Amember and Google Checkout

Discussion in 'Payments processing' started by s_teachings, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. s_teachings

    s_teachings Member

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    Any plans to create an aMember payment plugin that will work with "Google Checkout"?
  2. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    There is one I believe, but I don't recommend using it.

    Google Checkout requires that you be able to complete a transaction without creating an account on the 3rd party site. Until aMember has a means by which to deal with this, sites will continue to get removed from the checkout program by Google for violation of the terms.
  3. henald

    henald New Member

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    How does it "know"

    How would google checkout know that the transaction has created an account on the 3rd party site?
    My question: what makes for a 3rd party site? is it amember itself? or is the google checkout process so restrictive that, for example, I could not have my script generate an XML request to whomever i want?
  4. franciscus

    franciscus New Member

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    Where in the Google Checkout policies does it say that you cannot require your customer to create an account?
  5. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    https://checkout.google.com/seller/policies.html
    That being said, they have just recently made an addendum that may circumvent that rule:

  6. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    Because they regularly audit sites.

    I received this notice a while back:

  7. franciscus

    franciscus New Member

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    Thanks, skippybosco!
  8. rapid

    rapid New Member

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    I am also been contacted by Google Checkout Team that they inactivate my Checkout Badge because I am collecting user info.

    In the Google Checkout API new-order-notification, it can pass the user shipping info.

    Has any one have a solution to deal with this or have a suggestion how we can parse this notification message and create member in aMember?

    Thanks in advance.
  9. rapid

    rapid New Member

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    Alex,

    How can we get the user info such as name, address, order items from the Google Checkout new-order-notification API and insert to aMember? Please advise.
  10. aser

    aser Moderator

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    Latest version of plugin (beta) allows this scenario.
    An account/subscription can be created after direct purchase in Google Checkout.

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