Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

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Originally Posted by mpercy

You will have to modify a couple of lines in that script to point to your web server in the HTTP::Request->new() line and put in your google checkout id and merchant key as the username/password in the $req->authorization_basic() line.

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mpercy. You may want to submit your script to Ropu on the GC mod for ZC forum (community support forum). And then if he or others from Google give it an ok, then can possibly host the script on the support forum.

http://groups.google.com/group/googl...rt-mod-support

Testing payment module related scripts from non-official sources, including simple post scripts that require one to hard code your merchant key, sounds bit risky to me.

Also note many hosts are setting up mod_security rules preventing use of lwp.

Woody

well, I've struggled to install this blessed thing for several hours - all I get is a "runaround" - the cart goes from step 3, back to step one, ad infinitum............:huh:
I thought Paypal integration was appallingly complex - this has it beat, hands down:shocking:
Amongst other problems, how the heck do you sign up for a sandbox account? - if you prod the appropriate buttons on the Google site, you end up signing up for another merchant account............the site seems to be full of revolving doors, sign in for this, sign in for that, and end up in a state of total desperation..........:lookaroun
I am on the point of giving up.........the link to the Google site "help thread" is of no use whatsoever........primal scream therapy beckons!:wacko:

got the sandbox sorted, but the cart still goes round in circles!!!!!!:frusty:

Please re-direct me to the correct thread if this is the wrong place for this question:

Is there a Google Checkout module that starts after the shipping, like the PayPal module does? This module is re-doing a great deal of the store's software, and I want to avoid that. Isn't there a simpler integration, that just takes the total amount, as calculated by ZenCart, and then bills for that?

I must be missing something, because it seems to me that it would be simpler for all concerned.

Thanks.

I very sorry thati am askinh you to repeat your selfs but this thread has 210 pages :O i hae clicked a few and not found what i was looking for.

I have installed Zen Cart 1.3.7 and the Google Checkout Level 2 with shipping calc...

The problem is that when you click check out it gives option for PayPal Express, to login or sign up and check out using Google check out,

Now even this is clicked and all details are entered it isn't using the shipping rate i entered using the shipping module Zone Rates (based on weight) still when the order is completed it don't record the order in admin ajust stock etc and when it gets back to the check_successful page there isn't a ref/order number, also if the customer didn't login before they checked out using google after they pay it and go back to my site it just goes to login page with a time out error??

Any help would be great thank you!

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Originally Posted by carlozdre

I finally did it. Some tips on what and how I have done, I hope it helps:

Specifications:
Zen Cart v1.3.7
Google Checkout v1.3RC2
PHP over CGI server (private SSL certificate)

Issues:
1. My orders aren't shown in Zen Cart Admin section/Customers/Orders if the customer checks out with Google Checkout. I've been able to checkout but nothing more. [Done]
2. My shopping cart not clear itself after a live Google transaction. [Done]
3. Products With Attributes Stock v4.4 installed. This is still an issue for me, it doesn't update on itself.

I've had an "HTTP Basic Authentication failed. Can't retrieve Merchant Id/Key, Installed over CGI??" message in response_error.log from googlecheckout directory.

How it worked for me (live mode):
1. CHMOD googlecheckout directory to 777 with Filezilla (right click on the folder, choose "File attributes", write 777 in "Numeric Value" field and pressed OK)
2. Set the .htaccess Basic Authentication Mode to TRUE (in Zen Cart Admin/Modules/Payment/GoogleCheckout) and pressed the Update button from the bottom.
3. Ran the htaccess.php from http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/admin/htaccess.php
a) Unchecked Sandbox Account
b) Filled Merchant ID and Key with the ones from my real account.
c) Checked "Check if dir exists:" and "Create files:"
d) Clicked "Create"
4. Closed the window and checked on my webserver; .htaccess and .htpasswd files have been created in the googlecheckout directory (sometime it takes a while to refresh, close the connection to the server and open it again)
5. CHMOD googlecheckout through cpanel/File Manager of my server to 755 (this is a must in my opinion in order to work)

If it doesn't work, you must check the response_error.log and response_message.log from googlecheckout directory after you place an order. Also, look for your order number which is listed in your Google account and check in the Settings/Integration/Integration issues what is happening there. On my previous unsuccessful attempts I had 403 and 500 errors and all were due to the fact I didn't really CHMOD the googlecheckout directory properly (from cpanel).

I'm not a specialist and it’s possible to be wrong on some points but it worked for me. So please correct me if this is the case. I've wrote this after I read several pages with no real/direct info on how to get this done and I noticed there are many others in my situation.

*sorry for the way this post is written, english is not my native language

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I have been having the same problem and have been reading threads since yesterday and this seems to be the one to help BUT.

Im using Zen Cart 1.3.7 and GC 1.4.5 with the trublue 1.5 templete

I installed the GC via placing and replacing the files in the correct direct as stated in there instructions (and double checked this since).

I dont have or have been asked by the GC installation notes to place/have any files in this directory 'Admin/Modules/Payment/GoogleCheckout' so i can't do this. In fact there isn't a module directory in my admin folder.

Does anyone else have any ideas or help regarding this, also is it possbale to have google check available only when a customer has signed in or created an account as part of the checkout?

Thanks in advance

I installed the version 1.4 and used it in Sandbox mode.

My site is bilingual: English and Chinese.
It works great in the English mode.

But, in Chinese mode, when I use googlecheckout, the Chinese products name could not be displayed correctly, I have setup my google account to accept all Character set.

My site (English and Chinese) is in UTF-8 encoding. The mysql uses utf8 character set.

In what way, I could change the code to get the Chinese display properyl in the google checkout page?:huh:

My ZenCart is 1.371

I am a little confused with the README file, what is the difference between Merchant Calculated Shipping and Carrier Calculated Shipping? I just want to use the same shipping methods I use for all the other payment options (which is just USPS) but when I test Google Checkout I only get a dropdown with the fixed rates I keyed in and no calculation. Can anyone give me the answer to getting this to work?

