Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

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!

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?

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

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!!!!

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.

I've wrestling all week trying to get the GC module to work. I have the latest versions of GC and ZC installed, and got PayPal module to work fine. Then I installed the GC module (I had it working in a previous version).

Now, when I click to go to "Add This To My Cart" I get nothing...headers and footers appear, but the main page is blank.

I've also done the response_handler test and it has taken 199 seconds to get a reply from Google....seems verrry slow.

Any advice or pointing in the right direction would be appreciated!

Jim
https://www.yeomanhouse.com/Catalog

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

thanks for clearing that up for me...

I installed GC for Zen Cart, and signed up for GC and GC sandbox accounts. I think I have followed all the directions, but I am still having some issues. In my scan of this big thread I didn't see an answer to my question, so here goes.

When I check out, Zen Cart sends me to the "Step 1 of 3, Delivery Information" page. Then "Step 2 of 3, Payment Information", then "Step 3 of 3, Order Confirmation". It allows me to select Google Checkout as my payment type. So far so good.

But when I click on the "Confirm the Order" button, it just sends me back to the shopping cart. No thank you message, no e-mail, nothing shows up in the google page. It's basically completely ignoring my order, and I can't find any error messages or log files with some kind of message.

So... did I forget some critical step in the setup of my Zen Cart GC module? Any & all help is appreciated.

Thanks!

OK, I know there have been many posts about this but I still have some questions. The issue is not covered in the FAQ as far as I can see so hopefully someone will post a concise answer to my questions.

First the background:
I set up GC yesterday. I am using ZC 1.3.7 because 1.3.8 does not work with Fedex (another unseloved issue).

I have tried setting CCS to both true and false. If I set it to false, I fet my Fedex rates coming through maybe half the time. When it does not work I get this error:
"We timed out waiting for your server at https://www.essential-stuff-store.com/zencart137/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php -- the error we got is: Read timed out Your server must respond faster to merchant calculation callback requests."

If I set CCS to true, I have not yet seen Google calculated rates come through. I just get my defaults. I get the same time error.

When I place orders (in sandbox mode), they come back fine to my cart, i.e. the responsehandler is working and I am using SSL

Question 1: Why is there a read time out error when CCS is set to true? Is it not Googles own rate grabbing software that is not returning rates? Where is the timeout error occuring in the process for CC rates

Question 2: Does sanbox mode have anything to do with this? Does it work better in live mode?

Question 3: My store is on Godaddy. Is that part of the problem? I think I saw a post where someone moved there store to another server and it worked better.

Question 4: Is there anything I can tweak to improve things? I have tried reducing the number of shipping mode to three. Its pretty worthless if I have to go down to just one.

Question 5: Is there a way to calculate tax and shipping as with another payment method and then just pass these values through to GC as the final step. That way, GC is not waiting on much from ZC. A few weeks ago, I tried setting up ZC 1.3.8 with GC and I thought that mode that available. Its not in 1.3.7 which I need for fedex to work. Maybe I am not remembering accurately but it seems this mode was also sporadic.

I would truly appreciate some concise answers.

Mark
https://www.essential-stuff-store.com ( if want to try the operation)

I am not having success with GC on 1.38. After altering and patching code to update my cart, I still get a Security Error when I try to log in as a customer. When I remove GC files from my templates (primarily tpl_login_default.php as far as I can tell), my shop works fine. As long as the GC button appears, my cart is fu. Does someone have this working? It's just another pain in the ######## for me vis a vis GC!

Ok, I just installed the latest google checkout module 1.4.5. I'm running php5 and it appears to function properly with the exception of a couple small items which I'm sure I'm just missing some small details somewhere. I've tested in production and here are the couple issues. The shipping estimator for fedex is showing $1 for every option. I see that in the admin there is a section where this is specified, but it looks like I need to type in the flat rates for each option, not quite sure? UPS calculates fine though, but I don't use UPS.

The other problem is with the writeback. I setup the merchant account and key in the admin tool for this module on the .htaccess file. Does google only write back to https...my site, if I don't have the cert installed yet could that be the reason for not writing back?

