Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

speedcreed:

Hi greenhat,

And thanks for the response. You know- I've been suspisious of GoDaddy being the problem but am juggling so many other things with trying to get my store to the point of being 'live' that I guess I just didn't want to face the probablility of having to move to another host. But maybe that's the answer (still hoping for 'a fix' from any of the rest of you out there).

As to using Google Calculated Shipping rates: that doesn't work for my situation either. I offer check/money order payments and the Google Calculated Shipping rates do not show up on the Zen Cart Check Out page.

Let me know how moving from GoDaddy goes for you and I'll do the same if I decide that a move is all that I can do in order to go forward. (any one else? don't be shy ... help a Zenner out).:yes:

unfortunately, im now very sure that this is the only solution. just search for "godaddy" here.. you'll see so many posts complaining about their service. here's an example: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107346
and there are many many more..
im definitely moving.

greenhat:

unfortunately, im now very sure that this is the only solution. just search for "godaddy" here.. you'll see so many posts complaining about their service. here's an example: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107346
and there are many many more..
im definitely moving.

Wow. Just looked at that posted example link ... rather enlightening. And I can add that when trying to get some help from GoDaddy support recently, in relating an error that mentions something about SQL and 'Zencart' and that occurs when trying to bring up or reload my store page... the reply from GD support was something like "yeah ... sorry but we don't answer questions about 3rd party applications' -even though I used *their *Zencart Installer that is bundled in *their *basic hosting package. And the answer looked sort of *'canned' *(righhhhht ...)

So here's the ***new ***question (though not barring the possibility of a reply to the original question, which was basically: 'why don't Google Check Out work with Real Time Shipping rates?' (refer to original post by SpeedCreed, 3 or 4 posts up) ... NEW QUESTION: So then, which hosting provider have you found to be most compatible with Zen Cart running Google Check Out and Real Time Shipping while still being economical (cheap) like GoDaddy?

speedcreed:

NEW QUESTION: So then, which hosting provider have you found to be most compatible with Zen Cart running Google Check Out and Real Time Shipping while still being economical (cheap) like GoDaddy?

i wish i knew.. the official answer here is to check out the list of "certified hosts":
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=infopages&pages_id=10

here 's the summary of the hosts i've been looking at:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115306

but i dont have an answer for you yet.. i think i will just try one of them and do some tests before repointing the domain name.

SETUP: I am using ZenCart 1.3.8a + Google Checkout module v.1.4.7

LIVE, not SANDBOX

PROBLEM:

Nearly everything is working properly except for:

1. email confirmations (from the ZC store) to buyer and admin are not being sent for GC processed orders.
2. Order status changes made from ZC are not reflected on the GC order status page. For example, if i cancel an order in the GC admin page i will immediately see the order cancelled in ZC. If I cancel an order in ZC, the change will never occur on the on GC page.

Everything else related to order processing is working properly to my knowledge and the information is being passed between the two correctly.

RELATED:

I am seeing the same behavior mentioned in this post here: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=619949&postcount=2699 and this post here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-for-zen-cart-mod-support/browse_frm/thread/c30228892a802923

POSSIBLE CAUSES:

My email is managed by google, which i am assuming is related the problem, however.....

If i place an order but use another payment method, both the admin and buyer receive a confirmation email from the address set in email options.
If i send an email from the ZC email 'Send Email To Customers' form it works properly.
If i configure a third party smtp server in email options and set email to SMTPAUTH there is still no confirmation mails send from Zen. I was assuming that the google checkout module used the email settings from ZC, but perhaps it is using something else entirely?

Since the emails sent from ZC are not actually using the google servers, why doesn't the Google Checkout module send confirmation messages using the same method? (ie, PHP, sendmail or whatever is setup and working.) ?

And yes my MX records are properly set to: MX 0 aspmx.l.google.com.

MY POSSIBLE SOLUTION:

I intend to only use google checkout for this site, so would it be prudent to simply remove all account related functions from ZC? It seems drastic, but i'm actually quite impressed with the google checkout order process updating procedure so i wouldn't find doing it all from there and merely using ZC as a log of previous orders. At this point, the customers are not receiving the password that should be sent during the order process, so my options are dwindling. They can use the 'forgot my password' link to get a new one, but that's a lame workaround.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

I'm having the same issue as this person. I wasn't able to find an answer in the thread so I'm hoping someone knows how to fix it.

I'm using Zen Cart 1.3.8a and Google Checkout 1.4.7.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class googlecheckout in /home2/respite/public_html/shoppingcart/includes/modules/payment/googlecheckout.php on line 308

-Melissa

Originally Posted by cellz4less View Post
I HAVE INSTALLED GOOGLE CHECKOUT (1.4.7 AND ZEN VERSION 1.38A)

I COPIED ALL THE FILES OVER - BUT GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR UNDER MODULES / PAYMENTS IN THE ADMIN PANEL:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class googlecheckout in /home/mycellzf/public_html/includes/modules/payment/googlecheckout.php on line 308

I haven't seen this issue in the forum so I thought I'd see if anyone else has seen this. I've had GC installed and running fine for a few months or so I thought. It seems GC is only recognizing the first product in the shopping cart. If there is more than one product, it disregards it. If a qty of more than one is purchased of one product, GC sees it just fine. If there are more than 1 product in the cart, only the first one gets passed to GC. We reviewed all our GC orders over the past few months and low and behold, all orders have only 1 product in them. Has anyone else seen this?
Thanks!

misscharlotte:

Did you back up before adding GC?

