Ever wanted to have your own online store, but had absolutely no clue how to do it?  Leave it to Google to come up with possible one the simpliest, and cheapest, solutions ever.

According to an announcement on the Google Docs blog, there is now a system to use a simple spreadsheet in Google Docs to tie in with Google Checkout and create your own online store in three steps, or just a matter of minutes.

1. Sign up for Google Checkout
2. List products you want to sell in a Google spreadsheet
3. Place the Google Checkout store gadget on your website. (Also supported: Google Sites, Blogger, and iGoogle).

Seeing as this can be used with sites such as Blogger, which is a free blogging service from Google, every one under the sun now has the ability to open their own online store completely for free.

If you haven’t heard of Google Checkout, don’t feel bad, this is exactly why Google created this system.  This online payment system was supposed to be Google’s answer to PayPal, but it has failed to gain much traction over the past few years of its existence.  Since one of the biggest barriers to starting an online store is figuring out accepting credit cards, Google handles all of that for you without a whole lot of hassle.

While this is not a solution for people with hundreds or thousands of products to sell, it is perfect for your smaller sellers who make handmade items, have only a few items related to their blog or site and so on.  This could also be a good avenue for the ever growing number of people disenchanted with with eBay.

We here at StarterTech plan on creating a small store with this ner service for another site very soon, and once we do we will post a full review here for everyone to check out.