How To Use Invoice Mode to Collect Client Payment on Google Checkout.

As a musician or an artist, you will often need to collect money from clients for the works you are going to provide (never perform a work without a payment or good promise of it!)

One of the easiest ways to collect money from your client is to use Google Checkout. Since it uses credit card and all major cards are accepted and it is far more reliable to get paid than to use checks. Also the system is sophisticated enough that it will check things like "return credit" history of individuals before the charge can go through. This will, in general, try to avoid you a hassle of dealing with people who do not have a real intention to pay.

You may have seen Google Checkout buttons on searches and some catalog merchants. But there is one more mode in Google Checkout that you can use to invoice people directly.

But first, if you have not yet set up a Google Checkout account, it is fairly straight forward to do, just go to https://checkout.google.com/ and set up your account. Now you are a Google Checkout Merchant. The word Merchant is important to remember because you will be dealing with Google Checkout as a merchant and not a consumer.

How To Invoice Your Client Directly via Google Checkout

• First go to Google Checkout Merchant Page: http://checkout.google.com/sell/ And be sure to Bookmark this in your browser since you are going back there a lot. But if you forget, don't dismay. Just search Google for "Google Checkout Merchant" It is important that you remember to use the Merchant mode otherwise you will be in a consumer mode trying to buy things from other merchants.
• Log in using your Google Account
• Once signed in you see the Tools menu/tab on top part of the page. Click it.
• Find "Email Invoices" link and click it.
• Just follow the instructions on the page.

When the payment clears you will be notified via Email.