Security best practices

To keep your payments profile secure for the protection of your customers and you, keep these security best practices in mind:

  • Never share your payments profile or merchant ID with anyone.

  • Never make a payment to Google through a third party . Always pay any balance due through your Google Account .

  • To send processing commands to Google, use an HTTPS connectionsecured by 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) v3 or Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection (We don’t allow SSL v2).

  • Verify the authenticityof the server certificate presented to you.

  • To get Google notifications, specify an HTTPS callback URL secured by SSL v3 or TLS using a valid certificate from a major Certificate Authority.

  • Only accept messages authenticated by HTTP Basic Authentication using your Merchant ID and merchant key as the username and password.

  • Validate messages sent to your callback URLbefore processing them.

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Welcome to the new Google payments center help experience! You can now find support for both sellers and business consumers in one place. Learn more about what’s new .

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