More options available for sales tax setup

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ed Note: This continues our series of posts about features that make running your business on Google Checkout even easier.

As the US tax season comes to an end, the Checkout team’s been doing a lot of thinking about taxes too. We’re happy to announce a new feature for sellers in the US that will allow you to simplify the way you calculate and charge sales tax.

You can find our new tax setup page under the Settings tab of your Checkout Merchant Center:













Access to the tax rate database which calculates tax rates based the buyer’s ZIP code is currently limited to US sellers. To learn more about these features, you can view the brief video tutorial below:



Posted by Igor Ginzburg and Andrew Cunningham, Software Engineers

Google Checkout + Sites: Two new ways to add Google Checkout "Buy Now" buttons to your Sites

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Ed Note: This is the second in a series of posts from the Checkout team about features that will make running your business on Google Checkout even easier.

We're happy to share two new ways to easily add Google Checkout as a payment option for items on your Google Sites pages. To add the button right from your Sites page, look for the Google Checkout "Buy Now" Button Gadget in the Google Sites list of featured gadgets. Then setup your gadget with the item details and display settings in just a few clicks.


To learn more about how to add the gadget to your Sites pages through Google Sites, please visit the step-by-step instructional article.

Alternatively, you can also generate the "Buy Now" Button in your Merchant Center and copy and paste the generated button's code snippet into your Google Sites page HTML code. Just click the HTML button while in your Google Sites edit page mode and Sites will automatically embed the button in a gadget for you.

Posted by Nicolas Garnier, Developer Programs Engineer