Error: Shipping Methods not configured -- Google Checkout

[Santari]

I am setting up a UK store using Zen Cart 1.3.7.

Everything was working yesterday before I added a testimonials module. Now I'm getting problems at the login page.

Underneath the login button I have a greyed out Google Checkout button.
And under that there is message "* The Cart is empty",
followed by "Error: Shipping Methods not configured".
Then there is a list of my shipping modules with the word (ignored) after each one.

You can see the display at http://www.newvisionaries.net/zen/in...ain_page=login.

Shipping works perfectly when a customer is logged in and goes through checkout.

I have uninstalled the testimonials module, yet the error message remains. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Santari]

I did a lot of research on this and discovered that there was only one problem and something that looked like a problem.

The Google Checkout button is shown as grey and unclickable on the login page. The reason for this is that "GC policy requires shops supporting GC to not require buyers to login to the shop to use GC. If the button was missing a buyer might not observe that the shop supports GC and therefore think they must login to the shop to submit an order."

This sounds a little lame in my ears but it does make sense, for it allows customers to bypass the store account create / login process (something that many people have previously asked about in these forums). However, customers coming to the store need to have a better indication that something is not wrong. So I amended the text in /includes/languages/english/modules/payment/googlecheckout.php from "The Cart is empty" to read "Your cart is currently empty. This button will be active when you add an item to your cart". This provides missing information to a prospective customer.

I also found out I was using GC v1.4beta1 and needed to upgrade to v1.4.5. http://code.google.com/group/google-...rt-mod-support.

I uninstalled the GC payments module and installed the new one, then regenerated the shipping methods from the GC module panel, and inserted the code from it into /googlecheckout/shipping_methods.php.

That made everything right again.

At some point though I will include an explanatory page about Google Checkout so that customers understand why the login page looks the way it does.

[simonbbc]

Hi

Santari

Can you tell me how to generate shipiing methods please I am having a big load of trouble with this for Country I want to send to....
I know about the generator but do I have to do this for each country??

If I do this I only get one weight / price to enter...

I'm lost anyone help please?

Simonbbc
www.simonbbc.com

[lcanton]

Hi, do you find how to configure the shipping?

Thanks,

Leonel

[palagio]

I have had google checkout plug in installed on my zen cart but it is not working,
The google checkout button is greyed out and cannot be clicked, I get the following error
* There are multiple shipping options selected and they use different shipping tax tables or some dont use tax tables
Error: Shipping Methods not configured
table2 (ignored)
table3 (ignored)
Pay pal checkout works fine.
How do I get the shipping methods configured properly or this error fixed?
In the posts above it is mentioned that this error will not occur once items are in the cart, but my error still occurs when products are added live in the cart
currently using v1.3.9g

can anyone please advise

regards

[matbourne]

Google Checkout Shipping Method Generator:

yourdomain.com/googlecheckout/shipping_generator/shipping_method_generator.php

Good luck with it though as it hasn't helped me with either Zone Rate Shipping or Table Rate/Multiple Table Rates.

Any tips much appreciated...

[matbourne]

After spending all day on this, I have actually managed to get Google Checkout working successfully using 3 different Table Rate Shipping options.

You can see it in action on the site I have been developing below:
http://luxurylingerieboutique.co.uk

If anyone is still having problems with Google Checkout and Table Rate Shipping (or other shipping modules), i'll try and help out via the forums if I can, or you can PM me...

[dropbop]

After spending all day on this, I have actually managed to get Google Checkout working successfully using 3 different Table Rate Shipping options.

You can see it in action on the site I have been developing below:
http://luxurylingerieboutique.co.uk

If anyone is still having problems with Google Checkout and Table Rate Shipping (or other shipping modules), i'll try and help out via the forums if I can, or you can PM me...

Hi matbourne,

Is there a posibility of sharing how you sorted the problem. I am looking at the shiping generator and it just confusses me and I have 3 shipping modules showing as ignored in the shopping cart.

Been trying to figure this one out for months, but need to get it done now because its been like that too long and showing eroros on a shopping cart page will just keep turning customers away.

Cheers

DB

[fakeDecoy]

I'm in a similar situation, but I appear to have gotten farther than the above poster. My shipping modules are mzmt and freeshipper. My problem is as the shopper is transferred to Google's website, the Shipping & Handling line has a greyed out dropdown box. So I must not be specifying a shipping method correctly.

Here are the contents of my googlecheckout/shipping_methods.php file. Should 'table1' be something else? Where do I get the right thing to put there?

$mc_shipping_methods = array(
                        'mzmt' => array(
                                    'domestic_types' =>
                                      array(
                                          'table1' => 'Ground/Freight',

                                           ),

                                    'international_types' =>
                                      array(

                                           ),
                                        ),
                        'freeshipper' => array(
                                    'domestic_types' =>
                                      array(
                                          'table1' => 'Ground/Freight',

                                           ),

                                    'international_types' =>
                                      array(

                                           ),
                                        ),
                                  );										
										

$mc_shipping_methods_names = array(
                                         'mzmt' => 'United States',
                                         'freeshipper' => 'United States',
                                        );