Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

fusionsp:

Well I am still learning everything but on GC the client transfers the money themselves like Paypal. its a per transaction fee. I just closed my intuit account to go through them. They are by far the cheapest solution out there with no monthly fees associated with usage. We also had intuit for 6 months and nobody used it. With people losing trust in credit card theft, nobody trusted us as a safe source to have their credit card info. Everyone knows google, and I installed this a week ago now and have already processed a transaction through it.

Hope this helps

ok slightly wrong...it processed my order and auto transmitted it to my bank 4 days after the monies were received

fusionsp:

ok slightly wrong...it processed my order and auto transmitted it to my bank 4 days after the monies were received

International orders will take a few days to reach your bank.

On the Shipping Info page I clearly state, "International orders will process when we get the green light from the Banks and may take a week before shipping. "

I will not ship until I receive the funds in my Bank. GC wants it this way and always get a signature for International orders.

KismetDesign:

With Google Checkout, how often do they deposit the money they collect into your bank account? Do they group it together or do it one at a time per transaction?

GC will process the orders as a daily batch. Every night about 9PM PST you will see in the Payouts window that GC sent the funds to your Bank.

Typically it takes 2 business days after the order date to reach the Bank and 2-5 for International orders. GC wants you to ship after receiving the funds so do what they ask on International orders and you may never have to pay a chargeback.

Okay, that is what I wanted to know (the batch processing). I thought I saw something on Google's site about also having the option of doing the deposits once a month? Was I reading that wrong?

I am confused about coupons, reading through this huge thread, going back I can't work out what applies now.

I have set up a coupon in admin, gone to googlecheckout as a customer in sandbox but cannot see a box to enter coupon. Am I missing something ( or maybe just missing the point), I have the latest version of Zen and Google Checkout module for Zen Cart
Last Updated by: ropu Dec 26 2007 v1.3.8 v1.4.7.

Goggle Checkout UK

Can anybody help

Okay, I know I messed up something fairly simple - just don't know what.
I installed the GC module, and set it for the Sandbox mode. Tried it out, and for some reason I don't see a shopping cart page once I order something. I can complete the checkout, so I'm assuming it's a PHP error I did while putting in the mod.
I'm using the EZ blue template, with the Local Tax mod (all of which are working). When I installed it, I didn't just copy everything over because the instructions said I should use "Option B" - edit individual files. Should I have copied everything over (Option A) and THEN edited them?
Any help would be appreciated - we'd like to get this figure out!

• Russ

therealex:

Okay, I know I messed up something fairly simple - just don't know what.
I installed the GC module, and set it for the Sandbox mode. Tried it out, and for some reason I don't see a shopping cart page once I order something. I can complete the checkout, so I'm assuming it's a PHP error I did while putting in the mod.
I'm using the EZ blue template, with the Local Tax mod (all of which are working). When I installed it, I didn't just copy everything over because the instructions said I should use "Option B" - edit individual files. Should I have copied everything over (Option A) and THEN edited them?
Any help would be appreciated - we'd like to get this figure out!

• Russ

Update - no, I can't complete the checkout. It said I did, but it doesn't show up in the Google Sandbox. After posting, I copied over everything like in Option A, and since I had already changed to files to accommodate Option B, those were still correct, too. But, no shopping cart and no Google Checkout! Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I just downloaded the latest Google Checkout module for Zen Cart. I wanted to read through the installation files first, but when I tried to open them they didn't have a valid extension.

I first tried .txt, but the information was only separated with weird squares. So I tried .html, and that worked... but everything is run together.

I manually sorted out everthing except for all the file paths... because the way it showed up was so confusing that I didn't know what went where.

Can someone tell me where I can get either a list of the files that I need to transfer or replace, or 2 new installation & read me files?

I need to get going on this very soon, and all I can do right now is read through the rest of the documentation.

Thanks!
KD

I had everything working, but Google is once again omitting the shipping costs.

Nothing has changed on our part.

