Buy Now Buttons

A Buy Now button is a button you display near an item (or set of items) on your website to allow buyers to purchase that item from you. When buyers click the Buy Now button, they'll immediately proceed to the purchase process without having to view a shopping cart summary first. Because there is no shopping cart, buyers can place orders for only one item at a time. After buyers confirm their purchases, orders will be displayed in the Google Checkout Merchant Center for you to process. You'll also receive an email from Google Checkout notifying you of new orders.

Will this procedure work for me?

• Buy Now buttons only allow you to sell a single item per transaction; if you're planning to allow buyers to purchase different items at the same time from you, you'll need to set up a shopping cart on your website.
• Buy Now buttons cannot be used for items with a price higher than $10,000.
• You'll need to be able to edit the HTML source of the webpage where you want the Buy Now button.

Technical Skills Required:

The person implementing the Buy Now buttons does not need to write HTML, but should be able to read HTML well enough to know the appropriate point where the Buy Now button code snippet should be added.

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Step 1. Sign up for a Google Checkout merchant account

1. Sign up now (http://checkout.google.com/sell/signup) for a Checkout merchant account if you don't already have one.

   This is a production account, for receiving orders from actual paying customers. You will need to supply your email address, to which you will be sent an email to confirm. You will also need to supply information that personally identifies you or your business — depending on the country, this might include a credit card number, tax number, registration number or other identification.

2. Specify a bank account

   Follow these instructions to get paid: Bank account set up and verification (http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=113730&ctx=dg).

   When you sell through Google Checkout, buyers pay Google Checkout, who then pays you. Before you can get paid, you need to specify a bank account so that you'll be eligible for payouts. This setup can take a few days, so it's good to set it up early.

3. Allow unsigned carts

   Go to the Integration Settings (https://checkout.google.com/sell/settings?section=Integration) page and uncheck the checkbox labeled My company will only post digitally signed carts. Then click the Save button.

Step 2. Add Buy Now buttons to your site

After you sign up for Google Checkout, you can add our HTML code snippet to your website to display Buy Now buttons. Here's how:

1. Go to the Create a Buy Now button page (https://checkout.google.com/sell2/settings?section=BuyNowButton). You'll be asked to sign in (if you aren't already signed in).
2. Select your button type, style, and size.
3. Enter your item's name, description, and price.
4. (Optional) If you're using a Buy Now button with options, click Add another item for each additional item you'd like to add.
5. Click Create button code.
6. Click any part of the code snippet in the box that appears at the bottom of the page. The entire code snippet will be highlighted.
7. Copy the code snippet to your clipboard.
8. Paste the code snippet into the HTML source of the webpage where you would like to sell this item.

Note: Buy Now button transactions cannot exceed $10,000. High transaction amounts may also involve greater scrutiny to help ensure a safe and secure shopping environment for buyers and sellers.

If you'd like to change the item name, description, or price for a Google Checkout Buy Now button after you've added it to your webpage, you have two options:

• Create a new Buy Now button in the Google Checkout Merchant Center. (See the steps listed above.)
• Edit your existing Buy Now button HTML code directly on your website. Remember, if you're using a website editing application, you'll need to use the 'Code' view and not the 'Design' view when changing the Buy Now button code on your website.

You may not alter the appearance or functionality of Buy Now buttons in any way. For additional details about button requirements, please review our program policies (https://checkout.google.com/seller/policies.html).

Step 3. Test your Buy Now buttons (Optional)

You can test your integration by clicking a Buy Now button on your website to initiate a purchase. (You won't be charged unless you click 'Place your order now.')

Note: Buy Now buttons will remain on your website unless you edit your website's HTML to remove them. To avoid buyer confusion, please ensure you can fulfill orders before placing Buy Now buttons on your website, and remove Buy Now buttons from your site if you don't intend to fulfill orders any longer.

Step 4. Start processing orders

Once you update your website's HTML with the Buy Now code, you can start accepting orders and processing them through Google Checkout immediately.

Go to the Orders tab of your Merchant Center (https://checkout.google.com/sell/orders") to see orders that buyers have sent. New orders will appear in the "Order Inbox" only after your buyer has clicked the "Buy Now" button and authorized the payment.

Note: Orders placed via Buy Now buttons don't require digital signature authentication. As they are unauthenticated, others could potentially submit orders with different prices than those you set for your buttons. Please review your orders before processing them to ensure that the prices and other information are correct.

Getting paid

After a buyer has placed an order, you have shipped it to them and charged their credit card, Google then pays you that amount minus a transaction fee. To find out about payment prerequisites and schedules, see:

• Receiving payouts
• Transaction fees
• More about payouts and fees