Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

[Ollie2]

With a bit more digging I've found a couple of references to coupons and discounts which may explain my problems.


The first mentions as tj1 has to setup coupons in GC seller account under settings, well there are no options in there that I can find to do this in either our sandbox or real sellers account.

Next I reread the developer notes and noticed
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout..._and_discounts

The key part being

• Use the Merchant Calculations API to compute discounts after the buyer reviews the order. If you choose this option, the customer will have the option to enter coupon or gift certificate codes on the Google Checkout Place Order page. This option requires you to create and operate a fast, highly reliable web service to compute discounts. (That service could also calculate tax and shipping costs.) Please see the Merchant Calculations API section for more information.
  
• Note: Merchants in the U.K. cannot yet use the Merchant Calculations API to calculate coupons or gift certificates.

It seems that coupons are handled by the Merchant Calculations API which at the moment UK Merchants don't get.

So that along with Zen not posting group discounts probably explains why it won't work for us at the moment. We can't really release the GC integration on our site until this is working as trade customers can't buy via it as they get different prices to joe public.

If anyone knows if the mod is likely to change anytime soon to integrate discounts being posted to GC then it would be great to hear. In the meantime I may have a look at the code myself but I fear it's going to be a little bit above my talent.

Cheers

[BlessIsaacola]

Issac, I have retested. Now it's working like mine, only Priority Mail International is showing.

Do you what could be the reason the others aren't showing?

At least one is working, but I really would like 1st-class international to show up, most of the packages I ship are small 2 to 5 ounces so it does make a big difference.

Please retest but using this product to test the check: http://www.clevershoppers.com/index....oducts_id=7994

Make sure that's the only product in your shopping cart and then try GC and let me know the result.

Thanks!

[BlessIsaacola]

With a bit more digging I've found a couple of references to coupons and discounts which may explain my problems.


The first mentions as tj1 has to setup coupons in GC seller account under settings, well there are no options in there that I can find to do this in either our sandbox or real sellers account.

Next I reread the developer notes and noticed
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout..._and_discounts

The key part being



It seems that coupons are handled by the Merchant Calculations API which at the moment UK Merchants don't get.

So that along with Zen not posting group discounts probably explains why it won't work for us at the moment. We can't really release the GC integration on our site until this is working as trade customers can't buy via it as they get different prices to joe public.

If anyone knows if the mod is likely to change anytime soon to integrate discounts being posted to GC then it would be great to hear. In the meantime I may have a look at the code myself but I fear it's going to be a little bit above my talent.

Cheers

Regular ZC coupon works for us using GC. The only problem is it doesn't follow the restrictions in ZC. For example if you create a coupon in ZC that is suppose to be a one time use GC will allow the customer to use it more than one time. I am in the US so this may explain the difference in our coupon usage.

It appears that the folks at Google are really not detail oriented when it comes to programming. Google terminated the $10 promotion on 5/15/07 and our customers are still getting $10 off from Google even though the button for the promotion has been updated with the standard button. I pointed this out to say that Google doesn't even do it right even when it cost then millions of dollars let alone a free mod to support the program.

[Brian the Brain]

I'm getting two entries for each new customer and order. The message from Sandbox is

"We encountered an error trying to access your server at http://www.brianmccorkle.us/store/go...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out"

I suspect, that this is the first order and the second order is entered on retry.

Using "Ropus ResponseHandler Test," the first gave an immediate error (sorry, I didn't write it down), subsequent attempts responded with "200 OK."

I'm not sure where the problem is occurring.

May be related? I had checkout_success as the continue shopping URL. That generated a Session Expired on return.

Any hints or pointers?

[BlessIsaacola]

I'm getting two entries for each new customer and order. The message from Sandbox is

"We encountered an error trying to access your server at http://www.brianmccorkle.us/store/go...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out"

I suspect, that this is the first order and the second order is entered on retry.

Using "Ropus ResponseHandler Test," the first gave an immediate error (sorry, I didn't write it down), subsequent attempts responded with "200 OK."

I'm not sure where the problem is occurring.

May be related? I had checkout_success as the continue shopping URL. That generated a Session Expired on return.

Any hints or pointers?

Your return page cannot be checkout_success. The reason for this has been discussed in previous posts. I am not sure if that's related to your problem or not but I will start there by changing the return to page to another page that DOES NOT require custom login.

[tj1]

Please retest but using this product to test the check: http://www.clevershoppers.com/index....oducts_id=7994

Make sure that's the only product in your shopping cart and then try GC and let me know the result.

Thanks!

No, retested with that product, still the same, this is the only available option:
USPS: Priority Mail International ($21)

[BlessIsaacola]

No, retested with that product, still the same, this is the only available option:
USPS: Priority Mail International ($21)

Hmm...I am lost for answers. I am just glad that we get less than 1% international sales so for us this is really not a critical problem. Hopefully, when someone else takes over this mod they will fix this or perhaps Woody and Chain_Man can provide a solution.

[cam_oai]

I am trying to install the latest version of the the Google Checkout module (google-checkout-zencart-v1.3RC2). I mod'ed the files as per the instructions. When intalling the module I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: zen_cfg_select_shipping() in /home/content/e/o/v/eoverhead/html/store/admin/modules.php(283) : eval()'d code on line 1

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

*edit* man, so blind LOL. forgot to change the admin folder, uploaded the "admin" folder to a wrong path....how blind

[dkerfoot]

Help!

I installed Google Checkout - had problems with it and decided to give up on it for now. But the errors from the test orders I ran are still coming. I deleted the orders and have selected to not receive e-mail notifications for orders - but they just won't stop.

It has been three or four weeks and I've tried everything I can think of to stop the error notifications. What am I missing?

Help!

[Woodymon]

If anyone knows if the mod is likely to change anytime soon

Yes it will. Not sure how soonest but still in development...

to integrate discounts being posted to GC then it would be great to hear.

And not sure if discounts are being worked on at the moment.

Google Checkout mod does not process "order totals" mods as we want/need. As I've posted previously, I hope to see the "Better Together" mod discount which is an "Order Totals" type mod, supported by Google Checkout.

Wish I could be of assist.

Woody