Very nice, very detailed step by step explaination but I get this error in google admin

We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://secure.hostmonster.com/~shop...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Send failed with code: 401. Response body was: Invalid Merchant Id/Key Pair

I did checkout in sandbox, it is supposed to post the order into zen admin correct?

Has anyone been able to use Google Coupon codes with the Google Checkout Module yet? I talked to google and they said my site is using Merchant Calculations therefore it will not be able to take advantage of google coupons. I want to offer my buyers a $1 coupon if they use google since google is not charging transaction fees through the end of 2007.

Thanks,
Rob

I like the idea of Google checkout, hopefully this will make paypal sit up and start earning their fees! (or reducing them) However, I don't think there are enough customers out there (in the Uk at least) that are actively using Google checkout. This is something I am going to leave until early/mid 2008 to integrate. At the speed Google move on the dev front, I am sure there will be a multitude of updates/tweaks over the coming months...210 pages!

Pete

ps. does this support free shipping?

While I had Google Checkout in sandbox mode I had a note on the site not to use Google Checkout but someone did use it and I got an order through the sandbox. I went ahead and charged the customer in the sandbox. Does anyone know if there will be a payout in the sandbox or will I need to contact the customer to pay again in the production environment?

By the looks of things Google Checkout has some issues and is not compatible with my business model. I probably missed something too, but heres my Google Checkout laundry list:

1. Google checkout does not appear on list with other payment options in the checkout area (step 2 of 3 in the Checkout process).

2. If customer Clicks Google Checkout and makes the purchase and then clicks the link to return to my site, instead of getting a "Checkout_Success" they get a message: "Whoops! Your session expired."

3. On order receipt (from Google) it specifically says,
"Problem with this order? Contact mycompany.com" But when customer clicks the link it takes them to Google checkout!"

That sucks as I update the status of my orders through Zencart.. NOT Google.

4. Google (sandbox) orders are not showing up in my Zencart "orders" area. Either i did something wrong when I the Google module or Sandbox orders don't show up in orders.

5. Google Sandbox customers are NOT added to my list of customers in Zencart.

6. I hate the "Hide my email address from this merchant' option in Google Checkout.. I wish that option could be removed. I would like to have a real email address to contact my customer on if at all possible. I am in a high fraud business and I just feel comfortable knowing as much as possible about my potential customer/thief.

7. Following the Google Instructions for this module. Google Checkout is now listed Above my Paypal Express checkout button. I honestly feel that they have taken it too far! I was happy with the Paypal button where it was and moving the Paypal button down a notch for Google just doesn't look right! The Paypal button looks funny down at the bottom now.

I want Paypal to be the first choice a customer sees until we can work out the rest of the issues I have with Google Checkout.




Any help with any of these issues/points is appreciated. I'm sure some of the advanced users on the forum will have some awesome feedback.


Rich

IM having these problems to and after around a week of more then one post of help nothing, i have read most of this forum and others with no real solution.

I can tell you why number 2 is happening, basicly when they click google it don't ask them to sign in first, if you do sign in then check out with google you get the checkout success screen and not the time out screen, but this still doen't record the order in zen cart or even issues an order number.

i have now ripped the google mod out!!

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Originally Posted by Tmw-Websites

IM having these problems to and after around a week of more then one post of help nothing, i have read most of this forum and others with no real solution. .....i have now ripped the Google mod out!!

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Well.. right now I have the module installed on my test store. I have two stores on my site.. a live one and one for testing things out.

What really sucks about Google is the lack of organized straight forward step by step support. You can check through hundreds of pages of forums, wiki's etc.. basically staring at your monitor and clicking your mouse for days or weeks on end until your eyes are literally bleeding. :lamo:

To make Matter Worse GOOGLE CHECKOUT SANDBOX MAY HAVE JUST MAXED OUT MY F#CKING :censored:CREDIT CARD!

I logged into my store, created an account and went through the process to see if the Google acct was integrating properly and updating my customer list in Admin. I used real Credit cards.. Thinking it was all Sandbox and it wouldn't charge me.

I then logged into the seller sandbox and click process. No biggie I thought


I Check my Admin of store nothing is there.. but I get a sales confirmation from Google. A few minutes later I read Google Support Forum only to use certain 'Fake Credit cards numbers .. and they give you list of cards to use!. :oops:

So IF I'm Charged .. I'm F#cked:censored:! I am overseas now. To a replace my USA bank cards here is NOT an easy task! :cry:It cost me about $85.00 just to have one sent over to me by my family via Fedex when my wallet was stolen a couple months ago. (regular mail just magically disappears if there is anything of possible value in it).

I called my bank and they said..
"We'll cancel the card if you cant get a hold of Google". That's just great!

Honestly I don't think anyone can get a hold of Google!
At least Paypal has a number to call if there is a problem!

So this is great! Unless this gets sorted quickly I will be here sitting on my ###### with No Access to my Money and possibly Overdrawn on my US bank account with a bunch of BS charges from the Google Checkout Sandbox!


So here I am .. contemplating.. canceling this card.. and having my other cards that (were replaced and sitting back home waiting for me) Fedex'd over to me so I can use them. All at another charge of $85 for FedEx which I will have to ask my family to fork out till I get back home!


God Bless America and:censored: F#ck Google Checkout!

These are the precise reasons I am leaving it untill next year to install. I can't imagine Google ever having a customer help number, to be honest I'm surprised Paypal have one (used it a couple of times). You're lucky if you get a reply to emails sent to Google support, even when you do it's just a generic answer.

I think we need someone like Richard Branson (Virgin) to start in this field, Virgin checkout. C'mon Richard!

