This is my journey as an E-commerce Consultant
Posts tagged ebay checkout
End of Third party checkouts, so what does that mean?
636 days
Well it means a lot of work for companies like Channeladvisor. Channeladvisor already has the functionality to work with eBay immediate payment which bypasses the CA checkout and the sales are imported after the fact. I imagine this is going to be the norm for such systems after June 2011.
The issues I see at first glance is with shipping. eBay doesn’t let you be so bespoke with shipping methods as a checkout like Channeladvisor, eBay recently opened up to account for non mainland locations in the UK but I doubt they will get much more specific before next June. And how about promotional codes?
Third party checkout will be able to integrate no problem, but the sellers who have built their business on the extra flexibility of third party checkouts will have to edit their practises and how they price their shipping costs.
Fortunately, eBay has given everyone notice of this change – but as always you don’t really know the effect a change has on your business until you try it out 
Some linkage:
Scott Wingo’s response to the death of the third party checkout!
and try the basket yourself http://pages.ebay.co.uk/shoppingbasket/
eBay is going to phase out third party checkout?
1428 days
A pain for a lot of third party tools like ChannelAdvisor, Marketworks advisor what not and Kyozou. Auctionbytes has brought this to our attention.
eBay announced it would phase out third-party checkout by this time next year. Third-party vendors help sellers list on eBay, and some offer sellers use of checkout systems to up-sell and cross-sell items to buyers.
I think there is nothing with wrong with eBay checkout, it has improved greatly but it will mean that ‘complete’ e-commerce systems like the ones mentioned above, will be reduced to eBay listing tools, with a web shop. Personally, it will stop the problems with third party checkouts, as you can still pay OUTSIDE the third party checkout and have your payment lost. I hate having to checkout with third parties even though I would hate to list without them!
One of eBays better decisions, and the third party tools with surely rise to the occasion.
