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Google Checkout and shipping


danl

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I recently set up a Google Checkout account and added it as a gateway to WHMCS with minimal difficulties.

 

This may be a Google issue, but Google insists on including shipping information on the order confirmation email that is sent to the customer. Has anyone had experience with this and know how to make a "services only" transaction so shipping is not an option?

 

Thank you in advance..

 

Dan

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Right from Google, ya sorry I took the easy way..... URL http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_Shopping_Cart_Annotating_Shipping_Information.html#Digital_delivery

 

Make it Digital delivery!

Unlike physical goods, digital goods do not need to be shipped (or picked up in a store). If you will email your customer with instructions for accessing digital items, then you need to identify the items on your site that are digital goods. To identify a digital item, add the product-digital CSS class to any HTML tag for that item as demonstrated in the example below.

 

<div class="product">

<img class="product-image" src="beethoven_cd.jpg">

<span class="product-title product-digital">Moonlight Sonata</span>

Price: <span class="product-price">9.99</span>

<div role="button" alt="Add to cart" tabindex="0" class="googlecart-add-button">

</div>

</div>

If all of the items in an order are digital goods, then Google Checkout will not display shipping options for the items. In addition, you can not use carrier-calculated shipping methods for orders that contain digital items.

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I'd really like to see this happen. It looks like there's an API call to tell Google that it's a digital delivery. Seems that WHMCS would just need to have an option, either on the product or the payment gateway setup...

 

The CSS options posted above don't work as the push to Google is through XML. That's for when you're writing your own checkout system.

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