Checkout Battle: Google vs PayPal

[mandy]

The search engine giant crashed PayPal’s payments party with financial incentives to retailers and a tie-in between Google Checkout and AdWords. But some merchants are wary of Google, and PayPal is rallying support for its Express Checkout with the aid of parent eBay and Google arch-rival Yahoo...

full article: http://www.internetretailer.com/article.asp?id=23904

[amy]

PayPal is rallying support for its Express Checkout

They've called us a few times and tried to convince (i.e. begged/tried to bribe with Yahoo Search Marketing credits ) us to use it on our stores.  We don't use PP Express because a. only 3 of our 7 stores are using Zen v1.37 (the rest are using 1.35 which doesn't support Express) and b. we want our customers to use our checkout and pay be credit card--our merchant account rates are much lower than PP

Google Checkout has definitely won the battle over PP in our stores (by a 3-1 margin) but that could be because we don't offer PP Express.  Neither one of them are competition for our merchant account (over 90% of sales).