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Braintree Payment Solutions

Braintree Payment Solutions

Vend FastSpring - Experience E-Commerce 2.0 - Payment and ... I Have Never Been So Happy to Give PayPal $30/month ... If you're trying to grow your startup you've come to the right place. Get my 170-page ebook on how to grow a startup and join thousands of self-funded entrepreneurs by subscribing to my newsletter at right. Photo by The Consumerist The process of opening a credit card merchant account is like getting an enema with a rusty potato peeler. It’s something you don’t really want in the first place, and the longer it drags on the more you regret doing it. This was the situation I found myself starting almost a year ago today (applying for a merchant account, not getting an enema). Even though I’ve coded more than a dozen custom credit card integrations, have accepted payments online for 10+ years, and sell invoicing software that supports half a dozen credit card gateways, I had never been through the application process myself. For I have stared into the countenance of evil and lived to speak the tale… A Long Time Ago (In Internet Years)About a year ago I acquired a product called WeddingToolbox.

Active Merchant Build a .NET App for Google Checkout by Martin Omander 01/09/2007 Google Checkout is a new service designed to make online shopping faster, safer, and more convenient by integrating with sites to help people pay for goods and services online. In this article, I'll explain how Google Checkout works, give you an overview of its API, and then show you how to develop an application for it using .NET. I've also included sample code for the application. (Full disclosure: I work for Google, where I help large merchants integrate with Google Checkout.) To start, let's take Google Checkout for a spin. Figure 1: Google Checkout, integrated with Buy.com If you click the Google Checkout button, you are taken to Google's website, where you can either log in or create a Google account (Figure 2). Figure 2: Google Checkout Figure 3: Placing an order with Google Checkout In other words, Google Checkout is an alternative checkout process, not a form of payment. What's in It for the Merchant? Figure 4: The Google Checkout shopping cart symbol

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