Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

V1.2 RC2 fixes the location of the htaccess.php file

ropu

I upgraded to the new version of google check out and know when you click a product and add to the cart the google image doesn't turn blue it doesn't allow for the customer to click it, it stays grey any ideas why?

lextechs:

I upgraded to the new version of google check out and know when you click a product and add to the cart the google image doesn't turn blue it doesn't allow for the customer to click it, it stays grey any ideas why?

gray buttons appear because of one of these issues

• A disabled button is displayed in the following cases:
• 1. If merchant id or merchant key is not set
• 2. If there are multiple shipping options selected and they use different shipping tax tables
• or some dont use tax tables

double check point 2, see if all your shipping use Taxable goods for taxes.

ropu

ropu:

yes, it supposed to create both files!

do you check the boxes "Check if dir exists:" and "Create Files:" ??
**the require valid-user **is a directive of htaccess that tells the browser to look for valid users in .htpasswd

you DONt have to comment any code in responsehandler.php just need to enable or disable this feature from the amin UI!

just set tru to this```html
.htaccess Basic Authentication Mode with PHP over CGI?
This configuration will disable PHP Basic Authentication in the responsehandler.php to validate Google Checkout messages.
If setted True you MUST configure your .htaccess files here.

> 
> and add the htaccess with the script. .
> 
> i take notes about an easier readme file. thanks for your feedback
> 
> ropu

Thanks Ropu, the two files are now created after CHMOD from 755 to 777 on googlecheckout folder.

I noticed in one of your previous post that you said this ```
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>
```need to be somewhere. Is it still needed?

Also, you did not answer my question about how to figure out whether PHP is installed on CGI or not. If I set to True on the AdminUI and PHP is not installed over CGI what happens?

I have GC1.0.4r working in production without any need for the code/instructions about PHP installation over CGI but somehow when I upgrade to 1.2 everything looks okay but the GC button is disabled. Responsehandler.php page doesn't show any error. 

The only culprit I can think of is something is not configured right with the shipping. We offer Free Shipping Option, Free Shipper as well as Table Rate but none of these show up for Google Checkout Paypment configuration on the AdminUI. Why is that?

Thanks for all your work.

ropu:

gray buttons appear because of one of these issues

• A disabled button is displayed in the following cases:
• 1. If merchant id or merchant key is not set
• 2. If there are multiple shipping options selected and they use different shipping tax tables
• or some dont use tax tables

double check point 2, see if all your shipping use Taxable goods for taxes.

ropu

Ropu,

On point #2, I checked our setting and all our shipping module are set to use the same Taxable Goods. My questions for you is doesn't the fact that Taxable Goods only apply to two zones (in our case) affects Google Checkout button to be disable.

For example we have shipping module configured with zone set to none (meaning people can checkout worldwide) but our Taxable Goods is only configured to charge taxes for customers from 2 states in the US where we have physical location. Does this confuse GC and that's why the button is greyed out?

In GC 1.0.4r we are only using table rate as shipping option but the taxable goods still only applies to 2 states and we have no problem (except that it actually ignore the tax rule and charges no tax for customers from the two states :().

Thanks!

BlessIsaacola:

Thanks Ropu, the two files are now created after CHMOD from 755 to 777 on googlecheckout folder.

I noticed in one of your previous post that you said this ```
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

> 
> Also, you did not answer my question about how to figure out whether PHP is installed on CGI or not. If I set to True on the AdminUI and PHP is not installed over CGI what happens?
> 
> I have GC1.0.4r working in production without any need for the code/instructions about PHP installation over CGI but somehow when I upgrade to 1.2 everything looks okay but the GC button is disabled. Responsehandler.php page doesn't show any error. 
> 
> The only culprit I can think of is something is not configured right with the shipping. We offer Free Shipping Option, Free Shipper as well as Table Rate but none of these show up for Google Checkout Paypment configuration on the AdminUI. Why is that?
> 
> Thanks for all your work.
To know if you run over CGI try this
```php
<?php
print_r($_SERVER);
?>

on a blanc script.