Other than those issues (big) it works. The order went through, just needed to check google to fullfill it.

Hi,
If I am understanding correctly, GC is not working for you. It collects the money from the customer, which is fine. The part that I have struggled with, and finally given up on, is the call back. It has to get the shipping info from ZC and put the customer info back in to ZC when the sale is completed. It sounds to me like neither of these are working for your set-up. The $1 Fedex charge is because GC is using the flat rate chart you set up manually, (and set up, and set up, every time you reinstall GC!) Not to discourage you, but I think we are working with a "dog". Today I am going to give the mod that runs GC outside of ZC a try, to see if that will work. I can't believe the hours I have spent on this!

Gshaffer,
I have GC working with ZC version 1.3.7. I am not sure how well it works with 1.3.8. I need 1.3.7 because the Fedex module flat-out does not work with 1.3.8 (see numerous other posts on that topic).

Call back: You must have an SSL (https) to get call back to work with GC on the production sever. This is pretty clearly stated in the GC documents and I think also in the admin module settings. You must also put the call back URL in the Google seeting on the Google side. This is also spelled out in the GC module docs and looks something like https://www.yourdomain.com/sub dirs to Fedex files/responsehandler.php. I think you need the entire path, which is what I am using and it works.

Shipping: The 1$ values you are getting are the defaults set in ZC-GC admin. See my other posts on this. It is an unresolved issue. It seems that Google does not allow much time for rate info to get collected, either with Mercahnt rates or Carrier (google side) rates. I have posted asked for much more detailed clarification about this issue. My experience is that the rates come back properly intermitently. Try hitting refresh a few times in GC on the page showing the rates. Sometimes I get good rates and sometimes not. You can then look (on your Google business account) under integration/tools and you can see the error messages. It will propably say something about a read timeout. For the short term, put reasonable values in for the defaults and hope the situation improves in the future.

Updated GC mods for ZC were recently released.

mod v. 1.46a for Zen Cart v.1.37
mod v. 1.47 for Zen Cart v.1.38

For more details see:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-for-zen-cart-mod-support/browse_thread/thread/5f2ad2ef8a51750f#2833b2d9283b49b6

Also of interest is chainman's recent positive review of GC mod v.14.6 running on ZC v.1.38

See:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-for-zen-cart-mod-support/browse_thread/thread/99720f50b03e6d1f#f18cbf2c1a83e88e

If you have questions or issues regards to the latest versions of the GC v.1.4 mods post to the discussion area at
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-for-zen-cart-mod-support

Woody

And as a frequent complainer on this thread, I will attest to the fact that they work - the first time I installed them! (though I was sweating bullets while I waited for GC to calculate my freight!) Anyway - thanks for creating/posting this update... I can now love GC for the next two months, until I find out how much it will really cost me!

I have installed google checkout twice and still get the same problem. I tell it to use google checkout and when I hit submit it goes back to the screen and does not process. Also how do you post a thread in this forum?

I don't have next day are selected as a means of shipping but customers are still somehow able to select it, how do I fix this?

The authors of the the GC module support it from a Google group, not here. Try
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-for-zen-cart-mod-support.

There are seperate versions of GC now for ZC1.3.7 and 1.3.8. Make sure you have have matching versions of ZC and GC. Also, I have had better luck installing GC as the first installed module on a fresh version of ZC.

I am not sure if this is how the Google Checkout module works but when in Sandbox mode, I can do everything except that my orders never end up in Zen Cart. I have checked the response logs and I see the XML is posted back to my server. I also don't see any errors in the errrors log. I am using v1.4.7 of Google Checkout and v.1.3.8a of Zen cart w/ an SSL certificate.

check the settings on the google side and Zen side for the response handler. Make sure everything is consistent. Choose production mode on the zen side. Make sure on the google side you have the full path to the response handler in setting/integration:
https://www.yoursite.com/your_zen_location//googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

Here is mine as an example:
https://www.essential-stuff-store.com/zencart137/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

If you have all that right, try the Google support group for more detailed help. I am using zen 1.3.7 with GC 1.4.6 so maybe there is a version problem.

Mark
https://www.essential-stuff-store.com