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This article is to help our clients and readers get a good picture of Google Checkout and use it as an alternative for merchant processing for their online shops, and so on. Hope everyone enjoys this article!

Google checkout is basically a third party merchant account provider like others paypal, 2checkout an online payment processing service, its not a payment gateways or MSP. To get Google checkout merchant account you must have a US address with a US Bank account in addition to a social security number and a Credit card or Federal Tax ID/ EIN, currently a non-US based merchant can not use their service. Looking more on this checkout system- there is no monthly setup or gateway fees are currently being charged from Google checkout merchants, they charge with a standard charge of 2.0% of the sales amount plus $ 0.20 per transaction. However there are few disadvantages of this payment system, as Google Checkout merchants can sell only tangible goods not any intangible products/services if they are not certified as a 501c3 tax-exempt organization, and the payments are billed only in US dollar not any other currency currently.

Google checkout has proprietary built Fraud Screening and detection system that protect their merchant from chargebacks, however if a chargeback is reasonable the merchant has to refund full amount with $10. However it is good that if you are Google Adword advertiser you can get some of the benefit by using their payment system such as for every $1 spent on Adword each month they will be able to process $10 in sales the subsequent month for free. Most current news referred to google official blog,they have launched a new referral channel for their Google AdSense publishers that will allow their publishers to refer buyers to Google Checkout and earn revenue”.

For integration you can integrate Google checkout through Buy Now buttons, Off-the-shelf shopping cart or through their Custom-built shopping cart all these integration need some technical knowledge. During launching of Google checkout it was rumored that it is an alternate option of paypal, but this is not a fact, Google checkout has to go long way to compete with paypal.

Google Checkout is also compatible with CirtexHosting and can be integrated easily into many popular shopping cart systems from OsCommerce to CubeCart.

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Some of us were definitely born to rule the computer world. Discovering little programs that help along the way helps too, though. I discovered a little program a while back that I’d like to share with all you Cirtex groupies. It’s called PowerMenu, it came out nearly 4 years ago, and hasn’t been updated in nearly 3 years, but it still does the trick.

Check out: http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/

This program gives you the multi-tasking king options as follows:

[-] Minimize to Tray - Allowing you to right click on any program window in the task bar and minimize it to the system tray. Need to do something else but keep a program open? Perfect for this use.
[-] Always on Top - When I’m learning stuff about linux command line (never can get enough of that), I often like to put the notepad file I’m saving notes to, always on top mode. It keeps it handy and in view while playing around.
[-] Transparency - I’m not a big buff for this, but I can see how people could find it useful.
[-] Priority - Ever notice how iTunes will skip songs if you don’t have a lot of Ram and are running numerous other programs? This is perfect for that, set the priority to above normal, and no more skipping! I can think of 100’s of other uses for this too.

Check it out!

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The web designers, web developer, programmers and others could be business people who can start hosting business as an add-on service to explore their wide range of services. As web designers, web developer you might come across with your clients asking recommendation for a host providers once you meet their initial requirement of designing/developing work, instead of recommending others you can meet their requirement yourself by providing them add-on service to meet their hosting need.

It is very easy to start a reseller hosting business as it require very little knowledge and minimal understanding of technicalities for web hosting services in order to get started. From right away you can start selling hosting plans under your own brand and one big plus point come through reseller hosting plan that you are not generally responsible for maintaining web server services & support and similar task as such task are performed and maintained by the service provider/owner of the dedicated server on which the reseller host is hosted. You can meet the requirement of your customers without any problem through the reseller hosting providers as you are backed by technical support by the web-hosting providers such as CirtexHosting.

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Due to large volume of fraud orders from our $2.50/mo hosting packages lately, we’ve restricted our Basic Plan to only Yearly Payment cycles now. So in the future you’ll have to pay $25 up front if you wish to order new Basic Package hosting plan.

This will not affect existing customers on the $2.50/mo Basic Plan, just future signups for Basic plan will be required to pay $2/mo for one year as only payment cycle available. All other packages are untouched and existing customers are not affected.

Cheers

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