Gray button, see my last post

Regarding payments not showing in the admin ui. This is because all them are flat rate shipping, no need of merchant calculation to be done! so shipping quotes can be pre-calculated.

ropu

BlessIsaacola:

Ropu,

On point #2, I checked our setting and all our shipping module are set to use the same Taxable Goods. My questions for you is doesn't the fact that Taxable Goods only apply to two zones (in our case) affects Google Checkout button to be disable.

For example we have shipping module configured with zone set to none (meaning people can checkout worldwide) but our Taxable Goods is only configured to charge taxes for customers from 2 states in the US where we have physical location. Does this confuse GC and that's why the button is greyed out?

In GC 1.0.4r we are only using table rate as shipping option but the taxable goods still only applies to 2 states and we have no problem (except that it actually ignore the tax rule and charges no tax for customers from the two states :().

Thanks!

im pretty sure that the issue. try putting everything to none or tax goods and see if the button appears enabled. if so, pm to see how we can fix this issue and "unconfuse" GC button :D

ropu

I've just been notified of a new feature of GC.

A new tag allows merchant-calcullation-callback to send just the active shipping address to calculate shipping quotes. <calculation-mode>
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/index.html#tag_calculation-mode

This will help with the time out issue, because if a buyer had more the one address, before we need to calculate the shipping cost for each one, increasing the timeout chance.

now we calculate one per time, so calculation time is smaller

im releasing RC3 asap with this fixed.

quick fix:
googlecheckout/gcheckout.php line 412

change this:

    $gcheck->push('merchant-calculations');
        $gcheck->element('merchant-calculations-url', $url);
        $gcheck->element('accept-merchant-coupons', 'true');
        //$gcheck->element('accept-gift-certificates', 'true');
    $gcheck->pop('merchant-calculations');
```for this
```php
    $gcheck->push('merchant-calculations');
        $gcheck->element('merchant-calculations-url', $url);
        $gcheck->element('accept-merchant-coupons', 'true');
        $gcheck->element('calculation-mode', 'SINGLE');
        //$gcheck->element('accept-gift-certificates', 'true');
    $gcheck->pop('merchant-calculations');
```ropu

ropu:

I've just been notified of a new feature of GC.

A new tag allows merchant-calcullation-callback to send just the active shipping address to calculate shipping quotes. <calculation-mode>
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/index.html#tag_calculation-mode

This will help with the time out issue, because if a buyer had more the one address, before we need to calculate the shipping cost for each one, increasing the timeout chance.

now we calculate one per time, so calculation time is smaller

im releasing RC3 asap with this fixed.

quick fix:
googlecheckout/gcheckout.php line 412

change this:

$gcheck->push('merchant-calculations');
    $gcheck->element('merchant-calculations-url', $url);
    $gcheck->element('accept-merchant-coupons', 'true');
    //$gcheck->element('accept-gift-certificates', 'true');
$gcheck->pop('merchant-calculations');

> ```php
    $gcheck->push('merchant-calculations');
        $gcheck->element('merchant-calculations-url', $url);
        $gcheck->element('accept-merchant-coupons', 'true');
        $gcheck->element('calculation-mode', 'SINGLE');
        //$gcheck->element('accept-gift-certificates', 'true');
    $gcheck->pop('merchant-calculations');
```ropu

The link in your signature still points to V1.2RC1 instead of V1.2RC3

ropu:

im pretty sure that the issue. try putting everything to none or tax goods and see if the button appears enabled. if so, pm to see how we can fix this issue and "unconfuse" GC button :D

ropu

Ropu,

I can confirm with certainty the root cause of the problem now.

If Tax Class is set to anything BUT NONE it breaks.
When Tax Class is none, the googlebutton is enabled and works for those shipping option that have tax class set to NONE.

1. I enabled 5 shipping option from AdminUI Shipping module and configured all to have a Tax Class SET TO Taxable Goods...Google install is successful with no error when I go to my url/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php. Google Checkout button is disabled (greyed out) and customer is unable to checkout.

2. I enabled 5 shipping option from AdminUI Shipping module and configured all to have a Tax Class SET TO NONE...Google install is successful with no error when I go to my url/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php and the Google Checkout button is enabled and all shipping options were presented to me during google checkout.

