>Google checkout it supposed to be really awesome and yet here we >are getting suggestions to use COM object calls just to encrypt an xml >shopping cart (which frankly has ZERO top-secret data unless it bothers you >that some hacker might now you are purchasing a t-shirt that says "hooters" >on it).
LOL, I certainly agree with you there. It does seem overly complicated. >Frankly, I am not yet seeing the benefits of Google checkout over other >implementations. Right now, the only thing going for it (in my VERY LIMITED >experience) is the name GOOGLE. Well, there are a few other benefits, particularly for merchants that pay for Google AdWords. They get discounts on the cost of the service according to how much they pay for AdWords. I can see the benefit for the customer as well, similar to the use of PayPal. I know from experience that a lot of smaller stores do not properly protect credit card data, and there's really no way to tell that as a customer. Making payments through a service like Google is certainly beneficial in that customers can feel more confident that their data is being properly protected. Not that it is ever 100% safe, but there's certainly a higher level of trust there. Does Google provide such benefits over PayPal? Well, the main benefit is being able to label sites as supporting Google Checkout right on the Google search. -------------------- Mary Jo Sminkey http://www.cfwebstore.com CFWebstore, ColdFusion E-commerce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248820 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