Pete

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Originally Posted by mediathing

I think we need someone like Richard Branson (Virgin) to start in this field, Virgin checkout. C'mon Richard!
Pete

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Now that would be nice!

Got it installed and it I received an email that I was paid for items. HOWEVER, there is no record in the cart and the items still show as unsold - I only had one of each.

I really hope that this is an issue that I can correct. I cant imagine that GCO was design for Zen Cart but does't actually work with the cart other than to make GCO available. Anyone have any siggestions? Thanks!

That's about as far as I made it.. For now I'm giving up.. util I get obsessed wuth the idea of making it work again.

Anyone have a solution for the error that shows up in my GCO integration error log:

Ids are integral numbers, but you sent:

i would like integrate the google checkout buttom at index.php?main_page=checkout_payment like a payment method, what i have to do?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by ropu

Angel, you should do two things.

First disable the default checkout button,.

in default installation includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_shopping_cart_default.php
line 132

Then in the login page you should also add a redirect to index.php?main_page=shopping_cart this will avoid buyer to enter regular checkout through there.

im pretty sure thats all you need to do.

you can also remove from googlecheckout/gcheckout.php line 521 this code

HTML Code:

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<td align="right" valign="middle" class = "main">
 <B><?php echo MODULE_PAYMENT_GOOGLECHECKOUT_TEXT_OPTION ?> </B>
</td>

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so - Or use - string is not shown

ropu

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How exactly do I do this? what do I do in line 132 can someone elaborate a little more, would appreciate your help.

Ok,

Seems like i am having the same problem as everyone else.
Orders do not show up in admin.

We have the correct URL in intergration and have permissions set to 777.

Also have a recognised ssl.

The following error we get in google admin is: We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://j********k/store/googlecheck...sehandler.php; the error we got is: Send failed with code: 400. Response body was: Invalid or not supported Message

Any ideas?

Regards

Adam

I have a great idea on how to fix this...

Login to your admin panel,
Click on Modules,
Then Payment,
Click on Google Checkout,
Click Remove...

Worked great for me, all my problems gone....

I now hate GCO..paypal for me it is...

So with 211 pages is there a consensus? Does this module not work? Customers on my site who choose gc get a choice of paying nothing or paying $1 for shipping - which is not what I want. Do I turn it off until this is figured out, or just bump the default shipping to a rate I can live with? It would be good if someone could create a definitive sticky for this thread that lets zc ers know whether the dang thing works or not.

To be honest I still don't like the fact that GC circumvents the zen cart checkout system.

The not so easy installation and updates is also a big issue.

I like that it's free, but when they start charging I'm not sure I'm willing to bother with it unless they charge less than paypal.

Which brings me to another problem. I tried going just Google, but customers that come to my site from ebay still want to use paypal. By using google checkout paypal got upset that the GC button was seen before the paypal button.

I tried to appease them by putting the paypal logo on the home page but they want to be above gc, and gc wants to be above paypal. It's like a sibling rival thing or something. Merchants don't have time for this type of squabbling, nor do we have the money to pay someone to update the script whenever there's an upgrade.

Unless they GC changes the way the module is installed before they start charging I can see a mass exodus of stores that currently use them.

The good thing about it will be when Paypal decides to drop their rates once they see what GC is going to charge to be more competitive.

It's kind of funny when you think about it.

I have just about had it with this payment module. Hopefully someone can help...

I get the following error in the error log of the integration page in my GCO account:

Ids are integral numbers, but you sent:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<send-buyer-message xmlns="http://checkout.google.com/schema/2" google-order-number="">
<message>tghg</message>
<send-email>true</send-email>
</send-buyer-message>

It is apparnt that that the google-order-number is not included. My question is how do I make this work? I asked the folks at Google and I got the info below. This didnt help me. Can some help me or just point me in the right direction?


"Each time you send any kind of XML order command, you'll always need to include the particular Google order number that you intend to affect or change. The add-merchant-order-number command only ascribes a particular order number that your company would like to reconcile on your own back-end. However, when your callback handler is parsing out order notifications and your servers prepare to respond with an XML command, at that time you should parse and insert the associated Google order number. Depending on which version of the sample code you're using, you can find detailed instructions on how to configure this properly in your environment at:

http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/samplecode.html "

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Originally Posted by johnga

So with 211 pages is there a consensus? Does this module not work? Customers on my site who choose gc get a choice of paying nothing or paying $1 for shipping - which is not what I want. Do I turn it off until this is figured out, or just bump the default shipping to a rate I can live with? It would be good if someone could create a definitive sticky for this thread that lets zc ers know whether the dang thing works or not.

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I think you have answered your own question...211 pages...does this mod work....They say nothing is free, and in this case that's exactly what you get "nothing" for free.

Pete

I respectfully beg to differ

Installation was a challenge. Like many parts of Zen-Cart, the setup of Google Checkout is somewhat distributed. I was having a number of the problems listed, in some cases angrily, above.

They seem to have passed. Here is what I have learned and found as troublesome areas:

• Set up with the sandbox first (duh)
• Be careful copying keys
• Be VERY SURE to use the cgi-PHP patch if you need it
• Get the correct callback url. Note that the production version requires SSL, so you need a certificate
• Fully set up your tax zones or they will not work. GC needs the data to do the work
• When you convert to production, be sure to correct all the settings, including those mentioned above.

I am a refugee from Drupal, which barely made GC work. Oh we got along more or less, but the integration did not work on my site and the users got really confused. I am a Zen convert and am glad that Google is working. That's a 2% boost on revenues till the end of the year.

Something for nothing? Sometimes it works. Bravo to the contributors.:clap:

I would like to use it so hopfully someone can help me. My issues is two posts above.... do the google not visit these boards anymore??

Well, I got that error till I had the settings right. It went away.
Which of the settings, I am not sure, but it can be made to go away.

I wish that made me feel better about this mod... if you remember the fix that would be great.

