Re: [google-appengine] Google checkout must die
Hey Jeff, Thanks for venting, this is a vicious cycle that needs to be fixed. We've addressed several issues that land people in the 'Free' = 'Activating...' = 'Free' bucket. These fixes will be rolled out with 1.6.5. Next? Look into speeding up Checkout all together. -- Chris On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: Seriously, this is ridiculous. We've been trying to enable billing on our sandbox/demo appid for the last two hours. We have a customer waiting for a demo and we can't give it. Please, PLEASE do something about this abomination. I love appengine, but the billing system is retarded. It makes the Phone Company look high tech. Every time we enable billing, it says ok and status goes to Activating Billing. After some random amount of time it goes back to Free mode with no error messages. Trying toenable it again emails a nastygram: Comments from Google Services: This inactive subscription has been canceled ...and goes back to Activating Billing. Round and round we go. Appid is voosttest. Yes we've filed a request at the billing form. Put this in context. I can walk up to a janky ATM in Guatemala, put in a card, and get money out of it immediately. I can whip out a credit card in nearly any store in the world, buy thousands of dollars of merchandise, and walk out with it. And yet the most technically sophisticated corporation in the world needs 30+ minutes to process a simple sale - when it works at all? I struggle to imagine what could make this so complicated. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Google checkout must die
Thanks for making the billing UX a priority - it's not a Big Feature Item, but it will make a lot of people very happy (or not upset). Jeff On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Hey Jeff, Thanks for venting, this is a vicious cycle that needs to be fixed. We've addressed several issues that land people in the 'Free' = 'Activating...' = 'Free' bucket. These fixes will be rolled out with 1.6.5. Next? Look into speeding up Checkout all together. -- Chris On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jeff Schnitzer j...@infohazard.org wrote: Seriously, this is ridiculous. We've been trying to enable billing on our sandbox/demo appid for the last two hours. We have a customer waiting for a demo and we can't give it. Please, PLEASE do something about this abomination. I love appengine, but the billing system is retarded. It makes the Phone Company look high tech. Every time we enable billing, it says ok and status goes to Activating Billing. After some random amount of time it goes back to Free mode with no error messages. Trying to enable it again emails a nastygram: Comments from Google Services: This inactive subscription has been canceled ...and goes back to Activating Billing. Round and round we go. Appid is voosttest. Yes we've filed a request at the billing form. Put this in context. I can walk up to a janky ATM in Guatemala, put in a card, and get money out of it immediately. I can whip out a credit card in nearly any store in the world, buy thousands of dollars of merchandise, and walk out with it. And yet the most technically sophisticated corporation in the world needs 30+ minutes to process a simple sale - when it works at all? I struggle to imagine what could make this so complicated. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Google checkout must die
Seriously, this is ridiculous. We've been trying to enable billing on our sandbox/demo appid for the last two hours. We have a customer waiting for a demo and we can't give it. Please, PLEASE do something about this abomination. I love appengine, but the billing system is retarded. It makes the Phone Company look high tech. Every time we enable billing, it says ok and status goes to Activating Billing. After some random amount of time it goes back to Free mode with no error messages. Trying toenable it again emails a nastygram: Comments from Google Services: This inactive subscription has been canceled ...and goes back to Activating Billing. Round and round we go. Appid is voosttest. Yes we've filed a request at the billing form. Put this in context. I can walk up to a janky ATM in Guatemala, put in a card, and get money out of it immediately. I can whip out a credit card in nearly any store in the world, buy thousands of dollars of merchandise, and walk out with it. And yet the most technically sophisticated corporation in the world needs 30+ minutes to process a simple sale - when it works at all? I struggle to imagine what could make this so complicated. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
Re: [google-appengine] Google checkout must die
