Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

[optikalsaint]

Before I forget, if anyone has been able to figure this out I will be ecstatic! For some reason, Google Checkout will not give me or my clients an option to choose USPS First Class Mail or USPS Priority Mail during checkout. The only options it is displaying are USPS Parcel Post Mail and UPSP Express mail.

If anyone knows how I can make First Class and Priority Mail show up, you will be my hero!

Thanks in advance!
--Rocco

[birdoasis]

Thanks for the button placement update Woodymon.

For those of you that don't want to dig through all those url's heres the link to the button placement page.

http://checkout.google.com/seller/checkout_buttons.html

They finally realized that their original button placement took the buyer off the site, which limited the number of multiple item sells to those that are willing to click the continue shopping button which apparently wasn't that obvious to the shoppers.

The button is now further back in the checkout process but it's still not part of the actual Zen Cart checkout process which I feel is a step in the right direction but still isn't enough.

Once Google Checkout starts charging for their services I'm sure they will see allot of sites turning GC off due to their arrogance in bypassing normal shopping cart checkout services.

I don't plan on adding Goggle Checkout back to Bird Oasis because of this. Unless my wife beats me over the head with it.

I feel that if Goggle Checkout wants to be different then they can be put on a different site where they are the only checkout service, otherwise it's simply too confusing and causes more phone calls from customers wanting to pay over the phone because they don't want to create another payment account.

That's actually what happens on my site. Customers actually call me asking if there is another means of payment.

Now remember. Support for 1.4.? is on the google forum, not in the Zen Cart forum. You have to go to the following site:

http://groups.google.com/group/googl...rt-mod-support
Which is where I posted a message over 4 hours ago and still don't my post anywhere on the board.

Maybe I complain too much....Whatda ya think?

[canton]

Hi there,

We're using an early version 1.3RC2 of google checkout at http://www.ssri.biz/cart

It looks like a lot has changed since then, and the UPGRADE readme for the current version of GC doesn't tell me much about how to get from 1.3RC2 to now.

Can anyone give me a summary, or if it's an awful lot of brain surgery, is there someone on this list who's deeply familiar with Zen Cart + GC who I can hire to make the upgrade for me?

Thanks,
- canton becker
(505) 570-0635
canton [@] gmaildotcom

[oklynn]

I am having problem using Carrier Calculated Shipping. When comparing the shipping rate by USPS.com, "shipping estimator" and google checkout, GC Parcel Post shipping rate is always higher than others, but the express mail rate is the same. for example, if shipping weight is 3 lbs, the postage is $24.50 for all three methods shipped within the same zipcode. However, the GC Parcel Post rate shows $7.83, but the other two is only $4.15. For 1lb item, GC Parcel Post has %6.54, but USPS is $3.42.

I have Zen Cart 1.3.7.1 and GC v1.4.5_CCS installed. in GC configuration, I have "GoogleCheckout Carrier Calculated Shipping" set to true, and def. value is 1 for Parcel Post, and express mail. Fix charge and variable are 0. No handling fee set in usps shipping module.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Any help would be most appreciated

[imageriot]

Hi Guys, thanks for all your help so far, unfortunately GCO is still having teething problems...

I can take purchases through my store now which is great, but the sales arent being returned to Zen Cart. The error log was saying:

"We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.i-o-s.co.uk/googlechecko...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Send failed with code: 401. Response body was: Failed to Get Basic Authentication Headers"

So I had a search around the forums both here and on google and it looked like I needed to change ".htaccess Basic Authentication Mode" to true in admin which I did and I also ran Ropu's little script there too. Now the error response im getting is:

"We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.i-o-s.co.uk/googlechecko...nsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Send failed with code: 400. Response body was: Invalid or not supported Message"

Unfortunatly Im getting rather far out of my depth and don't want to risk totaly Borking GCO (again).

Thankyou everyone.

[johnga]

I am still wrestling with GC as well - after having it work for several weeks, then drop USPS as a shipping option, then not work at all - it is driving me crazy! If it wasn't for the free fees (which by the way I have already paid for because it allows customers to have free shipping!!!) I have decided to leave it on, but I did a down and dirty mod on the shipping_methods.php - I changed the text to read
'freeoptions' => array(
'domestic_types' =>
array(
'' => 'Order must be over $55'
),

That way, if the customer insists on choosing free shipping, I can e-mail them back and say sorry - you didn't earn it. This GC mod still sucks, I'm sorry to say - with apologies to who ever is working on it, but come on, spend some pennies out of those gazillions to produce something that works!

[atticus]

Noob here. I have searched the forum and have not found an adequate answer to my question. Is there a correct way to "only" use Google Checkout. I do not want to accept any other forms of payments and I planned on simply disabling the default checkout button. This thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65895 really has me wondering if I should do that? What do y'all suggest?

[birdoasis]

You have a firm grasp on what you have to do to only use Google Checkout.

You can replace the zen cart checkout button, or remove the code all together.

Also disable all other forms of checkout. I don't think that will cause any errors, but I could be mistaken. You'll have to test that.

To disable them simply go into admin, and find the payment module menu.

You may not even have to do that once you get rid of the zen cart checkout button

[jford]

I have a client that is insisting on usingi google checkout, and unfortunately I cannot get it to work. I have done it before but something is going on with his I cannot figure out.

In the admin, when I go to configure it, there are a bunch of white text boxes with no text above it telling me what I need to put in. I have put in his Merchant ID and Merchant Key and when someone goes to checkout, there is not that button for google checkout that usually appears. there are no other mods on the site.

The url is: http://bunsnbriefs.com if someone wants to take a look at the admin side for me let me know and I will PM the un/pw to you.

Thank You!!!!

[birdoasis]

GC v1.4.5_CCS is not supported in this forum. You have to go to the google checkout support page to get help with it.