Has there been a change with Google Checkout that I need to make modifications for?

Any other factors that could cause this?

We use per unit perweight as our shipping method.

Ugh, I wonder how many more people are having trouble opening the READ ME file located in the Add-On's section. I've re-formatted it for easier reading and will attach it as a zip file.

If someone could go over it quickly and make any necessary edits, then submit it to the documentation section, that would be awesome. I don't know how to do it.

-KismetDesign

KismetDesign:

Ugh, I wonder how many more people are having trouble opening the READ ME file located in the Add-On's section. I've re-formatted it for easier reading and will attach it as a zip file.

If someone could go over it quickly and make any necessary edits, then submit it to the documentation section, that would be awesome. I don't know how to do it.

-KismetDesign
I installed google checkout. when I add items to the cart and go to the checkout page I select google checkout then I click continue checkout and then confirm checkout I'm redirect again to my cart which is "main_page=shopping_cart" any solution or why this is happenning.
Thank you

KismetDesign:

Ugh, I wonder how many more people are having trouble opening the READ ME file located in the Add-On's section. I've re-formatted it for easier reading and will attach it as a zip file.

If someone could go over it quickly and make any necessary edits, then submit it to the documentation section, that would be awesome. I don't know how to do it.

-KismetDesign

Looks good. Go to http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=40 and submit it. You'll need to register in that section. In about one or two weeks they'll add your addition.

Please wait until the Google Recurring Payments is added.

Can someone give me some direction on how to implement this?

Email from Google:
Quote:
Subscriptions, or recurring billing, are now available in beta
using the Google Checkout API.:clap:

If you're comfortable building your own carts using Checkout,
you're ready to implement Subscriptions by consulting the
documentation on our Beta Features page.
Each billing recurrence is a new order, so everything you've
learned about processing orders still applies. You can let us
create these billing recurrences for you with Google-Handled
Subscriptions, or if you'd like more control, you can create these
recurrences yourself with Merchant-Handled Subscriptions.

To learn more, please read our announcement on the Blog
Official Google Checkout Blog

Any chance we can get Zen Cart back on the Approved list of E-Carts?

I wonder whether anyone can help me. I've searched through this forum and although some people seem to have had similar problems, I can't find a solution that works for me.

I tried to install GC 6 months ago and gave up because I couldn't get the shipping working correctly. I've been trying again over the last few days and still can't get it working.:frusty:

I'm based in the UK. I use only 2 shipping methods, 1 is store pickup (free for customers), the other is zonetable. 99% of my customers qualify for free shipping under the zonetable method and from reading through the forum it seems I won't be able to get zonetable working so all I want to do is not charge anything for shipping with google checkout.

Is it possible to not use any of the shipping settings from zencart (without getting any 'shipping not configured' errors, or any '..doesn't ship to this address' errors) and just use the methods I set up in the settings area of Google Checkout account?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

I have been able to get this to work except that the shipping rates always default. Unless I can get the actual shipping rates to work I can't use it.

What I want is Google Checkout to never use default values in shipping and only use actual shipping.

I don't know if this make a difference but PayPal works great. I never have any problems with shipping calculations.

Also, with PayPal I use the same account for around 80 different websites and it works great. Unless I have missed something the same isn't true for Google. With Google checkout I believe you can have multiple sites but you don't get checkout verification. I get the order via email but the order doesn't show up in Zen Cart. Is there something that can be done so that multiple websites can use the same account?

I have been working with Google Checkout all weekend and I'm stuck! I have Standard Shipping and the free shipping over a certain dollar amount working great... everything seems to communicate to Google Checkout.

One more thing to do... I have a 3 day Express shipping option. It's installed and works great if you checkout with the regular cart. If a customer chooses Google Checkout, the option to get 3 day express for a flat rate ($2 handling and $3 per item) is not there. I used the "Shipping generator" to add the info to shipping_methods.php and the "3 day express is not configured" went away.

