Thanks Michael, that's a great help.

I'm going to go with Paypal, do I need Website Payments Standard or
"Express Checkout" (    "PayPal as an Additional Payment Option" in the
US)

Does anyone else know whether Flat Rate Shipping works out the box?

Thanks Again!
Daniel


On Jul 23, 10:46 pm, Michael Dunstan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:00 AM, danimal<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael & Chris,
> >   thanks for the continued input, it's great!
>
> > I'm using encryptec.net as my client's webhost.
>
> > I managed to complete my first test order for a Shippable item on the
> > Test Payment Processor.
> >  I had to:
> >  - continue past the error message at the Shipping methods stage
> >  - enter a real credit card number (actually I've realised that I
> > could have calculated a Psuedo-real credit card number ... it only has
> > to pass the "luhn mod-10 checksum" in getpaid.core/getpaid/core/
> > fields.py)
>
> > So that's alright, I'm getting more confident about this working now.
> > But more qus:
> > 1) The site is selling DVDs - so I guess I need to make them Shippable
> > to get P&P calculation.  But FlatRateShipping doesn't appear to work
> > out the box yet. Am I right?  Is there a plan to fix this?
>
> I'm not familiar with the state of the art of shipping and getpaid.
>
> > 2) Chris you said that something (GetPaid or GoogleCheckout, can you
> > confirm which?) meant I didn't need to take customers Credit card
> > details over the web, and therefore I guess I wouldn't need to get an
> > SSL certificate.
> >   a) is that correct?
> >   b) for these purposes does it matter whether I usePaypalor
> > Googlecheckout?
>
> Correct. There are several payment processors for getpaid that
> redirect the user to a third party site to complete the credit card
> component. So that you don't have to take customers card details over
> the web using your own server. The googlecheckout and paypall
> processors (among others such as pxpay) follow that model. Within
> getpaid these are called asynchronous processors.
>
> > My webhost would be open to requests to upgrade/add known Packages,
> > but not so open to me putting my own code/fixes up outside of that, so
> > using overrides.zcml might be out :-/   They have lots of plone
> > instances running on 1 or 2 zope services as I understand it.
>
> Ah... here is the problem... the core of getpaid does not really
> support asynchronous processors. All the asynchronous processors for
> getpaid rely on using overrides to patch getpaid. There is a chance
> that this may be resolved by the recent work to support multiple
> payment processors. Seehttp://code.google.com/p/getpaid/issues/detail?id=167
>
> Oh yeah - there is a small usability feature of googlecheckout that
> relies on your site having a valid SSL cert. (Not self signed.) That's
> not critical to using googlecheckout and does not affect the security
> of the customers credit card details.
>
> --
> Michael Dunstan
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