Technology- Google Checkout
Last week Google introduced their new Checkout service for online payments. I was
pretty excited to investigate since an easy way to accept payments without having to fork over 50% to someone else would be a real
bonus for those of us trying to build new web-services, etc. The site was easy to sign-up for and taking advantage of the $10-off
on any $20 purchase from various vendors was a pretty good deal to get me to try it out. The API stuff looks pretty good
too.
The one catch is that their terms of service currently only support transactions that involve “tangible” goods. So selling
a digital service is not allowed for now. They seem to imply they are looking at supporting these digital services eventually
and I find it ironic that they don’t support the very kind of transaction that they have built their business on so far. I don’t
for a second think that its because they don’t want people competing with them- Google has never seemed like the organization that
would take a short-signed position like that rather than eagerly get everyone selling web-services across the web to be tied into
the Google infrastructure. Stay tuned…
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