Integrate Google Checkout API on Your Website

Google Checkout is another online payment processing method that Google has developed to help online merchants and vendors get hold of a secure service for payments processing for their online business. Google Checkout allows online customers to buy items and products from online vendors and stores using a Google user name and password. Google Checkout can be used to charge credit card purchases online, track orders as well as receive order payments.

Online merchants and vendors can take advantage of the Google Checkout service by integrating it in their own websites. This will help provide benefits that online businesses need. Using Google Checkout makes buying from online stores easier and simple for customers. It also allows online merchants to keep track of all the orders made online more conveniently.

What makes Google Checkout an advantage is that it helps protect online buyers as well as merchants against unauthorized purchases that constitutes much of fraud that happens online. What makes Google Checkout an advantage when making online purchases is that it does not share the purchase history of the buyers with the online merchants and vendors. This makes purchases safer and more secure for both buyers and merchants online.

On the part of the online merchant, there are several ways that Google Checkout can be integrated into his or her e-commerce websites. One is by using the "Buy Now" buttons that is provided by Google Checkout. This option is for websites that does not require shopping cart functionality. The website owner simply integrate Google Checkout using the HTML code for "Buy Now" buttons that can be displayed next to the products being sold on the website pages. Clicking on this button would redirect online buyers to the Google Checkout page where online buyers can complete their purchase.

Another way to integrate Google Checkout into an e-commerce website is through valid e-commerce partners. If the website uses a shopping cart that uses one of Google Checkout partners, the merchant only needs to integrate the shopping cart and order processing functions in the website with Google Checkout. Another way to integrate Google Checkout into a website is by integrating the Google Checkout API codes which is provided by Google. The Google Checkout API is available in .asp, .Net, PHP, Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 codes.