Questions about Google checkout

I'm sure I've seen this somewhere in the mega-thread on GoogleCheckout, but I can't seem to find the right posts...

1. Am I right in thinking that the client MUST create a Google account to use GoogleCheckout?

2. Does the client have to actively click the link on the Google post-payment page to return to Zencart after purchase?

3. I saw somewhere on that the merchant fulfils the order via their Google Account - is this correct? That the order info does not come back to Zencart?

4. Finally, I think I also read that Google retains all the client info that should be the Zencart owner's "property".

If anyone can confirm/deny the above, or point me at the relevant posts, I'd appreciate it.

Ryk:

I'm sure I've seen this somewhere in the mega-thread on GoogleCheckout, but I can't seem to find the right posts...

1. Am I right in thinking that the client MUST create a Google account to use GoogleCheckout?

2. Does the client have to actively click the link on the Google post-payment page to return to Zencart after purchase?

3. I saw somewhere on that the merchant fulfils the order via their Google Account - is this correct? That the order info does not come back to Zencart?

4. Finally, I think I also read that Google retains all the client info that should be the Zencart owner's "property".

If anyone can confirm/deny the above, or point me at the relevant posts, I'd appreciate it.

1. Yes. Create, or use an existing Google account. The whole point, from Google's perspective, is that a customer can use a single Google account for purchases from a variety of vendors.

2. Unsure.

3. When GoogleCheckout is correctly configured in zen-cart, the order info is sent back to the seller's zen-cart and processed from within the z-c admin, the same as an order paid with a different method.

4. Google and the zen-cart seller both have customer info, except for a direct email address and any credit card info, which Google has and the z-c merchant does not have. But there is a Google generated email address that can be used by the z-c seller for communication with the customer.

Thanks for that - I must be doing something wrong at No3 then! Back to the drawing board...

Recommend posting issues/questions to the Google Checkout mod for Zen Cart forum at http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-for-zen-cart-mod-support

Many of your questions are answered in posted document pages and pinned discussions.

v1.4.5 released today. It's not beta. ;-)

Woody

hey woody - it's hard enough locating answers here without having another site to search as well!! :D

OK, I've joined up over there, so if you'd like to nip across, I have more questions :smile:

. ..1.4.5 installed at around 11pm last night :wink: (Just happened to stumble across it a few minutes after it was posted)

Ryk:

hey woody - it's hard enough locating answers here without having another site to search as well!! :D
Do you have some real wine to go with the whine :P

Actually the new support site allows us to have mod support discussions in multiple threads, which we cannot do here, thus the reason for the new support forum :yes:

Ryk:

OK, I've joined up over there, so if you'd like to nip across, I have more questions :smile:

Ryk:

1.4.5 installed at around 11pm last night :wink: (Just happened to stumble across it a few minutes after it was posted)

I'm continuing testing v1.4.5 in sandbox mode before I turn it loose. I've already previously implemented the bug patches so the new Carrier Calculated Shipping is what I am testing. So you are ahead of me. Please let us know your ideas on v1.4.5 on the new support forum.

Woody

Grumpy old men don't whine - we make crystal clear, thoughtful observations as to how the world is completely screwed up and is not as good as it was when we were younger! :D

Ryk:

Grumpy old men don't whine - we make crystal clear, thoughtful observations as to how the world is completely screwed up and is not as good as it was when we were younger! :D

:laugh:

I suppose that is because while at the urinal there is much more time to retrospect about it all.