I will post the same question... do the folks that Google that created GCO for ZC still address issues on these boards?

I did get this module to work finally. I followed the steps above, including the CGI mod, and it works. It does not bounce the information back to ZC, so once the customer leaves to pay with GCO, the history of the transaction is all in the GCO records, with no record of the transaction in ZC, including the customer info. Not sure if this is the way it is supposed to work, but i can live with it.

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Originally Posted by johnga

I did get this module to work finally. I followed the steps above, including the CGI mod, and it works. It does not bounce the information back to ZC, so once the customer leaves to pay with GCO, the history of the transaction is all in the GCO records, with no record of the transaction in ZC, including the customer info. Not sure if this is the way it is supposed to work, but i can live with it.

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Hi,

No it was designed to callback to ZC with the info in Admin.

Regards

Adam

Anyone know how to correct this error

"Ids are integral numbers, but you sent"

What's happening is the order is null when the ZC sends info back to GCO after the order is placed.

I installed Google Checkout on my guinea pig site a month or so ago and decided it wasn't worth the headache to continue playing with it. Therefore the module was disable and never installed on my 'live' site.

I'm thinking about giving it another try now but have just one question before I dive into it again..

Is the Google checkout option supposed to display on the in the payments area with your other payment options? Or, Is Google Checkout and "express checkout' type module only?

If I decide to play with this again it would be nice to have Google checkout display on my customers payment option along with my Moneybookers, Paypal, Money Order and EFT payment options.




Rich

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Originally Posted by rich_li_ny

I installed Google Checkout on my guinea pig site a month or so ago and decided it wasn't worth the headache to continue playing with it. Therefore the module was disable and never installed on my 'live' site.

I'm thinking about giving it another try now but have just one question before I dive into it again..

Is the Google checkout option supposed to display on the in the payments area with your other payment options? Or, Is Google Checkout and "express checkout' type module only?

If I decide to play with this again it would be nice to have Google checkout display on my customers payment option along with my Moneybookers, Paypal, Money Order and EFT payment options.




Rich

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Hi Rich,

No this is not meant to show in the Payments area and yes it is like Paypal express.

Regards

Adam

Well google support were excellent.

I emailed them for help and within 3 hours they emailed me back and now my orders form google checkout are showing in the Admin of zen

Regards

Adam

What email address did you use?

I just installed version 1.4.5 and did two test order. The order went through and I got emails in both seller and buyer email accounts from google checkout. However, the sales didn't show up in Zen Cart admin under customer or order. Is this correct, or I missed something? Thanks.

I am still at a loss from reading these threads to see if anyone did get the table shipping to work.

Is it a tax zone issue?

You would think google would want our money...now who am i kidding...

if anyone has ficed GCO table shipping then I would love a recipee

gary

theironyofitall##################

Google Checkout shipping is working for me - I can't exactly describe what steps I took to get it working, but a big part was filling out the form:

.htaccess Basic Authentication Mode
Your site Site in installed with PHP over CGI?
This configuration will disable PHP Basic Authentication that is NOT compatible with CGI used in the responsehandler.php to validate Google Checkout messages.
If setted True you MUST configure your .htaccess files here.

Because after i did that, it worked. Also, I created a tax class called freight, which I made taxable at 0%, to satisfy the warning about different tax and shipping that I was getting.

I have only had one order so far with GC, and it did not give me the response back to my ZC admin, but I have reconfigured that, and I think it is now all working properly.

I got a sale with google checkout tonight and received an email from google stating that the following error was encountered:

We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.abcjewelrydepot.com/goog...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

I have no clue what this means or how to fix it. But the result is that no data is making it back to admin about the sale. Can someone help with this?

Jason

Does anyone here actually get mail rates reliably calculated by google, either via your merchant shipping or the google carrier shipping?

I almost always get default shipping rates and rarely get actual calculated rates.

I have a fresh install of zencart 1.3.7 on a dedicated server with loads of power.

Tom

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

I got a sale with google checkout tonight and received an email from google stating that the following error was encountered:

We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.abcjewelrydepot.com/goog...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

I have no clue what this means or how to fix it. But the result is that no data is making it back to admin about the sale. Can someone help with this?

Jason

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Somehow this issue resolved itself. The problem was that the hierarchy of the certificate was inaccurate. Now its showing up properly.

Jason

Does anyone know how to make the free shipping option show up on Googlecheckout only if the purchase amount is over a certain figure? I had free shipping options enabled but it showed free shipping on every order in Google. Now that it's disabled it doesnt show free shipping in google even though free shipping correctly appears for other checkout methods.

Jason

It would be nice if the Google Checkout module would actually behave like any other payment option. Instead of galloping off to Google right after looking at the shopping cart, just hold its horses and wait for shipping, tax rate, special request comments, etc to be added in the normal course of checking out. Then go off to Google when it's time to process the payment.

Looks like we might have to maintain entirely separate tax, coupon, and shipping systems for Google as for everyone else. If I'm reading the developer documentation correctly, we have to send the entire tax rate table via XML with every order? Possibly before the customer has even logged in..? So far this payment option isn't worth the effort.

Has anyone else had luck disabling the big out-of-place Google Checkout button and shifting GC over to the regular payment options list? I can do it in the templates but it doesn't actually go off to Google at the proper time.

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it does not require DOM or DOMXML (libxml) libraries installed

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I think that should answer part of your question.

I, too, would like a response on the php5 question.

Wow! What a long thread.This was meant to be in response to a post on 29 Sept!

Hi

We've been using Google Checkout with Zencart since June, and its been great.

once today, and twice yesterday we had orders whereby the shipping fee had to been applied - basically showing up as '£0.00' and we've lost out on the shipping charge.

This mainly happens on orders to the UK, but we've had it yesterday on Netherlands.

