Piryx is payments for the social web, but with a host of intelligence and data mining features only available to huge companies and campaigns in the past. With roots in political fundraising, Piryx has a track record that's somewhat impressive, having recently rolled out a site to accept donations for Rep. Joe "You Lie!" Wilson, and claiming another 150 payment taking users nationwide.

The social media element comes to play as users track their incoming payments. By using custom generated urls, users can track where, who and why their customers and contributors took action and slapped down the credit card. Was it that Twitter retweet campaign, a sympathetic blogger or just another happy customer referral? Piryx helps you track the success of the efforts within your campaign.

Piryx is launching publicly with a better payments experience than the common payment sites, but they're looking to own much of the upstream marketing that funnels and fuels eventual payments, as well as providing backend analytics, compliance, and reporting functions which until now necessitated another piece of software and a larger commitment of effort. .

The fee structure of Piryx is higher than that of Paypal, but creating the same tracking and analytics with Paypal would cost far more in effort and time. At 4.5% for first $100k, and a sliding scale running down to 4% for intake of over $1 Million.

Of course, it's 2009 and "there's an app for that". Piryx's DEMOfall presentation includes a developer market, allowing third parties to build and market integration of Piryx with other services and tools. Currently available at launch are apps for Linked-In, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, with more to come.

Also launching with Piryx is a campaign for the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, raising money with the platform to combat homelessness and poverty in our nation's inner-cities.

Google Checkout has a lot of competition, with you know who (eBay and PayPal) so they have to stay atop their game if they want to make buyers and sellers happy with their transactions.

The Google Checkout team has announced that they have made a few slight adjustments to their seller website amidst some user feedback. So what have they done? Made it easier to navigate, added some reference materials, integration guides, and FAQ's. And keep in mind that all merchant fees are waived until some unannounced time in 2008.

How have DLSers experiences been with Google Checkout? Have you been happy with your buying of selling transactions? What would you change?

TechCrunch is reporting that Amazon plans to launch an online payment system soon that will compete with Google Checkout and eBay's PayPal.

Amazon's existing checkout system for its retail site is one of the more sophisticated on the web. The company also allows third parties to sell new and used goods through Amazon's Marketplace and Auction services. But this will be the first time Amazon makes its payment system available for independent sellers to include on their own websites.

Apparently the service will work much like Google Checkout. When you find an item you would like to pay for, you click a button on the web site and you'll be redirected to an Amazon page to complete the transaction.

The beauty of these services is that you can submit your personal information to just one site and pay for goods purchased online at hundreds of websites. And while competition is generally a good thing, if this market gets too crowded, frequent online shoppers will wind up having to sign up for accounts with dozens of checkout services, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Its 2007, and we don't have flying cars yet, but we do now have the abilities to buy items via our mobile devices. Ok, so it's not totally futuristic, but nonetheless it's a step towards the future.

Google has announced that Google Checkout buyers can now make fast, secure purchases using mobile devices straight from any WAP enabled Checkout merchant. The process involved in purchasing is a little different than with the online steps involved. Buyers must verify their identity with a special PIN, rather than a login. Merchants that are hooked up in the standard Google Checkout program will automatically have mobile functionality built into their existing store (including mobile-friendly sites), so no further implementations are involved.

Google plans on adding further functionality as the mobile system, and its user base grows. Lets just get a move on on the flying car thing.

Yahoo and PayPal are working on their strategic alliance by offering a pretty little shopping cart icon next to Yahoo's sponsored search results.

The new Yahoo shopping cart icons point searchers to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout as a payment method. This move looks strikingly similar to Google's Checkout feature whereby a shopping cart is placed below sponsored results that have a Checkout store.

With over 100 million current PayPal users, this is a great partnership that will surely skyrocket sales for PayPal merchants. Will this make them think twice about using Yahoo for online advertising? No way, it would surely make them spend additional ad dollars. Especially with the $100 credit Yahoo is offering for sponsored search. Could we see $10 off coupons coming out from Google soon?

[via searchengineland]

Awhile back we reported that Google is really trying to push its Google Checkout payment processing service by offering a $10 coupon to everyone who signs up. They're still offering the coupon, and they've even dropped the if-you-spend-$30-or-more requirement, and today I decided to bite the bullet and grab my sweet, sweet coupon. But I was a little annoyed that Google doesn't tell you up front, before you sign up, exactly which stores are participating in the promotion. The promotion page just lists fifteen of them, and says "And many more!"

