Google Checkout Button Appender

Until March 31st 2007 Google Checkout runs a promotion for buyers ($10 signup bonus) and sellers (Google is processing all of your Checkout sales for free until december 31st 2007)

If you are using PayPal Buy Now Buttons, this tool gives you an easy way to add Google Checkout as another puchase option, give your users more choice about their checkout process, and save on free transaction processing. Ecommerce is all about choice:-)
You can get started in 10 minutes, here's how it works:

• First signup to create a Google Checkout merchant account, it takes 5 minutes. When you create your account, in the Settings/Integration tab uncheck the box: "For extra security, my company will only post digitally signed XML shopping carts. (Google should reject all others)". The Checkout Buttons generated by this tool use the Google Checkout HTML API.
• Then use the the form below: you just need to specify your Google Merchant Id and the url of your site and click submit. The Google Checkout Buttons will contain the same product name, price and quantity as the existing Paypal Buttons.
• Test the new buttons to check they do what you expect: click the Checkout Buttons one the new page and determine wether the informations have been copied correctly.
• Copy the generated HTML and replace your page with it.

This script currently only migrates simple unencrypted Paypal Buy Now Buttons, that specify at least values for these fields: item_number, item_name and amount and does not handle taxes and shipping. If you have pages that have more needs than that, please send me their url so that I can have some test pages to improve the tool.

Use it at your own risks: this is very much a personal work in progress. If you are interested in the source code this script is part of the open source project Google Checkout HTML API utilities. Use the project's issue tracker to log bugs, and the Google Checkout Developer Forum for feedback.