Checkout by Amazon Zen Cart Plug-in

[Limitless]

will checkout by amazon ad-on work with zencart 1.5.0? anything I need to change/add when using this on 1.5.0 if it will work? thanks guys.

Yes, it appears to work.

[patg]

I am trying to upgrade my existing 1.0 CBA to the new 1.1 that was released. I am showing a 500 result for the callback on the Amazon error console under my merchant account.

The install guide references "2. Signing Options" and the MWS key but the admin ui provided buy checkout_by_amazon_admin.php still only allows the old AWS settings, I see nothing for the new MWS credentials. Where are the MWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key supposed to be configured?

[buildingblocks]

Hi

I've spent a day and a half trying to get checkout by amazon to work on my 1.5.0 cart. I have made much headway. Regarding the call back functions for shipping and tax. If I have callbacks enabled I get the error numerous folks have reported.


We're sorry!

We're sorry, but we're currently having problems retrieving order details from the merchant, and cannot process your order. Please return to the merchant's website and try placing your order again.


Can anyone tell me if it is curl that handles the callback function? I think it is but I'm not certain.

[buildingblocks]

Hi

I've spent a day and a half trying to get checkout by amazon to work on my 1.5.0 cart. I have made much headway. Regarding the call back functions for shipping and tax. If I have callbacks enabled I get the error numerous folks have reported.


We're sorry!

We're sorry, but we're currently having problems retrieving order details from the merchant, and cannot process your order. Please return to the merchant's website and try placing your order again.


Can anyone tell me if it is curl that handles the callback function? I think it is but I'm not certain.

Well I've discover the warning message is a result of CBA having a problem with my ceon advanced shipper mod. If anyone has this working with advanced shipper......did you have to do anything special with the CBA files to make them work together?

[patg]

Well I've discover the warning message is a result of CBA having a problem with my ceon advanced shipper mod. If anyone has this working with advanced shipper......did you have to do anything special with the CBA files to make them work together?

Are you sure this is the issue? I see the same "Were sorry.." message from the callback but I am not running your addon shipping module. I am dissappointed with Amazon; they throw out new code but offer no support. I tried to IM the AmazonPayments account here but the queue is full and they do not care enough to reply on this forum. Note that if you go to the error console on your Amazon account you will see that the callback returns no data although the original order was sent through just fine. It is not clear how the new released plugin utilizes the Amazon MWS settings that I received numerous email on from Amazon and the newly released plugin admin still only references the old AWS identifiers. To be honest I have no time or desire to sift through the PHP code. I have removed the Amazon payment option from my website for now and will likely pull my Amazon product ads as well. It is just not worth my time to work on their code so they can make a profit via click and processing fees when they do not care enough to make it work.

[buildingblocks]

yes, what was discovered were the ® characters being passed back to amazon during callback. I removed the ^® tags from the ceon adv shipper language file and then amazon was able to read the shipping rates. Perhaps you had characters included in your shipping rates that amazon wasn't able to read.

Still trying to get it working fully with zen cart 1.5.0. Amazon is trying to help but it's a process

The last two hurdles is the return url to actually come back to my site after checkout and for standard integration to work where customers stay on my site to pay rather than going to a payment page off-site. But test orders are being recorded to zen admin and in my amazon account,

[jill8026]

Seems Checkout by Amazon has gone MIA and their support for this mod is horrible. I do not know if anyone can point me in the right direction but I have everything working in terms of an order being able to placed, order and proper shipping calculations are being passed to the Amazon Seller area as well as the Zencart admin - but what I am missing is the Amazon buttons in the orders detail page to be able to allow me to "process" the orders so they update in seller central.....my understanding is that after an order is placed about 10-15 minutes later it will be removed from "pending" and at that point via the XML it should update in my zencart admin to the buttons for processing.

I have a cron job setup as per the documentation, have reporting set to XML on the hour - but nothing is coming through...

Anyone have any tips here?

[city1227]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to zen cart , currently installed checkout by amazon to zen cart.

Everything work in that module, but some time product model number and attributes like size, color are not showing up on order page.

i checked the database table and amazon payment table record the size ordered by customer and other attributes but order attribute tables does not save that data some time.

Looking for solution of this thing.

Mike

[city1227]

I haven't seen anyone else mention this (maybe no one else sells on Amazon too), but this has happened twice more now. Once on Nov. 17th and again tonight, March 17th. Today it dumped 207 orders in there all which were Amazon orders.

I turned off the cron job after it happened the last time thinking that might be the culprit, but apparently it isn't.


Anybody have a clue why this is happening?

Also....

Hi have you ever find out the solution for attribute problem.
if yes please let me know

[DivaVocals]

What a POS/CF this add-on is turning out to be.. First I need to get this off my chest..

<rant>
Can we talk about the confusing and occasionally INCOHERENT documentation for this add-on??? There are SO MANY places in this readme which refers to things in the Amazon Seller account which DO NOT MATCH the instructions in the readme.. Couple that with the fact that it's not always CRYSTAL clear where configuration should take place in the Zen Cart admin and where it should take place in your Amazon Seller account..


Seems like yet another major "player" developing something for Zen Cart then abandoning their support.. (Google can ya HEAR ME???) When was the last time anyone from Amazon responded HERE on this forum???
</rant>

I suspect I'll be putting up a few posts as I muddle my way through this mess. But wanted to share a solution I found for one issue I was having.. When you get the error

We're sorry, but we're currently having problems retrieving order details from the merchant, and cannot process your order. Please return to the merchant's website and try placing your order again.

and then click the link to return to your website, I was getting a blank page and the error log reads:

[12-Jan-2013 19:37:52] PHP Warning:  require_once(../checkout_by_amazon_constants.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/public_html/checkout_by_amazon/library/AmazonMerchantClient.php on line 30
[12-Jan-2013 19:37:52] PHP Fatal error:  require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../checkout_by_amazon_constants.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mysite/public_html/checkout_by_amazon/library/AmazonMerchantClient.php on line 30

Found that if I edited the following file as follows: checkout_by_amazon/checkout_by_amazon_constants.php

Find:

require_once('../checkout_by_amazon_constants.php');

Replace with:

require_once('checkout_by_amazon/checkout_by_amazon_constants.php');

One problem down.. who knows how many to go..

**Have I mentioned how much I am hating this add-on???**