Hi I took a glance at Google's Checkout and noted a few interesting bits.
Interfacing with Google Checkout is going to be far different than just adding another payment processor, since it short circuit's the normal checkout procedure. We'll provide Google the products, prices, the shipment costs per state or geo code, taxes per state or geo code, etc, and Google will return the customers name, shipping address, and a 3 day payment guarantee. Their api is simply a base64 version of an encrypted xml packet, so Java 1.5 probably isn't required if someone is willing to do some programming. Overall, I think the service will be very popular since customers will prefer not having to give their credit cards out to every business they order from online, and Google will provide a very good defense against identity fraud, and a "score" that helps them avoid shady operators. Thanks Daniel On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:05 -0700, Rohit Sureka wrote: > hi, > > just a thought, if ofbiz can be made to work with the new google checkout, it > can perhaps spurr greater adoption of ofbiz. Just a handful of e-commerce > providers support of google checkout, thus ofbiz can still have a first > movers advantage if it was made to support google checkout. maybe google will > list list ofbiz on its support e-commerce providers page then. More > information on google checkout can be found at the following links: > > http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=38688&ctx=sibling > http://checkout.google.com > http://checkout.google.com/seller/developers.html. > > rohit > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