When i put the same items in the basket, and 'test' it - it works - I can not replicate the error of 'free shipping' being given away.

I'm using 'Zone Rates' and the weights (as an example are)

Zone 1 Countries
BE,LU,NL,JE,GG

Zone 1 Shipping Table
30:7.20

Zone 1 Handling Fee
0

and

Zone 6 Countries
GB,UK

Zone 6 Shipping Table
30:6.50

Zone 6 Handling Fee
0

I have no idea where to even look - does Google make a log on our website?

thanks
matt

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Originally Posted by mbeale

Hi

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once today, and twice yesterday we had orders whereby the shipping fee had to been applied - basically showing up as '£0.00' and we've lost out on the shipping charge.

snip

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Just found this in the admin for google checkout...

Default Values for Real Time Shipping Rates
Default values for real time rates in case the webservice call fails.

Zone Rates
domestic_types
Zones Rates
international_types
Zones Rates intl

Presume this is the £0.00 value ?!

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Originally Posted by oklynn

I just installed version 1.4.5 and did two test order. The order went through and I got emails in both seller and buyer email accounts from google checkout. However, the sales didn't show up in Zen Cart admin under customer or order. Is this correct, or I missed something? Thanks.

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I found that if I set the googlecheckout directory to 777, then the orders showed up in both Zen Cart admin center, and buyer account, and shopping cart also got cleared. When I set the directory back to 744, then the problem happened again. How can change the directory permission back ?

Thanks for the help.

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Originally Posted by brimsjewelry

Does anyone know how to make the free shipping option show up on Googlecheckout only if the purchase amount is over a certain figure? I had free shipping options enabled but it showed free shipping on every order in Google. Now that it's disabled it doesnt show free shipping in google even though free shipping correctly appears for other checkout methods.

Jason

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Is GC calculating other rates correctly? If not, this might indicate GC can't communicate with your zencart to get merchant calculated shipping. If this is the case, it will always display the free shipping option.

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Originally Posted by bouncey

It would be nice if the Google Checkout module would actually behave like any other payment option. Instead of galloping off to Google right after looking at the shopping cart, just hold its horses and wait for shipping, tax rate, special request comments, etc to be added in the normal course of checking out. Then go off to Google when it's time to process the payment.

Looks like we might have to maintain entirely separate tax, coupon, and shipping systems for Google as for everyone else. If I'm reading the developer documentation correctly, we have to send the entire tax rate table via XML with every order? Possibly before the customer has even logged in..? So far this payment option isn't worth the effort.

Has anyone else had luck disabling the big out-of-place Google Checkout button and shifting GC over to the regular payment options list? I can do it in the templates but it doesn't actually go off to Google at the proper time.

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GC is not just another payment module. It's an alternate checkout.

GC gets shipping, tax rate and other discounts from your zencart.
You don't have to maintain anything separate.
Have you yet installed GC or tried a test purchase using it?

I'd like to change my shipping to a charge by weight table. Can someone putup a sample table or code so that I can construct one with the proper charges?

Can you also tell me where to put the code?

Thanks,

JP

I just recieved the following error this morning:

Quote:

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We've made several unsuccessful attempts to send order notifications to your notification callback URL, https://www.cooltechcentral.com/goog...nsehandler.php As a result, you aren't receiving order status, risk, or other notifications.



To help you identify the issue with your callback URL, please review the errors we encountered while sending notifications to you. To review this error information:

Sign in to Google Checkout.
Click on the Settings tab.
Click Integration.
Error messages will appear under 'Integration Issues.' If necessary, you can also update your callback URL in the 'API callback URL' box on the same page.

For more information about receiving notifications via the notification API, visit http://code.google.com/apis/checkout...l#notification.

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What could be causing this, and how do I update to the latest version of googlecheckout.

ctcentralinfo,

Check the permissions on the googlecheckout folder, on the responder.php file, and see if you have an .htaccess file in the folder.

Set the permissions on the folder and responder file to 755 and then you have to wait till they try again.

Anyone else know of a way to make gc check for access right away?

I've found another problem with GC. Since GC bypasses the shopping cart, it seems to also bypass inventory control for Zen Cart. If it can update the member script, it should also be able to update inventory control.

Any ideas?

In referance to my previous request for help below, I found where to put the code, in the googlecheckout.php file. But I still need a working table so that I can add the right pricing.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by birdoasis

I'd like to change my shipping to a charge by weight table. Can someone putup a sample table or code so that I can construct one with the proper charges?

Can you also tell me where to put the code?

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I had this working, someone could place an order, pay with google and then I would receive order info in my admin. But suddenly it stopped! My orders can still be paid for, however I do not receive any info for the order.....
This just started in the last week or so. Any ideas?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tj1

GC is not just another payment module. It's an alternate checkout.

GC gets shipping, tax rate and other discounts from your zencart.
You don't have to maintain anything separate.
Have you yet installed GC or tried a test purchase using it?

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Actually I tested it this morning. You are right that it somehow gets the shipping options. I am surprised. But it fails to get sales tax info.

At the moment I use LadyHLG's local sales tax mod due to state law. I must collect tax according to destination address, not by zone. Officially I'm supposed to look it up on a map or use a ZIP+4 database, but my state will grudgingly accept a plain ZIP lookup in weird hardship cases.

Since GC theoretically supports taxes by zip code, there should be a way to use the same tables and logic as the local tax mod. But it doesn't yet. Other payment methods don't have this problem, they get the tax right, because they only come into play at the proper point in the process. Unlike this one.

While I see the advantages in outsourcing all account management (privacy for customer and limited data exposure risk for merchant), it still annoys me in many ways. This makes me lose control over the checkout experience -- any special instructions or explanations that might I want to give at various points don't seem to appear. And I haven't found a way for the customer to pass comments back with the order.

In other words, there's a lot of room for improvement.