I can't figure out what I'm missing.

If you have any ideas, please let me know!

Thanks
Nancy

ladyink:

I have been working with Google Checkout all weekend and I'm stuck! I have Standard Shipping and the free shipping over a certain dollar amount working great... everything seems to communicate to Google Checkout.

One more thing to do... I have a 3 day Express shipping option. It's installed and works great if you checkout with the regular cart. If a customer chooses Google Checkout, the option to get 3 day express for a flat rate ($2 handling and $3 per item) is not there. I used the "Shipping generator" to add the info to shipping_methods.php and the "3 day express is not configured" went away.

I can't figure out what I'm missing.

If you have any ideas, please let me know!

Thanks
Nancy

Just to cover it in one place, I added "express" (the name of my shipping module) to googlecheckout/shipping_methods.php

I found that info in another post buried deep!

Is there really no way to get shipping information over to Google Checkout if there is a zone set? How are ya'll handling international orders when you take Google Checkout? The zones work beautiful in Zen Cart. Example- I want to offer free shipping for orders over $100 and Standard shipping~ but only in the US and Canada and offer $10 flat rate international shipping, along with an upgrade for US customers for 3 Day Express.

I've actually considered duplicating my shipping modules an have Google Checkout use those only but I wouldn't know how to turn them off on the rest of the site!

Any thoughts, ideas etc are greatly appreciated!
Nancy

Hallo,
I have installed this mod, now, I have looked and looked, and Im having shipping problems. Does this actually support shipping-per-weight? I am based in the UK, and all my packages ship to the UK or Europe. Is there a way of this actually working properly as if I was using ZenCart. It seems that no one in this bazillion pages of text can answer conclusively. I know the order system works, it just shows £1 shipping on every single shipping method.

I installed Google Checkout... and am now trying it out in Sandbox mode...

When I get to the shopping cart, it has two buttons being displayed... one for 'Go to checkout' and one that says -Or use- 'Google Checkout'.

Right now we are only set up for people to use Google checkout, so how do I turn the other one off?

And... do I have to use the standard Google Checkout button... or can I use a different button that just looks better... that can take people to the same place?

KD

Ok,

I installed and used this module and things were going fine until i had a customer order an item that was backordered.

FYI, for anyone using google checkout this is a must!!!

There are 2 options for processing payments.

1. Authorize payment--this makes sure the funds are there (google does not tell you, but this is their recommended method)
2. Authorize and charge--this makes sure the funds are there and charges them the amount.

I set up mine for the second. Again, they did not make any warnings except for the pages of policies etc they have that I didnt fully read. ( so thats my fault)

I had a customer order an item that ended up not being available at the time of purchase. I notified the customer that at this time i could not ship their item, and they were fine with that stating it was a Christmas gift. Well, GC does not have any options "at this time" to select a different status other than: Charge or ship !

So since I didnt actually ship the item, i didnt change the status. Without giving me a chance to explain, refund the money, or anything...they closed my account over night. I awoke to a email stating your account is closed, find another company to process payments. I tried sending the documents to apply for reinstatement.

But they said, "Unfortunately, based on our review of your submitted documents we are unable to reactivate your account. Your Google Checkout account will remain closed.

Please note, this decision is final.

In addition, as stated in section 2b of our Program Policies we require that orders be fulfilled within 24 hours of capturing funds. Google Checkout is not currently optimized to hold funds for back ordered items.

this was their email back to me after i submitted my docs.

I liked their methods of only paying for when its used. I cannot find another company like them. If anyone knows one please let me know.

Google may have stated this all in their policy section, but terminating an account without at bare minimum 24hr notice is bad business. I recommend that anyone who still uses them to take notice of this.

We encountered an error trying to access your server at https://www.galvanizedpail.com/googlecheckout/responsehandler.php -- the error we got is Send failed with code: 401. Response body was: Failed to Get Basic Authentication Headers.

What do I need to do to make this error go away?