Time for action – how to set up Google Checkout payments
The first thing to mention is that Google offers a "sandbox mode". This is where you can connect to Google Checkout and try everything out but in a mode where no actual financial transactions take place. This is quite handy. As our objective is to get up and running quickly, we will talk about setting up the real mode. If you want to use the sandbox mode first, the instructions are identical. You would just enter the details of your sandbox account instead of your real account. You can get a free sandbox account from https://sandbox.google.com/checkout.
There is nothing particularly technical here, but there are a number of steps that need to be done just right. So let's do this:
Hover on Modules and click on the Payments & Gateways on the left-hand side of the bar. Install the gcheckout (Addons), and click on Configure.
Set the Mode to Real.
On your Google Checkout account home page, in the top right corner is your Merchant ID. Copy...
