Get Start With Your Own Google Checkout E-commerce Website

Get Start with your own Google Checkout e-Commerce website

You can get started with your own Google Checkout e-Commerce website selling your own products or services to your Nigerian abroad customers in US/UK as well as Nigerian customers with Nigeria banks’ prepaid credit/debit card to order/purchase from you. This is designated for domain owners that already registered with their own web hosting service.

    1.   Go register with Google Checkout merchant at http://checkout.google.com/sell.

    2.   Once you done completed registering with Google Checkout Merchant, please write down your google merchantID and google merchantKey putting it in a safe place that no-one know your private google merchantID/merchantKey.

    3.   Go your web hosting panel (usually control panel admin with its login system (username/password) such as Cpanel, Hsphere, Plesk or other CMS), scroll down finding the section of the software/services to click “FANTASTICO” icon.

    4.   On Fantastico windows, you will see the e-Commerce category on the left side column of the navigation area you select "osCommerce" or “Zen Cart” (whatever you choose one) to be installed automatically for you. It means FANTASTICO will install either OsCommerce or Zen Cart (whatever you choose one) AUTOMATICALLY for you instead of go google finding e-Commerce site to download it manually. It is much easier than downloading from the google.

    5.   During the e-Commerce installation phrase, it will ask you to fill in the blank the following questions step by step.

    6.   You should get the finalized e-Commerce installation saying, "Congratulation, <the name of eCommerce> has been installed on your hosting" and then close the Fantastico return to Cpanel in order to log off your Cpanel. It will tell you where to link opening your e-Commerce on your desired URL address.

    7.   Type up www.yourdomain.com/catalog/ (your desired URL address) to ensure your e-Commerce website is UP RUNNING CORRECTLY.

     8.   Go to download google checkout module (plugin) for oscommerce: http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-oscommerce/ or google checkout module for Zen Cart: http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-zencart/ (required basic PHP knowledge how to modify your e-Commerce pages to make Google Checkout functionally.) Once you have done modification with NO ERRORS.

    9.   Go typing up www.yourdomain.com/catalog/admin (desired URL admin address) to open your e-Commerce admin panel, you are FULLY RESPONSIBLE to configure the following menus at below:

     •   My Store (your store name, your owner name, business address where customer reach you for contact info, etc.)
     •   Catalog (delete all existing product pictures/text descriptions/prices, replacing your own product pictures, text descriptions, prices) Also add new category, add new subcategory
     •   Module to select “Payment” and click “GOOGLE CHECKOUT” to hit “edit” filling out the blank info that asks you for google merchantID/merchantKey in order to be activated/live RUNNING Google Checkout site FUNCTIONALLY.
     •   Tax (if you are in US/UK, set up local/state tax rate properly)
     •   Localization (your currency exchange: USD, NGN, EURO, etc)
     •   Tools to select “Database Backups” to save first database you want to back up in case if u make mistake on Catalog change. The original database will restore erasing catalog for example.

That’s it! Your e-Commerce site IS UP RUNNING to sell your product/service receiving customers order with GOOGLE CHECKOUT payments directly to you in order for you transferring funds to your Nigeria bank the next 4 days available funds. Sold your product with shipping label sending to your customer.

OH I FORGOT TO ADD: this Google Checkout Merchant IS REQUIRED to have SSI CERTIFICATE on your registered hosting service to make it work! Unlikely PayPal does not required using SSI certificate because PayPal has its own IPN script built-in that will pop-up new PayPal windows when customer hit "PAYPAL CHECKOUT" button.

@kehers and uspry

It's not. It's only locations are the US and Uk. FYI.

PayPal vs. Google Checkout: countries supported

Archive for May, 2008 || Published on May 31, 2008 in Development.
Source Cite: http://aralbalkan.com/1350
Author: Aral Balkan

Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs that each processor presents on its sign up page.

Summary
PayPal supports substantially more countries than Google Checkout but it doesn't support a complete superset. If you want to reach the largest possible audience, you should implement both payment methods.

Details
Paypal supports 190 countries while Google Checkout supports just 142.

122 of those countries are the same (intersection).

By implementing both checkout methods, you can support a total of 210 countries (union).

These are the 68 countries that PayPal supports that Google Checkout does not (difference):

1.  Andorra
2.  Anguilla
3.  Argentina
4.  Aruba
5.  Bhutan
6.  Brazil
7.  Burundi
8.  Cayman Islands
9.  Chad
10. China Worldwide
11. Comoros
12. Cook Islands
13. Democratic Republic of the Congo
14. Djibouti
15. Dominica
16. Eritrea
17. Ethiopia
18. Falkland Islands
19. Federated States of Micronesia
20. Fiji
21. French Guiana
22. French Polynesia
23. Gambia
24. Grenada
25. Guadeloupe
26. Guinea
27. Guinea Bissau
28. Guyana
29. Kiribati
30. Kyrgyzstan
31. Lesotho
32. Madagascar
33. Malawi
34. Marshall Islands
35. Martinique
36. Mauritania
37. Mayotte
38. Mongolia
39. Montserrat
40. Nauru
41. New Caledonia
42. Niger
43. Niue
44. Norfolk Island
45. Palau
46. Papua New Guinea
47. Pitcairn Islands
48. Republic of the Congo
49. Reunion
50. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
51. Samoa
52. Sierra Leone
53. Solomon Islands
54. Somalia
55. South Korea
56. St. Helena
57. St. Kitts and Nevis
58. St. Lucia
59. St. Pierre and Miquelon
60. Suriname
61. Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
62. Swaziland
63. São Tomé and Príncipe
64. Tonga
65. Turks and Caicos Islands
66. Tuvalu
67. Vanuatu
68. Wallis and Futuna Islands

And here are the 20 countries that Google Checkout supports that PayPal does not (difference):

1.   Bangladesh
2.   Belarus
3.   British Indian Ocean Territory
4.   Cameroon
5.   Côte d'Ivoire
6.   Equatorial Guinea
7.   Georgia
8.   Ghana
9.   Haiti
10.  Lebanon
11.  Macedonia
12.  Moldova
13.  Monaco
14.  Nigeria
15.  Pakistan
16.  Paraguay
17.  Puerto Rico
18.  Serbia and Montenegro
19.  Uzbekistan
20.  Zimbabwe

I hope you find this useful. Download the python script (paypal-google.py.zip, 4KB).

@hanen

Thank u for point out clearly!