe a dozen now that they actively promote. Right now I can't leave the house without being bombarded by Samsung advertising, they're in some kind of feverish campaign over their new Note phone-tablet-thing.

And TV:s, fridges, computers... They manufacture more than just phones you know.

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Post by mh- »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #31
petercooper wrote: post #13

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I'm going with FeedBurner. Although you could argue it's already 90% dead.

We're betting the same, and have put our money where our mouth is: http://feedsnap.com/

looks great, nice work

Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by [deleted] »

rgbrenner wrote: post #125
rgbrenner wrote: post #104

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No, that is not accurate. Google Checkout processes payments for the merchant, and Google deposits the funds in the merchant's bank account. With the new system, Google has an API to give you the users information, but the merchant must have some way of processing the payment. So these two are not the same at all. I can tell you for my ecommerce site, I intend to drop Google Wallet altogether.. After the numerous Fro…

"Google's implementation of Checkout was flawed from the start (esp how they handled/treated merchants)" I don't mean this to sound like Google treated its merchants badly.. because that's not the case. Google was ok, and I don't have any bad stories to tell. But several of their policies were not pro-merchant (some outright anti-merchant)... it was as if the entire thing (from the interface, the policies, etc) was p…

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Re: Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

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Post by [deleted] »

ryguytilidie wrote: post #62
mtgx wrote: post #19

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Completely agree. I'm so disappointed in Google for having Checkout for years and not doing anything serious with it. I really wanted it to become a serious alternative to Paypal. But it's like they never even tried. And it turned out to be huge mistake for them because they could've really used Checkout accounts from day one of Android, to get people to pay for Android apps. I still believe this has been one of the…

As someone who used to recruit for Google, and watched the team recruit THOUSANDS of developers only to discontinue product after product, wtf are these guys all doing?

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