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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "getpaid-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/getpaid-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
