The Google Checkout process officially launched, offering its users a unified shopping process that emphasizes safety and user control of the online retail experience.

Garett Rogers has discovered some interesting domain information that looks related to Google and a possible checkout process.

In case you haven’t heard of a company called Volusion, they have offered eCommerce software, website design services and advanced online solutions for both large and small businesses since 1999.

Small businesses will get a choice of single or multiple page checkout options for their Yahoo stores.

For online businesses with their main goal of selling products, shopping cart abandonment can mean the difference between profitability and loss. But since recent surveys suggest that less than 50% of retailers know their shopping cart abandonment rate, let’s review what it is and why it is important to know.

Usable Shopping Carts Increase Sales

E-commerce has been around since 1993 under many different names, but one thing remains constant; shoppers want usable web sites. Without a usable shopping cart the sites typically fail from poor performance. To succeed in the world of e-commerce and on the Internet web sites must be developed to be usable by patrons as well as search engines.

Using PayPal as a gateway for accepting online payments has just become much more attractive.

PayPal, owned by eBay, has always been considered one of the best, most secure choices of payment for auctions, whether by check or credit card. But one of the biggest drawbacks to it has been the restriction that the buyer also had to have a PayPal account in order make that payment.