There is no fix for GC not showing on step 2. It's against their policy of being an express checkout, not a choice of payment to be mixed in with the rest.
I do have a suggestion for anyone wishing to be able to use the order update feature of zen.
I wrote to support at GC and posed my dilemma of needing to update my customers using ZC but that, since google created the account on the customer's behalf, it's impossible for them to log in to view the order.
Support wrote back asking if there was any way I could create a "generic" password to give GC customers. Well, I have Master Password installed but there's no way I am going to run the security risk of making that known to every GC customer I have, so I came up with this idea...
It's a clunky work around, I'm aware, but if they have no way to log in, then by offering GC we have basically allowed Google to hijack the entire order process and any additional functions of the admin post sales.
GC doesn't even give the order the same order number as what's on my cart, so I forsee a lot of needless time spent having to play detective and match up GC orders to ZC orders. Frankly, I am too busy for that and depend heavily on the admin features. If I didn't need all the tools in admin I might as well just have an html page with "buy now" buttons.

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