November 10th, 2006
Google Checkout ready to go international?
Since I live in Canada, purchasing or selling items on Google Checkout is not an option. I really wanted to check out the new "email invoice" feature they just announced today, but I'm unable to sign up as a seller.
Bitter, I decided to poke around in the source code to see what I could find. It turns out they are getting ready to open up the service to Canada, and probably other countries soon. When you are in the signup form for Google Checkout, you can type this javascript into your address bar to reveal a Canadian signup page — unfortunately I'm still unable to register.
javascript:_AF_AddressFormSetup( "addr", true, "CA", false, "Select state", "Select province", 18, false, false);
The United States and Canada do not have areas designated as any of the following, yet they are found in the code behind the scenes — this gives us a pretty good hint that Canada isn't the only country on the list of upcoming countries:
<span style="display:none" class="emirate"> Emirate: </span>
<span style="display:none" class="island"> Island: </span>
<span style="display:none" class="parish"> Parish: </span>
<span style="display:none" class="area"> Area: </span>
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
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