[Old] Royal Mail Modules

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.

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.

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!

Every so often you write:

coffee granules:

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.

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!

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).

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.

coffee granules:

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).

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.

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.

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...?

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.

I've done the changes for World Zone 10 (USA) if anyone's interested but only for datapost.

In admin>modules>shipping>international datapost>edit then go to the box for World zone 10 and replace the prices/weights with:

0.50:43.99, 1.00:47.79, 1.50:51.59, 2.00:55.39, 2.50:59.19, 3.00:61.79, 3.50:64.39, 4.00:66.99, 4.50:69.59, 5.00:72.19, 5.50:75.09, 6.00:77.99, 6.50:80.89, 7.00:83.79, 7.50:86.69, 8.00:89.59, 8.50:92.49, 9.00:95.39, 9.50:98.29, 10.00:101.19, 10.50:103.79, 11.00:106.39, 11.50:108.99, 12.00:111.59, 12.50:114.19, 13.00:116.79, 13.50:119.39, 14.00:121.99, 14.50:124.59, 15.00:127.19, 15.50:129.49, 16.00:131.79, 16.50:134.09, 17.00:136.39, 17.50:138.69, 18.00:140.99, 18.50:143.29, 19.00:145.59, 19.50:147.89, 20.00:150.19, 20.50:152.49, 21.00:154.79, 21.50:157.09, 22.00:159.39, 22.50:161.69, 23.00:163.99, 23.50:166.29, 24.00:168.59, 24.50:170.89, 25.00:173.19, 25.50:175.49, 26.00:177.79, 26.50:180.09, 27.00:182.39, 27.50:184.69, 28.00:186.99, 28.50:189.29, 29.00:191.59, 29.50:193.89, 30.00:196.19

then update and it's sorted.

If anyone's bothered doing the rest of them and feels like sharing it'd be appreciated :)

If anyone does have the other figures, or the spreadsheet then I can always recopile the zip file and upload an updated module for everyone else.

Problem is that they get updated each year to so 1st of april 2009 they change again.

thats true, but at the same time people who use parcelforce do need to have the correct prices.

Perhaps people would be willing to do parts, if there was enough of us it would be dead easy.

I'm up for it, anyone else?

I'm releasing some security software this weekend (probably Sunday), after I've done that I'll be a little freer to have a look at the module. I could probably just release a parcelforce patch, or maybe the time has come to split the modules up a bit, if someone can just dig out the current spreadsheet showing zones and prices etc... it would help speed me up as I'll have to configure a test server anyway since I don't use them myself.

Philip.

philip_clarke:

I will now eat my own words. :no:

This is how google checkout works and it's really quite good but you have to configure it very carefully.

:smartalec: Right here goes then first off go here:

http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

and check if you get this type of error message

Cannot open /var/www/html/googlecheckout/logs/response_error.log file. Logs are not writable, set them to 777

So you set them to read write or owned by the webserver.

What happens is that you click on that Google button and it sends you to google with a call back to get the shipping rates that you have specified/ installed. When you set up google checkout then you put in default values for your service in case the call back fails, and this is why I thought it was a flat rate. So if set up correctly it goes.

• Click on button

• go to google

• google calls your shop for the shipping rates available for the weight of the item

• the rates appears in the select

if the call home fails, then it reverts to default values you have set up.

To try and diagnose the problem is a bit "tricky" visiting the googleresponse page above is helpful in that it if you have correct permission to write to your log files, then it presents you with a password access box ! This is the first time that I have seen true two way communication between a payment module and shipping rates.

So UK people,

• install "big royal mail"

• then install google checkout,

• then copy googlecheckout/shipping_methods_uk.php to overwrite shipping_methods.php.

• then visit

http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

to see if you get errors (and remember on a test site google may still not be able to communicate with your shop).

• put in default values for the UK shipping modules in case communication does fail in the google payment module.

• remove all the USA shipping options at the bottom which is irrelevant by setting GoogleCheckout Carrier Calculated Shipping to false

That should then work (paypal donations to [email protected] for having worked this through and having written the modules in the first place).

Philip.

When I try the http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php with my own site address, a box pops up and requests sign in details, have tried all the ones I can think of but none will get me any further.

put in default values for the UK shipping modules in case communication does fail in the google payment module.

Where is the question for that, as even though I don't think I can use the flat rate system, due to the items I carry, if I can get it to use the RM mod it would be great

I disagree with moving this great help we are getting to the google checkout post, as i have been reading through that for weeks, and most of the questions concerning RM and google, or the setting up of the flat rate just go unanswered.

Not blaming anyone for that just the fact most of those setting it up and discussing it on that thread are Americans and they will possibly struggle to reproduce the UK problems we are having

the other bit of copy and pasting the files across has got the google checkout showing correctly but I am getting an oopps this does not work message, and when I look at it, on google, it is saying I am getting an XML error due to 0.0 weight or something.

Any help from anyone would be great and hope all is well, after reading the earlier posts

Thanks for any help

blackjm75:

Problem is that they get updated each year to so 1st of april 2009 they change again.

Also, what I heard recently. they are supposed to be hiking the price up quite a bit this year so, anyone using RM should make sure they are ready to change these in a hurry, as it may end up costing you.

meknownowt:

When I try the http://<YOUR_WEBSITE>/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php with my own site address, a box pops up and requests sign in details, have tried all the ones I can think of but none will get me any further.

Send me an email or a PM with the site details and I'll have a look.

meknownowt:

I disagree with moving this great help we are getting to the google checkout post, as i have been reading through that for weeks

I disagree with your disagreement but still PM me.

Philip.

meknownowt:

Also, what I heard recently. they are supposed to be hiking the price up quite a bit this year so, anyone using RM should make sure they are ready to change these in a hurry, as it may end up costing you.
As I've said, I have a little time to do programming for the new prices, and I will get it done, what I do not have is the time to go and look for new price information on the royalmail website. But If someone sends me direct links I will sort out a new moudle before the price change and then no-one will have a problem.

philip_clarke:

As I've said, I have a little time to do programming for the new prices, and I will get it done, what I do not have is the time to go and look for new price information on the royalmail website. But If someone sends me direct links I will sort out a new moudle before the price change and then no-one will have a problem.

No worries, just a little bit of work for everyone, and the heads up that it may just be larger than a few pence this time.

I read it on another forum and they were mentioning something like a little over twenty five percent rise on UK postage.

Most of us will be making the changes, so if we copy and paste what we have up here for everyone else, it may make life a little easier.

Also if someone has a friend that works in a post office, they will get the price changes quite a while before hand, I seen the last rise about three weeks before they came out, as the guy that used to run the local post office was busy reading them.

And thanks for the PM

This is what is showing up in google in the error notification

Error parsing XML; message from parser is: Invalid value for attribute value in checkout-shopping-cart/shopping-cart/items/item/item-weight: Must be at least 0.0

Warnings: XML failed to validate against the schema at line: 14, column: 14, with error: cvc-minInclusive-valid: Value '-2.9' is not facet-valid with respect to minInclusive '0.0E1' for type '#AnonType_valueItemWeight'.
XML failed to validate against the schema at line: 14, column: 14, with error: cvc-attribute.3: The value '-2.9' of attribute 'value' on element 'item-weight' is not valid with respect to its type, 'null'.

The problem may just be that I have not set up any flat rate postage, as I am still working out where that goes.

But thanks to your other post I am a lot further forward than I have been for ages with this.

Thanks again