search engine land is reporting that Google Checkout is no more.
(Google Checkout allowed online users in the USA to easily checkout at the websites of their favorite e-tailers by just using their username and password vs them having to fill out numerous forms during the checkout process).
Apparently, Google notified all Google Checkout users on Thursday that Checkout was being merged into Google Wallet.
Google Wallet is an Android app that makes your phone your wallet.
It does this by storing your credit card information (info) as well as info from Google Offers (Google's coupon site), that enables you to pay for goods at point of sale (POS) terminals using any Android device.
All you have to do to pay, is to first locate merchants that bear the Citi MasterCard PayPass logo via the Google Wallet site or app), then go to a reader at the merchant's POS terminal and tap your Android device on the reader.
(An example of how this is done, is shown in the video above).
The merchant/vendor gets paid but doesn't see your credit card information.
Or
If you don't have a Citi MasterCard, you can fund your Google Wallet (account) via Google's prepaid card (aka Google Prepaid Card).
Google Prepaid Card can be funded using any of your other credit cards and comes with $10 from Google.
(You still have to tap your Android device on the POS reader, to enact payment, however).
You can also:
1) Pay for goods online by going to the sites of merchants that carry the Citi MasterCard PayPass logo.
2) Redeem coupons at the point of sale, via Google Offers coupons from the merchant, that is stored in your Google Wallet account.
To learn more about Google wallet from the:
1) Consumer end, please click here
2) Merchant end, please click here.
Right now, Google Wallet only works in the USA.
(I would like to thank phonescoop for the use of their YouTube inset video and Taekwonweirdo for the use of his Flickr photo above).
Gillian
Sources Include
1) Google Wallet website, accessed November 18,2011
2) Article, "Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet", by Greg Sterling, SearchEngineLand.com, November 17,2011
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