You are blessed!!! I agree with every word!!! -- Stefano Ciccarelli Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Friday 6 April 2012 at 21:10, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: Seriously, this is ridiculous. We've been trying to enable billing on our sandbox/demo appid for the last two hours. We have a customer waiting for a demo and we can't give it. Please, PLEASE do something about this abomination. I love appengine, but the billing system is retarded. It makes the Phone Company look high tech. Every time we enable billing, it says ok and status goes to Activating Billing. After some random amount of time it goes back to Free mode with no error messages. Trying to enable it again emails a nastygram: Comments from Google Services: This inactive subscription has been canceled ...and goes back to Activating Billing. Round and round we go. Appid is voosttest. Yes we've filed a request at the billing form. Put this in context. I can walk up to a janky ATM in Guatemala, put in a card, and get money out of it immediately. I can whip out a credit card in nearly any store in the world, buy thousands of dollars of merchandise, and walk out with it. And yet the most technically sophisticated corporation in the world needs 30+ minutes to process a simple sale - when it works at all? I struggle to imagine what could make this so complicated. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Google Checkout + Credit Card Fees
Hey everyone. Is there a possibility to change the billing behavior in Google App Engine. With our account App Engine currently bills every week from our credit card. Because our business is in Germany this is an international payment wich costs at least 1.50 € per billing. This makes a total of 6€ every month (72€ a year) for ... nothing. I havent found a way to pre-charge the Google Checkout Account and I can't think of any other way to solve that problem from here. As I see it this fee makes Google App Engine more expensive and neither Google nor us have got any advantage from that payment. It is just the banks making more money (and I thin they have got enought :) ) Regards, Nikolai -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Google Checkout + App engine stinks
Every single time I try to up my quota, and pay a bit more for appengine, google checkout messes up and I have to wait 30 minutes to even attempt again. Granted most of my problems lie in the fact that I'm using a google apps account. My most recent attempt was thwarted when google checkout redirected me to combine a personal and google apps account, locking up appengine again and apparently deleting my google checkout account. So now I have an application over quota linked to a non-existent google checkout account and I can't do anything for 30 minutes. Seriously, there has to be a better way to deal with billing. I don't think I have ever seen an online application that had a 30 minute waiting period every time you made any attempt to change billing (especially the numerous failed attempts I'm riddled with). I have ended up stuck in this ridiculous waiting period at least ten times and I don't think it's user error, rather flawed design on the app engine teams part. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Google Checkout
Guys what about this stuff - Google Checkout? I hope soon I will have paid service.. And users of mine suppose to pay for staff.. If I create registration or authentication based on Google Account will this user have possibility to pay use Google Checkout API or stuff like this? Or PayPal ? I do not know.. :( Please advice about this problem. How can I organize payments from users to me ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Google Checkout with GAE?
Recently, has anyone had success integrating GAE with Google Checkout and Subscriptions using a Python wrapper? I looked at gchecky but see no example of integrating that with GAE or the beta subscription option. I'm searching for an example implementation before I dive in and figure it all out for myself and am hoping someone here has had some experience with this. Thanks in advance, Barry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
[google-appengine] Google Checkout Rate Your Experience emails
Hi, Is there any way to get Google Checkout to stop sending me Rate your shopping experience emails? I've answered them, but they keep coming. I have a handful of apps and each of them generates a checkout charge once a day, which means I get a handful of rate your shopping experience emails every day. Ben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Google Checkout for international merchants
Hi guys, I know this is not the right place to ask, but I'm sure some developers using AppEngine are interested with this too. I wanted to register a Checkout account, but my country is not listed. Given that AppEngine+Checkout pretty much a match made in heaven for ecommerce platform, how do international merchants subscribe to Google Checkout? To put it another way, what cloud/outsourced ecommerce solution (beside PayPal) do you guys (planning to) use with AppEngine? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] google checkout button
I want to use Google checkout to sell a license key. The html code of the google checkout button looks like the code below, form action= ... input name=item_name_1 value=Software license key type=hidden / ... input name=shopping-cart.items.item-1.digital-content.key value=0588-8462-1638-9200 type=hidden / ... /form The problem is that the user can see the license key without buying it by checking the web page source from his browser. Using Google App engine, how can I send the Google Checkout button information without showing it in html code. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Google Checkout
Hi, There have been a few messages about GAE and Checkout, but has anyone sucessfuly used Checkout with GAE? Could anyone recommend another 'easy' way to allow users to pay through a GAE powerd app? Many thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
