[Old] Royal Mail Modules

[coffee granules]

Yup, my setup is working just fine according to the test - good work Phil! - and I will set my test user loose on it just as soon as I can figure out the current problem with the Zen Cart default checkout.

[philip_clarke]

It would probably help if I knew which default checkout ? Authorise.net or something ? The module is pretty robust, I'm over at the worldpay thread sorting some minor bugs out and just as a note, I will be having keyhole surgery on my spine on 7th November UK time. I do have an idea for releasing a UK specific google checkout though, just to remove the USA based fedex things and try and re-word some items to make it clearer as well as write some proper instructions as it's pretty hit & miss.

[coffee granules]

How do you mean which default checkout? - I don't have a card processor, so I have to use a gateway-based solution, which is PayPal by default for myself but I would prefer to get GC going if possible.

...and that surgery sound nasty, keyhole or not - I hate being in hostpital!

[philip_clarke]

Every so often you write:

the current problem with the Zen Cart default checkout

I assume from your last posting you mean paypal, but which one ? I believe there are three, IPN certainly works every time (because I used to sell plastic photographic lens caps with it).

Anyway, I prolapsed another disc about 20 minutes ago, so I think surgery is not likely. (seriously I have a lot of experience slipping discs). I have waited just over 3 years for someone to try and attempt this operation, so I am not very happy about this.

[coffee granules]

I use the express checkout. - The other two options comprise of a basic goto PayPal and do everything there version and another for hardcore merchants that has lots of bells and whistles (supposedly).

Slipped discs? - Was God simply in a bad mood when they designed spinal columns? - They must have been in your case ...and 3 years for a vital operation? - Heck, that's bad!

[philip_clarke]

I use the express checkout. - The other two options comprise of a basic goto PayPal and do everything there version and another for hardcore merchants that has lots of bells and whistles (supposedly).

I might have time next week to have a look, last time took 2 1/2 hours just to configure the server, to then find out that my modules worked but the google instructions were lacking.

Slipped discs? - Was God simply in a bad mood when they designed spinal columns? - They must have been in your case ...and 3 years for a vital operation? - Heck, that's bad!

I have random muscle spasms, normally they either dislocte a shoulder or rip a muscle, I was mugged some time ago (yes people do mug the disabled) and they kicked me between the shoulder blades and damaged a disc, by sod's law a spasm hit me right on that area and I felt it go. 3 years is a long time, especially as it's the same type of operation they tried back then. This time it's experimental and they will put an anaesthetic gel that will last 3 months into my cord. But slightly higher up. Technology has improved, but if the theory is wrong, I will still be in pain but lose the use of my leg and be in nappies for the next 3 months. Actually it might cure the pain, but still result in nappies, It has taken many MRI's and tests to even guess where they will try and hit so most of the 3 years has been spent waiting for appointments with different people giving different opinions. It has only been 10 weeks since they finally decided to give it a go as long as I know the risks and won't sue them (I was once removed from a hospital when I went to have a shoulder looked at as they reckoned it was too dangerous to touch without dislocating it and they thought I'd sue, which I wouldn't, I was there to try and get it back into place).

[coffee granules]

Well if your module worked that's something. - My GC module has given up on me completely - click on it in checkout and the page goes to do something and gives up, leaving you just where you were before you clicked, so I'm reinstalling (again!).

I really hope you get somewhere with your operations, though, - seems a shame that you cannot get in with the experimental projects being carried out in the states, as they seem to be making much more progress than we ever do in the UK with these things.

[philip_clarke]

On my test system, google checkout works correctly but the button appears on evry page and it appears to slow the system down drastically. I've turned it off because there is a "serious" problem with comments on orders that I never knew and am trying to fix.

You know when you put stuff into the comments on orders, and don't notify the customer ? I assumed that this was for internal notes, so with one very dubious person with odd delivery adddresses and multiple order cancellations, I put "possible fraud" on the order comments so I could remember. Turns out all comments whether they are notified to the client or not, are readable on the order page, so I am adding a "discreet" module, since I've been feeding merchant warnings from the payment gateways into the order comments, to protect te shop owner.

[barricades]

I don't suppose anyone has taken the time to update all the prices for international datapost / parcelforce? I noticed all the other royal mail stuff has been updated but not the datapost etc...

I'd love them forever...?

[philip_clarke]

Nope don't know if it was ever done, the updating was done by other memebers of the community while I was absent for a couple of years. I may be able to squeeze it in next week (if it need doing), but not any time very soon. A big spreadsheet with all the prices is also always helpful, it's how it was done the first time, and I don't have much time for trawling throught the royal mail website at the moment.