Link for how I know that the system can theoretically handle tax-by-zip: XML API Developer's Guide

Ya know... If Google really wanted to add a big heap of value for merchants regardless of cart system... They should figure out what other big online retailers (Apple comes to mind) are doing to get tax info for all jurisdictions. Then do similar to provide the correct tax rate for the rest of us with no extra setup. Keep it updated when rates change too.

So if the customer enters an address, if it's in one of the states that the merchant flagged as requiring sales tax, then the correct tax rate automatically appears...

That would be very cool.

Correction, responder.php should have been responsehandler.php

There is a way to test the repsonehandler.php file. you'll find the responsehandler-test.php file here

http://code.google.com/p/google-chec...downloads/list

Quote:

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Originally Posted by birdoasis

ctcentralinfo,

Check the permissions on the googlecheckout folder, on the responder.php file, and see if you have an .htaccess file in the folder.

Set the permissions on the folder and responder file to 755 and then you have to wait till they try again.

Anyone else know of a way to make gc check for access right away?

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ATTN: Helpme,

First, your choice of usernames makes it hard to address you since it makes me look like I'm asking for help myself. haha

Login to your google checkout account and click settings, then in the left menu click integration and see what error is there.

IT may not be much help but it will give us a clue as to if the responsehandler.php file has a problem.

JP

Quote:

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Originally Posted by helpme

I had this working, someone could place an order, pay with google and then I would receive order info in my admin. But suddenly it stopped! My orders can still be paid for, however I do not receive any info for the order.....
This just started in the last week or so. Any ideas?

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This is the error I recieved:

Quote:

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Related order: 502798289507786
Time of occurrence: Nov 7, 2007 5:45:10 AM EST
Error: We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.cooltechcentral.com/goog...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Send failed with code: 500. Response body was: <br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function getallheaders() in <b>/home/wwwcool/public_html/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php</b> on line <b>112</b><br />
Warnings:
XML We Sent:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<new-order-notification xmlns="http://checkout.google.com/schema/2" serial-number="502798289507786-00003-7">
<timestamp>2007-11-07T08:05:19.000Z</timestamp>
<shopping-cart>
<items>
<item>
<item-name>Acer AS9300-5415 Notebook Computer</item-name>
<item-description></item-description>
<unit-price currency="USD">864.17</unit-price>
<quantity>1</quantity>
</item>
</items>
<merchant-private-data>


<session-data>44050a399b3bd6e99856dbd96916a5f0;zenid</session-data>


<product-data>;35561</product-data>


<ip-address>220.225.22.173</ip-address>


</merchant-private-data>
</shopping-cart>
<order-adjustment>
<merchant-codes />
<total-tax currency="USD">0.0</total-tax>
<shipping>
<flat-rate-shipping-adjustment>
<shipping-name>Standard flat-rate shipping- Table Rate</shipping-name>
<shipping-cost currency="USD">8.5</shipping-cost>
</flat-rate-shipping-adjustment>
</shipping>
<adjustment-total currency="USD">8.5</adjustment-total>
</order-adjustment>
<buyer-id>658846956283917</buyer-id>
<google-order-number>502798289507786</google-order-number>
<buyer-shipping-address>
<contact-name>Jamie Bird</contact-name>
<company-name></company-name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<phone></phone>
<fax></fax>
<address1>NEX DCOSAS</address1>
<address2>267 5th Avenue, Suite B-1</address2>
<city>new york</city>
<country-code>US</country-code>
<region>NY</region>
<postal-code>10016</postal-code>
</buyer-shipping-address>
<buyer-billing-address>
<contact-name>antony crosbie</contact-name>
<company-name></company-name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<phone>212 321-3023</phone>
<fax></fax>
<address1>405 Lindenbaum 6-9-2</address1>
<address2></address2>
<city>koyama</city>
<country-code>JP</country-code>
<region>TOKYO</region>
<postal-code>142-0062</postal-code>
</buyer-billing-address>
<buyer-marketing-preferences>
<email-allowed>true</email-allowed>
</buyer-marketing-preferences>
<order-total currency="USD">872.67</order-total>
<fulfillment-order-state>NEW</fulfillment-order-state>
<financial-order-state>REVIEWING</financial-order-state>
</new-order-notification>

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Google Checkout works! After killing myself for a week, the GC installation works! I swear i tried every possible change, update, code combination, begging for help etc. Here is what made it work - I upgraded my site from PHP4 to PHP5. The end. it started working exactly as it should, immediately. Go figure. I'm buying myself a beer and it's only 8 am.

I think real support for this mod is now at
http://groups.google.com/group/googl...rt-mod-support

I'm tearing my hair out with GCO, i've spent two days trying to get this to work, and am completely stuck now.

I'm no expert in this at all, but have carefully followed all instructions. I have created an account on the google sandbox for testing purposes.

From the shopping cart, when the google checkout button is clicked i receive a 'page cannot be displayed' error.

I've run the response handler test http://demo.globant.com/~brovagnati/...ndler_test.php and have received the following results:

HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:47:25 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="GoogleCheckout PHPSample Code"
Set-Cookie: zenid=28a49d68aec7bbd24c3a6148b4408663; path=/; domain=www.hubooks.co.uk
Vary: Host
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Cache: MISS from proxy.globant.com
Proxy-Connection: close

Failed to Get Basic Authentication Headers

Please can someone throw me a lifeline and help me get to the bottom of this.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, wondering if anyone can help with this problem. I have Google Checkout with the Royal Mail contribution. My sandbox is set up and I've got all my shipping methods into the shipping_methods.php. No errors on the shopping cart page, but I am getting this error when pressing the googlecheckout button to make a purchase:-