Check to see if you missed something in the admin code.

Can you show us what's at line 308?

Also, tell me how you got the GC button on the shopping cart and login?

webskipper:

misscharlotte:

Did you back up before adding GC?

Check to see if you missed something in the admin code.

Can you show us what's at line 308?

Also, tell me how you got the GC button on the shopping cart and login?

I figured out my issue. Another person in the post mentioned their cannot be two files with the same name. I went back to my original zip file and the installation instructions. There are suppose to be two file with the same name (googlecheckout.php) installed at two different locations. It wasn't until I opened each file individually that I realized each of these "googlecheckout.php"s contained different code. I copied one of the files to one directory and other other file to another directory. It works fine now. I have no error messages.

Nobody has responded to my earlier question so I'm reposting in hopes that someone else has had this issue with GC.

I've had GC installed and running fine for a few months or so I thought. It seems GC is only recognizing the first product in the shopping cart. If there is more than one product, it disregards it. If a qty of more than one is purchased of one product, GC sees it just fine. If there are more than 1 product in the cart, only the first one gets passed to GC.

We reviewed all our GC orders over the past few months and low and behold, all orders have only 1 product in them. Has anyone else seen this? Can someone offer some help?

Thanks!

If anyone here is interesting in helping funding (or otherwise assisting) with the continued development of the Google Checkout Mod for Zen Cart, please contact me via PM or email (woodymod AT gmail.com).

Priority is updating the mod so it runs with Zen Cart 2.0x.

Funding continued ongoing maintenance to support ongoing changes in both Zen Cart and Google Checkout services, as well as bug fixes is a secondary goal.

Adding additional features and bells & whistles could be included but not top priority.

Woody

joepixel:

We reviewed all our GC orders over the past few months and low and behold, all orders have only 1 product in them.

I have not observed this issue. Review the XML in your local googlecheckout log files, to ensure multiple items are included in the XML.

Also may want to check the error log in your GC account.

Woody

I have switched my site to Production (after it all worked fine in Sandbox) and now when I try to hit Google Checkout it goes to the GC page and just says "Oops error" or something like that...is that just a generic error message or...?

Edit: Just checked the log and it says:

"Mon Dec 29 15:27:17 MST 2008:- Failed to Get Basic Authentication Headers"

Is Google Checkout Sandbox testing supposed to clear the shopping cart and show each purchase in the Admin panel? ...Or is that only in Production mode?

What is your domain? Let's try this out.:wink:

Have you gone through the tools, settings,orders, and integration to see if there are any errors and your orders are appearing correctly?

Make sure Google can talk to your https://site.com/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php

gobrinton:

Is Google Checkout Sandbox testing supposed to clear the shopping cart and show each purchase in the Admin panel? ...Or is that only in Production mode?

I think I discovered part of the problem. Earlier I had set the permissions for the entire http//your-site/googlecheckout/ folder to 777, so that I could experiment with the .htaccess Basic Authentication Mode script. Then I forgot to set it back to 755. This caused a 500 internal server error for googlecheckout/responsehandler.php because it was group writable.

I also noticed that purchases do not show up in admin panel if the googlecheckout folder chmod is set to 744 or 754. Alas, 755 seems to be the only setting that works for me.

Now my orders show up in admin but do not clear the shopping cart.

Still working on it.

I have a problem with google checkout not sending the province/state to zen cart when a person makes an order. Does anyone have a similar problem to this?

Help!

GC stopped charging State Taxes. What happened?

I have been using this since last year and now why it stopped charging sales tax, I don't know. Under taxes, it still knows I collect my States taxes.

webskipper:

Help!

GC stopped charging State Taxes. What happened?

I have been using this since last year and now why it stopped charging sales tax, I don't know. Under taxes, it still knows I collect my States taxes.

i have the same problem :(

Does anyone by any chance know where to change the sort order of the shipping options displayed when a customer is checking out using GCO? The default right now is showing UPS and I'd like to change that.

We currently offer UPS and USPS shipping but when customers are checking out the first option they see is UPS Ground and we want to change that USPS First Class.

Thanks!

BlessIsaacola:

Does anyone by any chance know where to change the sort order of the shipping options displayed when a customer is checking out using GCO? The default right now is showing UPS and I'd like to change that.

We currently offer UPS and USPS shipping but when customers are checking out the first option they see is UPS Ground and we want to change that USPS First Class.

Thanks!

I think this depends on which generation method you are using.

If you have Carrier Calculated Shipping set to "true" then the Google Checkout site creates the shipping price list itself and I don't think you can change it. (This probably comes from a database of prices.) If, however, you have Carrier Calculated Shipping set to "false" then Google uses your store (real time) Calculations. It knows what methods you have enabled because your site sends a file called ../googlecheckout/shipping_methods.php. (Or at least, it uses this file to build a list.) You could try changing the order of the methods listed in this file but I don't know if that will do it or not. You could also try running the shipping_generator utility that came with GC. Again, I don't know if the generator even obeys the sort order of your admin shipping modules page but it is worth a try.

This is as close as I can get you to an answer. You are on your own from here. Good luck.