3. I enabled 5 shipping option from AdminUI Shipping module and configured TWO to have a Tax Class SET TO NONE...Google install is successful with no error when I go to my url/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php. The Google Checkout button is enabled BUT ONLY TWO shipping options that have Tax Class SET TO NONE were presented to me during google checkout.

At least now we know the source of the problem, we just need a solution:lol:

Perhaps this issue is related that GC is also not calculating Sales Tax in 1.0.4r even though it shows a tax line when checking out using GC.

Thanks for all your work.

ropu:

if you want to track more pages of your site, you must add that JS code.

The feature i added automatically adds that code to all the pages where the Google Checkout Button appears, also add a feature that joins Google Analytics with Google Checkout. As the link says you must activate in google analytics the e-commerce compatibility.
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/checkout_analytics_integration.html#googleCheckoutAnalyticsIntegrationEnablingEcommerceReporting

no need to do anything else.

any doubts please ask me, ill add it to the docs. im trying to have better doc, but not to easy and i dont have plenty of time, sorry for that.

ropu

I have fallowed the READ ME intructions. I do not have a Google Checkout button on my site. You can click the google checkout option at the end and then you go to a page that say's conferm order. Then you get a message that it could not connect with the smtp site.

jhaase83:

I have fallowed the READ ME intructions. I do not have a Google Checkout button on my site. You can click the google checkout option at the end and then you go to a page that say's conferm order. Then you get a message that it could not connect with the smtp site.

You are missing the directory change for the templates!

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE must be changed to your template dir.

ropu

Does anyone know if GoogleCheckout works with GoDaddy's Turbo SSL?

Thanks.

ropu,

I got the GCO1.2 to work (sort of). But I still have a few questions that I hope you can help answer.

Here is my environment: I have GCO and Paypal IPN module installed. running on 1.3.6 ZC.

1. When I add one item into cart, the GoogleCheckout button does not appear on that page. Then, I click the button "Go to Checkout", Google Check out button appears under the log in section. That's where I can check out by GCO. My question is why I cannot see the GCO button as soon as I drop an item into the shopping cart.

2. If I choose to log in onto my store as a customer, I can no longer see google checkout. Is that a feature? If so, how does my customer use the coupon code I offer on my website or how do they use the remaining balance on their giftcard? Are those doable, or still in the future development plan?

Again, Thank you very much for your hard work and help.

Thanks

BlessIsaacola:

The link in your signature still points to V1.2RC1 instead of V1.2RC3

sorry about that, copy paste err :P

ropu

Woodymon:

Thank you Ropu.

I did not mean to be criticzing and re-reading my last post I could see how it could be taken that way. My apologies. Just trying to make positive suggestions. It is difficult for us to small-time shop-owners/non-programmers to understand the complexities of what you are doing but we certainly do appreciate the effort and support provided. Again, THANK YOU for developing this mod!

And please do let us know whenever the time comes virtual goods support will be supported by Google Checkout system and support implemented in the mod ;-) Until then Paypal will have the edge for many shopowners :(

Woody

woody, and all

i passed to google guys some of your concerns. They are really open to merchant needs.

a new blog is created with all new feature requirements.

Digital Delivery*** - ability to use Google Checkout for selling digital goods*** Downloadable files The problem with this in the current Google Checkout implementation is that GC does not require the user to create an account on the site before going to GC (if you want to qualify for AdWords). How can a digital-download company associate a payment with an account if we have no information on that person?have a look to all the others.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-developers-forum/web/new-feature-suggestions-for-google-checkout

ropu

ropu:

You are missing the directory change for the templates!

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE must be changed to your template dir.

ropu

I don't understand. Are you saying I need to change the name of my "Your_Template" to YOUR_TEMPLATE.DIR?

tj1:

Does anyone know if GoogleCheckout works with GoDaddy's Turbo SSL?

Thanks.
hi tj, have a look here

http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=57856

ropu

jhaase83:

I don't understand. Are you saying I need to change the name of my "Your_Template" to YOUR_TEMPLATE.DIR?

no no, you have to add the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/template/ dir and its content (tpl_checkout_payment_default.php, tpl_login_default.php, tpl_shopping_cart_default.php) to your template dir

ropu

Does anyone have a store with this feature working on it? I would love to take a peek to see how it will look to a customer.