<error serial-number="6fa24740-613d-4110-9027-6b8918b85499">
−
<error-message>
Error parsing XML; message from parser is: cvc-maxLength-valid: Value 'Royal Mail &lt;b&gt;Airsure&amp;reg;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i style=\&quot;font-weight: normal\&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Small Packet&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;: Airmail Express delivery in 2-4 working days. &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;Parcel requires a signature, tracking can be provided. Delivery to United States : 0.080 kg(s)' with length = '302' is not facet-valid with respect to maxLength '255' for type '#AnonType_nameMerchantCalculatedShipping'.
</error-message>
</error>


Thankyou.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ---kate---

Hi, wondering if anyone can help with this problem. I have Google Checkout with the Royal Mail contribution. My sandbox is set up and I've got all my shipping methods into the shipping_methods.php. No errors on the shopping cart page, but I am getting this error when pressing the googlecheckout button to make a purchase:-

<error serial-number="6fa24740-613d-4110-9027-6b8918b85499">
−
<error-message>
Error parsing XML; message from parser is: cvc-maxLength-valid: Value 'Royal Mail &lt;b&gt;Airsure&amp;reg;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i style=\&quot;font-weight: normal\&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Small Packet&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;: Airmail Express delivery in 2-4 working days. &amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;Parcel requires a signature, tracking can be provided. Delivery to United States : 0.080 kg(s)' with length = '302' is not facet-valid with respect to maxLength '255' for type '#AnonType_nameMerchantCalculatedShipping'.
</error-message>
</error>


Thankyou.

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Looks like I've found an answer. Just had to shorten all my sentances! :smile:

problem.. my checkout installation times out when trying to access the API.

I get this error: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out


I alsoI tried the responsehandler test at:https://demo.globant.com/
~brovagnati/tools/responsehandler_test.php


I got this:
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:33:13 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/
1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28
OpenSSL/0.9.8b PHP-CGI/0.1b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-
check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4
Set-Cookie: zenid=2abe2dff1e2ab9aa78d08cffce0fbb75; path=/;
domain=wishgiving.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Cache: MISS from proxy.globant.com
Proxy-Connection: close

Invalid or not supported Message


Everything else works fine though, but the responsehandler isn't relaying my settings over.

I need some serious help with the shipping part of GC.

I have read 63 of the 101 pages on this thread and I am none the wiser.

The error I get is

* There are multiple shipping options selected and they use different shipping tax tables or some dont use tax tables


and in the admin

Royal Mail 1st Class Recorded Signed ForTM "Packet" rm1stpacketsf not configured!

Royal Mail International Signed For® "Small Packet" rmamisfsmallpacket not configured!

Royal Mail specialdelivery® next day specialdelivery not configured!


What am I doing wrong.

Eddie

Anyone on Royal Mail settings above?

Hi
I believe I solved this by creating an tax class called Freight, and setting it to 0. Then you can apply this tax to free shipping, and Google accepts it. Sorry I can't be sure, but I tried about 1000 variations when trying to get Google set up. The good news - it does work! Good luck.

Thanks for the info - but this didn't work for me.

* There are multiple shipping options selected and they use different shipping tax tables or some dont use tax tables

[Set up as you, I think]

Can you confirm exactly what you did and how you have it set, or anyone else please!!!


Eddie

Will this module work with 1.3.6? I'd like to add it but I am not ready to move to 1.3.7 ....

Hi,

I have gotthe checkout working but when i go throught to google, VAT is not charged to the basket. However it is charged correctly at 17.5% on the site for all other checkout options.

Can anyone shed some light?

Regards

Adam

I have installed GC module as per instruction with Sandbox account but when I clikc GC button I get a page Error 400 bad request. I need help!

If anyone wants to check I got a Level 2 integration working in production of google checkout-zc-1.4.5 and zencart-1.3.7.1 at http://isooz.com

Took me a few days to set it up, but the longest I had to wait was for the webhosting company http://www.webcity.com.au to install the SSL certificate, they were a little slow.

Luis

My host has the setting 'allowoverride' set to NONE, i believe for GCO to work i need to have this as 'authconfig' so how and where do i set this?

I tried to do this in a .htaccess file, but since I'm new to this i'm not sure if i'm doing it right.

Please help.

I've finally got it working!!!!!!!!!

basically, my host told me that they did have 'allowoverride authconfig' on my virtual server (or whatever the correct term is), but they did spot the mistake in my .htsccess file which I would never have known...the path to the .htpwd was missing some directories before 'var/www/html' - so be sure to double check with your host that this is indeed the full path to a certain file.

GC, discount coupons and gift certificates! Oh, my!

Scenario one, only gift certificates in the cart: Google goes by the rules and refuses to apply a discount coupon.

Scenario two, any other non-virtual store item in the cart along with the gift certificate(s): Google applies the coupon to everything (gift cert. included)!

I can't allow people to purchase gift certificates with a discount applied. Any ideas, thoughts, comments, etc.?

Info: all of the directions followed to a T on creating gift certificates and everything on Zen cart side working great. Hey, even Google's working great as long as you don't buy something non-virtual along with it.

Thanks in advance!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by cherryo

GC, discount coupons and gift certificates! Oh, my!

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REVISED:

GC, discount coupons and "deny" items! Oh, my!

Problem: When cart is filled with "deny coupon" items along with "allow coupon" items, GC allows coupon to be applied to the entire purchase.

Details:
Google Checkout seems to apply coupons to items it should denying when the cart is mixed with allowed items (not just gift certificates as I thought in the prev. post).

Settings: Discount Coupons Product/Category Restrictions with a deny on gift certificates and other non-virtual test products.

When cart has just "deny coupon" items: no coupons are allowed. Yeah! :clap:

When cart is filled with "deny coupon" items & "allow coupon" items: coupons are allowed. Ugh! :frusty:


Thanks for any help!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tasleem

I have installed GC module as per instruction with Sandbox account but when I clikc GC button I get a page Error 400 bad request. I need help!

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I tried all options of module but still the same problem "bad request"

Hi guys, I know this has been an issue for a few people now....

