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  Build a .NET App for Google Checkout
Subject:   Buy Now Button Mistery
Date:   2007-11-17 15:45:02
From:   momander
Response to: Buy Now Button Mistery

The Buy Now button is a way to add Checkout capabilities to a web site by only editing static HTML. They only support buying a single product at a time, and their tax and shipping options are very limited.


If you are ASP.NET writing code anyway, you are probably better off skipping the Buy Now button and going with the regular Checkout button. This is the GCheckoutButton component. It supports adding multiple items per purchase, complex tax rules, and multiple shipping methods.


Even if you don't need all those options, the GCheckoutButton is very easy to work with, and it plays nice with ASP.NET's form handling, which the Buy Now button doesn't.


/Martin