Chapter 5. Site Checkout & Orders

We're almost at the tipping point for our online catalog site. Customers can shop, they can put stuff into a cart, but the final piece of the puzzle is still lacking: checkout. Without a way to collect orders and payments from customers, our site is never going to be able to send merchandise to customers and won't ever turn a single cent of profit.

This is the problem we're going to correct in this chapter. First, we're going to implement a quick integration with Google Checkout, where customers shop on your site and then are forwarded to the Google Checkout service to provide their billing information. This lets your customers use their Google accounts securely, and is the quickest solution if you're looking to ...

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