Google Checkout, a New Payment Service…

While looking up some “How to’s” in YouTube for working with Google Documents to incorporate them with Google+, I stumbled across one of Google’s latest projects they just rolled out- “Google Checkout”…

We all know that accepting different methods of payment is helpful in making sales, it’s good business, and so to be able to except as many kinds of payments is also a good way to cover your bases…  Most often people online except using credit or debit cards through different merchants, such as  “PayPal”, as being a small business they really aren’t large enough to have some full merchant account costs…  So Google is now opening up for use “Google Checkout”…

This allows one to add it to a website, mobile sites, and incorporate it into App’s for virtual services like games or news articles…  So if I understand right, if you had a paid subscription clients could pay via their smart phone, Android, iPhone or tables too…

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This service allows you to payments virtual goods, Digital goods, for game, app, news or media site…  I’m interested in the “Media site” part…

From what I see in the “Fee’s area (http://checkout.google.com/seller/fees.html) that it would be not too bad to do this, the rates seem fairly reasonable for the service provided…  I’m not foreseeing receiving over $100,000 a month real soon, so think the average rate would end up being somewhere between 2.9%-2.5%, which wouldn’t be a bad guess to begin with…  http://checkout.google.com/seller/fees.html

Their rates seem pretty much the same to me- I’m not an accountant, but an artist & small business owner and haven’t yet gotten the viewpoint of a professional accountant- “YET”…

So thinking hmmm, this isn’t a bad service, I might be able to set this up for my Giclée Fine Art Prints service & add it to some of the websites & blogs I’m working on now for selling my limited edition artworks & high end imaging service…  I am now in the creating & designing faze for my Websites & Blogs to reopen my studio…

Google Check Button Example

Being able to put a “Google checkout Accepted” button will be an easy addition &  I believe many trust Google too…

I’m going to give this service a try, for selling my own artwork and the Fine Art Giclée printing service and think for other product and service possibilities for any future website design clients…  But this would also be a good way to except payments for the Social Media workshops I am working on providing to rural small business and local art councils…

So looking at this new service, I tend to now wider- “What will Google put together for their upcoming Google+ Business Pages…

Do you think Google will intigrate Google Checkout as a possible way to help business do business within the upcoming Google+ Business Pages?

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