I have installed google checkout (on two seperate installs of zen cart on different servers both running php 4.3.1 to see if it was an error the first time I tried) I have an activated google checkout merchant account aswell. I have entered the merchant ID and merchant key, everything going fine up until here...

When I go to make a test purchase to see if google checkout is available I can select it as a payment option on 'step 2 of 3 payment information'. I then press the continue to checkout button, which then takes me to '3 of 3 order confirmation' if I confirm the order it takes me straight back to my shopping cart contents.

I am unsure if I have successfully configured the ssl callback on google, could this be the reason for the checkout 'loop', if so is there any usefull documentation on ssl implementation for GCO + ZC?

At no point on my site do I see the google checkout 'button' only the choice to select GCO as a payment option via the radial checkbox.

thanks very much to anyone who can help me.

I have also tried this with a sandbox account which gives me exactly the same result

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tasleem

I tried all options of module but still the same problem "bad request"

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Is there any Zen-Google support person to whom I can get help

Quote:

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Originally Posted by imageriot

Hi guys, I know this has been an issue for a few people now....

I have installed google checkout (on two seperate installs of zen cart on different servers both running php 4.3.1 to see if it was an error the first time I tried) I have an activated google checkout merchant account aswell. I have entered the merchant ID and merchant key, everything going fine up until here...

When I go to make a test purchase to see if google checkout is available I can select it as a payment option on 'step 2 of 3 payment information'. I then press the continue to checkout button, which then takes me to '3 of 3 order confirmation' if I confirm the order it takes me straight back to my shopping cart contents.

I am unsure if I have successfully configured the ssl callback on google, could this be the reason for the checkout 'loop', if so is there any usefull documentation on ssl implementation for GCO + ZC?

At no point on my site do I see the google checkout 'button' only the choice to select GCO as a payment option via the radial checkbox.

thanks very much to anyone who can help me.

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To anyone else having this problem I have solved it, it was human error on my part, when I uploaded the fileset, I didn't put the files that are meant to go in my template directory in the correct one, once I had rectified this everything was fine.

Hello All

We've installed this contrib on our test site which also has an SSL cert installed. And while you can pay for a products in the Google CHeckout Sandbox, it is not sending the user back to our site site unless we client to return and then we get the Session Expired page and order is not stored in the database...

Am I missing something? Or is this really a problem?

Thanks

Andy

Hello:

I've seen this question asked a few times but never a straight answer. Can I add a coupon in ZenCart and have it automatically added to my GoogleCheckout account? Or do I have to keep coupons in two places?

If the latest GoogleCheckout allows me to do this can someone give me some hints as to why I can not get it to work?

thanks!

Chris

I have a similar problem it image riot...

I have installed the Google check out and it's fine so long as the user doesn't login. When they do login to the site the payment process won''t work if the user chooses another payment option (say money order) and it keeps sending me back to Step 2 or 3 and won't go further.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Andy

I am getting orders in Google Checkout but they always get the following error:

We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.batteriesforipod.com/......nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Sending failed with HTTP response code: 401. Response body was: Failed to Get Basic Authentication Headers

Does anyone have a solution. I did a search but nothing came up. Is there another outlet to post problems besides here?

Thanks

Quote:

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Originally Posted by iang000

I am getting orders in Google Checkout but they always get the following error:

We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.batteriesforipod.com/......nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Sending failed with HTTP response code: 401. Response body was: Failed to Get Basic Authentication Headers

Does anyone have a solution. I did a search but nothing came up. Is there another outlet to post problems besides here?

Thanks

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Do your orders come through to google checkout, but not show up in admin? if that is the case then you need to follow instructions on geting your api callback to work. check that you've put the correct callback url in the merchant account of google, and also check if you're running php over cgi, if so .htaccess file will need to be created and .htpasswd

Quote:

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Originally Posted by chabbu

Do your orders come through to google checkout, but not show up in admin? if that is the case then you need to follow instructions on geting your api callback to work. check that you've put the correct callback url in the merchant account of google, and also check if you're running php over cgi, if so .htaccess file will need to be created and .htpasswd

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Yes, the orders go through perfectly on Google Checkout but they do not get into Zencart at all. How do I check if I am running php over cgi? I use Network Solutions host. Do I need to ask them? The .htaccess is presently set to false in the parameters.

I set up the .htaccess file and now I get the following error:

We timed out waiting for your server at https://www.batteriesforipod.com/zen...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Read timed out Your server must respond faster to merchant calculation callback requests.

Ok,

You setup your .htaccess file, but what are the permissions on the googlecheckout folder and the responsehandler.php file?

765 for Googlecheckout folder and 664 for responsehandler.php. What are they supposed to be?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Thieving_Gypsy

I have a similar problem it image riot...

I have installed the Google check out and it's fine so long as the user doesn't login. When they do login to the site the payment process won''t work if the user chooses another payment option (say money order) and it keeps sending me back to Step 2 or 3 and won't go further.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Andy

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Is anyone else having this problem where you can't checkout via the standard route after the GoogleCheckout has been installed?

Thanks

Andy

I have GC working properly, except I am not able to view the orders in the admin section. I can receive orders at Google and get an email when an order is placed.
I have added the API call back in both the Sandbox and production server. I do have a security certificate installed. Both logs are set to 777. I get no errors reported in the logs or at Google.
Also, when I try to access this file via a browser: https://mysite.com/catalog/googleche...nsehandler.php
I get a log in screen requesting a user name and password.

I am using Zen cart V 1.3.7 and GC Module V 1.4.5

I have read the read me and installation file a thousand times and followed it to the "t", and nothing.

Any ideas?

Hey Woody,

Can you send me the readme file from the 1.3.? version of GC. I need to know what files were changed. I screwed up my upgrade.

Thanks,

A frustrated JP

nevermind, I found it.