From: https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449
Retiring Google Checkout Announcement
On November 20th, 2013, Google will shut down its Checkout product. Here’s how this may affect you:
- Merchants selling digital goods may transition to Google Wallet for digital goods
- Merchants selling through Google-hosted marketplaces (e.g. Google Play) will be unaffected
- Merchants selling physical goods will need to switch to third-party alternatives (see below)
What this means for ProStores users that unless you are selling digital, non-physical, goods that you will not be able to use Google Checkout anymore, Google is not offering a replacement processing solution for physical goods and services. They have partnered with Braintree Payments to help transition people from Google Checkout, but Braintree and ProStores aren’t compatible at this time so thats of no help.
To minimize the disruption to your business, Google recommends moving to a new payment provider as soon as possible.
Paypal is still available, Amazon payment is good, setting an account with one of the standard Credit Card processors found in your Payment settings is a perfectly viable option as well (although there is a monthly fee associated with a CC processor)
Some important notes:
- No new orders will be accepted after November 20th
- All refunds must be initiated by December 20th
- Payouts will continue per your usual disbursement schedule
- A final payout will be initiated after order processing concludes; where eligible, funds held in reserves will be disbursed
Related articles:
- Closing your account
- Ending order processing
- Processing refunds after account closure
- Managing chargebacks after account closure
- Receiving your final payout
If you’ve purchased Google Checkout from us here at One Take Media just call or email us we will remove it for free. If your a ProStores Merchant and bought it somewhere else we can still help you remove it for a very small fee of $10, thats just to cover the time to remove the code and the badges from your store.
Google’s schedule of changes.
| Date | Product Change |
|---|---|
| May 20th, 2013 | Last day to sign up for Google Checkout |
| November 20th, 2013 | Last day to charge orders |
| November 21st, 2013 | Last day to ship orders |
| November 27th, 2013 | All outstanding orders will be cancelled |
| December 20th, 2013 | Last merchant refunds permitted through Checkout |
Honestly we recommend that people stop using it now, you don’t want to get caught up in a reconciliation and accessing account information mess after the shut off date.
This isn’t happy news, but its important that people know, so please share this post wherever you can.