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• Why Google Checkout?

Google™ Checkout give you as a student, the power to quickly pay for your lessons on the spot! It is a fast and secure way for you to manage your payments and use a credit card to pay for your lessons. There is no charge for you the student to use Google Checkout.

Book A Lesson is devoted to provide avenues for payment to you as an instructor. Currently Google Checkout is offered at Book A Lesson and can be a great way for you to get up and running and ready to accept payments online. With Google Checkout you will see savings of at least 20% over the leading merchant accounts. For low volume instructors, you could see savings greater than 40%!!!

UPDATE: Google Checkout is not charging fees through 12/31/2007!!!

"Why Google Checkout?" video
Order Processing Demo

Integrate with Book A Lesson

Once you have reviewed the Google Checkout product and want to get rolling with accepting payments with Google Checkout on bookalesson.com, follow these simple instructions.

retrieve your merchant-key and merchant-id from the Google Checkout Manager. Browse to the "integration" section and see screensot below for where to find this information.



You also need to past the following into the "API callback URL:" field.

https://bookalesson.com/googleorder/getresponse/

This allows Google Checkout to post responses back to Book A Lesson which will keep you and your students up to date.

login to your account and edit your profile. Edit your Google Checkout profile, make sure the checkbox "Accept Google Checkout?" is checked and your merchand-key and merchant-id matches your information from the Google Checkout Merchant Center.

Merchant accounts can be spendy, difficult to integrate, difficult to manage and costly if your transaction level is lower than normal. Google Checkout has no setup fees, or monthly fees! This means you only pay for the services when you use them. Their fees are very competitive to the offerings of a merchant account.

	Google Checkout	Leading Internet Merchant Account
Transaction Rate	2.00%	2.40%
Transaction Fee	$0.20	$0.30
Setup Fee	-	$99.00
Monthly Service Fee	-	$31.00
Address Verification Fee	-	$0.01
SAMPLE SCENARIOS
10 Transactions of $100	$1000.00	$1000.00
Total Fees	$22.00	$58.00*
Net Pay	$978.00	$942.00*
100 Transactions of $50	$5000.00	$5000.00
Total Fees	$120.00	$181.00*
Net Pay	$4880.00	$4819.00*
* does not include monthly fees and setup fees