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knappschiles · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4035 Location: Wi

Hi Gang,

I signed up with Google Checkout a while back and I have them listed for eCrater and Blujay.

But I wanted to set them up on my web site just like I have PP set up. Right now, I'm not using any cart program, just the PP buttons and their cart system. That works just fine for me so far.

With the PP buttons, you just make a button at the PP site and copy the code to your page. It's really rather simple and after making a few buttons it's easy to see what needs to be changed and you can make your own without even going to the site.

Their cart works fine. Every time you click a button, it pops up another age with the sale info, but it will let you go back shopping for more things and will then give you a total and add in a S&H at the end, either % or range.

In checking out the GC button system I find their buttons nicer and you can set them up for "options" in a dropdown box. But that is the only nice thing I found.The buttons themselves are complicated so I would need to go to the site for ALL of them. Much slower.

But the biggest hassel I've found out on the Google groups for Checkout is that a person can only do 1 item at a time thru GC, no acumilating as in a cart. Also it won't add in S&H at the end -- that's a total PITA.

Their Rep on the Google Groups is not much help either. I posted a couple of questions and his reply to 1 was less than helpful.

As best as I can figure, if I set up my site with some e-com cart set-up, I think I will be able to use GC as my "processor" and it would then work as a cart with GC on the "backend". I think that is right. Has anyone used GC that way ??

I don't want to go thru the hassel of setting up a cart if GC isn't going to work with it anyway. My site host has some e-com cart, I just haven't used it yet.

Thanks,
Carol

EleganzaJewels · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 519

OMG, you're kidding!? I've backed way off on Checkout, too, Carol, it has way too many glitches and absolutely no support or answers to questions. And yet Google is now spreading info that they are going to commercialize their recent YouTube purchase somehow. Sheesh, why don't they fix what's already rolled out instead of going forward with new things?

Google's ecommerce attempts smell more and more like Ebay every day :-(

I'm just taking Checkout on Ecrater for now, not going to hassle with it outside of that until they fix things!

knappschiles · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4035 Location: Wi

Yah, why do these companies, when they get big, start running around in all directions like a chicken with it's head cut off instead of concentrating on doing what got them big, in the best possible way. They get doing TOOOO many things and none of them well.

Google does do SOME things very well, but others like Checkout seem to have been thrown together without being totally thought out or tested. The least they could have done is see HOW the PP stuff works so they could have anticipated what people were going to want.

Carol