Google Checkout

Your website can accept payments for the different modules within the system such as donations, registrations, and your online store.  To do this, you need a payment processor. You can use the Google Checkout system by Google, which has low per transaction fees, allows numerous forms of payments, is super easy for your clients & customers, and it works great with our system!

There are a couple of steps to create a Google checkout account and integrate it with your account.  We recommend doing this as soon as possible, as Google will make a small deposit or two into your bank account to verify it and this usually takes 3-5 business days.

NOTE: If you will be establishing a non-profit checkout account with Google, Google will NOT allow 501 c4 non-profit accounts, only 501c3. Be sure to go to the settings tab within your Google checkout account and identify your primary product type as "Non-Profit (IRS certified 501c3)". Doing so will prevent Google from disabling your account (preventing your site from making any transactions) in the future when they conduct sporadic account checks. You can read more about this here - Google Checkout for NPO's

Create a Google Checkout account:

1.) Access http://checkout.google.com/sell/
2.) Click the link that says "Information for Sellers"
3.) Click the "Sign Up Now" button
4.) Create a profile or use an existing profile, and log in.
5.) Follow your prompts / questions that are appropriate to you.
6.) Fill out your business / organization information.
7.) Specify a bank account for Google to verify.
8.) Click on the Settings Tab and then the Integration Tab.

You will see your Google Merchant ID and KEY.  COPY EXACTLY these values and save as you will need these values to insert into the system so that your site "connects" to Google.

Integration Settings within Google Checkout:

1.) Uncheck or leave unchecked the "Shopping cart post security" option
2.) API Callback URL is: https://secure.sitewrench.com/checkout/notification.aspx
3.) Callback Method: XML
4.) Leave all options in the Advanced Settings Link unchecked.
5.) Currently, use API version 2.0 as its currently the safest and most secure.

NOTE: Skip Tax Setup as that is controlled from SiteWrench.

Connect your the system account to Google Checkout:

1.) Access the administration area of SiteWrench
2.) Click on the Settings Tab
3.) Click on the Merchant sub Tab
4.) Adjust mode to "Production"
5.) Paste in EXACTLY the Merchant ID and KEY values you copied from Google.
6.) Save. You are ready to begin accepting payments for donations and registrations!

**Currently IF YOU HAVE A STORE for selling products, you will need to do this in one more place until we have an adjustment made to the system **

1.) Access the store tab.
2.) Click on the Settings sub tab.
3.) Check the option to "Allow Checkout"

You will see the same setting information in the steps above display.

4.) Adjust mode to "Production"
5.) Paste in EXACTLY the Merchant ID and KEY values you copied from Google.
6.) Save. You are ready to begin accepting payments!

Google Checkout Process Explained 
When using the checkout process, we have integrated with Google Checkout as the payment processor. This allows the customer experience to be quick and easy! The diagram below briefly shows you how this process works. Once customers have everything that they would like within the shopping cart, they will click the Google Checkout button, and then be redirected to Google to complete payment.



Once the user has completed payment, they can be returned back to your website. On successful payment, you will receive a notification email from our system. You can also choose to receive notification emails from Google as well. When you return to the system , a notification will appear in the Notifications section of the Dashboard screen alerting you that there has been some store activity.

Find out more about Google Checkout including fees, payment process, security, and more by clicking here.