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Today Google announced that any payments processed through Google checkout will be free until the end of the year. This is great news, I’ve always thought that the payment processing industry was a scam, and glad to see that Google is taking it on. Especially for online stores, when transaction processors bear little of the risk, but charge large fees anyway. As Google checkout becomes more ubiquitous I hope to see a push transaction processing fees in the near future. Some people may say that they don’t Google knowing all about their online business, which is probably true, but at the end of the day if they can push down inherent problems within the processing space, it is all the better. I have had problems integrating Checkout in the past, but am definitely stepping up the implementation so we can take advantage of this offer.

The one thing Google needs to do is make the process a bit more full-featured. For instance merchants should be able to enter transactions directly into the Google Checkout admin. If you are looking into a main processor I can say from experience that ChargeNational is one of the Worst Companies I have ever dealt with. If you want to work with a great transaction processor, call PayJunction, they have awesome software.