Google Checkout Now In The UK

[Peter]

I am surprised this has not already been posted about.

Google's checkout service has now been made available for UK customers:-

Search giant Google has launched its payment service, Google Checkout, in the UK.

Checkout will compete with both the mainstream card processing services used by many online merchants and auction site eBay's Paypal service.

The US holiday season, for instance, saw Google offering free processing till the end of 2007 for retailers, and sizable discounts to consumers.

UK retailers will get the same offer, as well as the standard price break of £10 of orders processed for free for each £1 a retailer spends buying advertising through Google

Source http://news.bbc.co.uk

Google Checkout
https://checkout.google.com/

This is of course great news. Although not necessarily going to be competing with paypal on all levels it will help lower fees etc for payment processors so people should benefit regardless of whether they are going to use google checkout or not.

 

[tm]

I've signed up and for a merchant account also .

 

[karthikeyan]

Is it available for INDIA ?

 

[Ninformer.com]

Is it available for INDIA ?

No , its not at this point of time.

 

[PolurNET]

Wonder what's taking so long for Canada, we're not too different from the folks down south :p

 

[JFS]

you have canada on the registration options

 

[Shorty]

Ahh good, i'm glad we've got it now. I'm disappointed however, that we cant send money directly from person to person (as far as I can see)...do you need a merchant account to be able to receive transactions?

 

[tm]

(free) merchant account is at http://checkout.google.com/?sell, I believe.