Hello Forum Members,

To setup Google Checkout with your E-Commerce package first login to the Control Panel of the Site. Once logged in go to Operations >> Payments.

In the payments menu you will need to select the check box next to Google Checkout. When you check this box the screen will then display all the Google Checkout Settings.

1. First thoug you will need to Sign Up for Google Checkout. Simply go to checkout.google.com to sign up for an account
2. When signed up and in Google Checkout, navigate to Settings >> Integration
3. Enter API Callback URL: https://ecompayments.monstercommerce.com/Google.aspx
4. Select Callback Method: XML.
5. In the 'Account Information' section, note your store's: Google Merchant ID and Google Merchant Key.

Now on your E-Commerce Package enter in your Merchant ID, and Merchant Key, and press save on the bottom of the page.

You will now be fully integrated with Google Checkout!

Joe

Hi Joe,

I setup Google Checkout successfully, but it is only allows me to ship to US addresses. When I used Google Checkout with my old shopping cart (osCommerce), it had no trouble dealing with international customers and merchant calculated international shipping options. I have selected the allow international customers option in the Operations tab and I have 2 international shipping options also setup and enabled.

Is this a known bug or could I be missing something.

Thanks,
Rohit

Hi Rohit,

Our integration with google checkout is set up that way for a reason. The reasoning is because when we first integrated with Google, they did not allow international shipping and this was added after we had initially integrated.

At this point in time though I do not know whether we will be changing our integration or not, so right now all you can do is domestic shipping with Google Checkout. If you need to have international shipping I recommend using a payment gateway such as NetworkSolutions Merchant Account, Paypal, or QBMS if you use QuickBooks.

Joe

I have followed these instructions exactly but when I click the Google Checkout link I get the following error page:

Server Error in '/' Application.

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.


<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Hi joeyc,

The only thing that I could think of for this is that something you have setup in your settings may not be 100% correct. I would contact support and they will be able to help you resolve this.

Joe

Thanks, they got this fixed for me, I guess I had not added the shipping origin. I have one other question though. Is there a way that I can use only Google Checkout and hide the default checkout procedure?

Thanks
Joey

I have been trying to get an answer from NS as to why Google Checkout orders are not tracking with Google Analytics. I implemented GCO about a month ago and NONE of those order completions (or bail outs) are tracking in GA. This means, every order I would have tracking data on that would have checked out using the NS cart system are no longer available. GCO is acting as a third-party cart from my site (it leaves mysite.com and goes to checkout.google.com.....) and I loose tracking at that point. Is this consistent with other people or is there something I am missing here?...other than my stats on checkouts!

I have had people at google give feedback on this issue and say it is a problem with the code on the NS server end...i.e. It is not set up properly to track from mysite.com to the google checkout URL. It is possible, and quit easy to implement this, but since it is in the NS coding, they would have to do it.

Had some help at NS on realizing this is a problem, but nothing is being done to solve it.

Anyone else in this situation?

You are not the only one that is complaining about it. The only way to track these orders is for Network Solutions to implement the Pixel Tracking method in the XML comunication with Google Servers. It is a very easy procedure, unfortunately we have no access to this part of the code.

I can't tell you how many times I have tried to explain whoever is willing to listen in Network solutions the importance of this feauture. For those of us that use Google checkout, we can't manage a PPC campaign the proper way because X amount of orders are not being tracked.

What kills me that NOONE in the organization is willing to answer a simple 2 questions:
Are you going to implement PIXEL TRACKING?
When should we expect it?

It is unfair to leave us in the dark! some of us are doing LONG TERM PLANING and we need to know if this will be implemented. It is unheard of that in 2009 managing a PPC campaign on a V7 cart is more a VOODO practice than a science!

Yahoo carts were able to implement it so why can't you?

Please don't keep us in the dark on this issue, beleive me in the long run a straight and honest answer is better than silence!

I would like to ask the developement team this question:

Do you realize the pain and the financial burden that the lack of this feauture is causing us? If you don't just call me at the office and I will explain it!

Thanks for listening

Sincerely,

Nuriel

It is really amazing how easy it is to implement third-party cart tracking to solve this problem, yet NS has no interest in correcting this oversight. How about this: On the Google Analytics Settings Page, list the code in a text box that is being activated on the site when it is turned on. If people want to change it, they can. That way, if we know what we are doing, we can change the code. If we mess it up, that is our problem and it can always be set back to the default settings you have activated. Pretty simple stuff.