Where am I going with all this? Well, since I did bite the bullet, I thought I'd satisfy everyone's curiosity and list all of the web stores that are participating in Google Checkout's $10 coupon promotion (Google Checkout has many more stores under its umbrella, but not all of them are participating in the promo).

In case you're wondering, I found the whole Google Checkout process really streamlined and painless--much easier than PayPal, far easier than most stores' built-in checkout system. Now that I've finally signed up, I'll be using it whenever it's available.

Anyway, see the full list--234 stores by my count--after the jump!

Unlike some of its other products, Google is really putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to Google Checkout. Previously Google had announced that it was waiving all transaction fees through the end of this year, but now it has announced that all transactions will be free for the entirety of 2007. Promising a merchant an entire year of free credit card transactions is a pretty good way to get them to try their service, and after a year of using it there's a pretty good chance they'll stick with it, so despite the massive upfront cost, this is a pretty savvy gamble for Google. They've also dropped a new features in for merchants, including easy coupon creation, email invoices, and easier web site integration.

[Via ZDNet]

Google is planning on making holiday shopping easier and faster this year with Checkout. Google has said that they will be offering special promotions for shoppers starting on November 27th and running until December 26th. Users will receive $10 off purchases of $30 or more and $20 off purchases of $50 or more, depending on the merchant involved. To get the benefits of these special offers, there are no special registrations and no delays--users will immediately have credits applied to their purchases. What better way to save a some additional coin during the holiday season. With stores like eBags, Starbucks, Petco, Buy.com, and Bluefly you will surely find something for everyone.

Google is rolling out some new Checkout features that could, in the end, make their dreams of a serious PayPal contender a reality. The changes start off at the merchant level with the availability of a coupon creator and an email invoice product. Also, Google is taking out all transaction fees until the end of you year, most likely to get merchants hooked on Checkout for the crazy holidays buying season. I look forward to watching what else Google pulls from its sleeves in trying to make this a must use next gen online payment tool system. What are your experiences with Google Checkout? I have been nothing but pleased, no issues from me. Yet.

After literally years of rumors, Google has launched its much-talked-about e-commerce payment system, Google Checkout. The idea is simple: Google holds on to your credit card and shipping information, and when you find something you want to buy at a Google Checkout affiliate, completing the transaction is a one-step process. "The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the time the customer decides to buy to the time the transaction is complete and the product is on the way," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the New York Times' coverage of the launch. Google has a trick up its sleeve for luring in merchants, too: If you're a merchant who buys advertising from Google AdSense AdWords, Google will waive some or all of your Checkout transaction fees. But for those who don't enroll in AdSense, the fees are still comparatively low: 20 cents per transaction plus two percent of the purchase price.

We've heard it referred to as Google Wallet, Google Checkout, Google Payments, and now GBuy. Google has long been rumored to be working on a payments system to rival eBay-owned PayPal, and according to Forbes--which calls it GBuy--Google will be launching its online payments system on June 28. Unlike Google Payments, which was integrated into Google Base, GBuy will be intended for merchants who have their own online store, but transactions will be completed through Google's servers. Forbes quotes analyst Jordan Rohan, who says this would allow Google to "capture e-commerce transaction data, driving more precise targeting in future searches." Rohan also believes Google will mark marchants who accept payment through GBuy as "trusted GBuy merchants" when they're listed in Google search results.

There's a lot of speculation about Google going around about today (not that that's different from any other day). First, Inside Google is reporting a scoop from a "quality tipster" that Google recently sent out a notice to beta testers about a system that would allow users to make purchases from "high-quality merchants" through their Google Accounts. According to Inside Google, the notice included a laundry list of products including "cell phone and iPod accessories, music and movies, health and beauty supplies, furniture, housewares, sports and outdoor gear, toys, games and more." In possibly-related news, ZDNet's Garrett Rogers says MarkMonitor, a company in the corporate identity business and which Google has been a client of previously, has registered GoogleCheckout.net, .org, and .info (as DNStination, Inc., which operates out of the same office). GoogleCheckout.com, on the other hand, is registered to someone else via GoDaddy. So the question on everyone's lips is, is Google Checkout Google's answer to PayPal? That definitely seems to be the logical conclusion, and rumblings to that effect have been going on for months, if not a year or more. The timing is interesting, considering that just last week Yahoo! reportedly struck up a deal with PayPal's corporate parent eBay to handle transactions (among other things), and acquisition rumors have been going around. One thing's for certain: If Google did get into the "checkout" business, it would pretty much instantly be a force to be reckoned with.