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After you have successfully installed the LiteCommerce Google Checkout add-on module, click on the Google Checkout module name in the list of installed modules to enter the module configuration page.
The following configuration settings are available:
Account options
Merchant ID: this is a unique, numeric code assigned to your business by Google. To find your Merchant ID, sign in to Google Checkout and click the 'Settings' tab. Your Merchant ID will appear under 'Primary contact information.'
Merchant key: this is a unique, alphanumeric code that helps secure your communications with Google. Both you and Google will use this key to authenticate and verify the integrity of any messages you exchange.
To find your Merchant Key, sign in to Google Checkout and click the 'Settings' tab, then click 'Integration'. Your Merchant Key will appear under 'Account information.'
Test/Live mode: The Sandbox works just like the production version of Google Checkout, except that test credit card numbers are allowed and no funds are ever taken from or paid to anyone.
Note: The Merchant ID and Merchant key that need to be entered for Test and Live modes are different!
Use non-secure HTTP protocol: select this checkbox to use HTTP instead of HTTPS for communication between LiteCommerce and Google.
Seller account currency: only USD or GBP are available at present.
Order specific options
The following group of options allows you to specify which order statuses you wish to assign to your Google Checkout orders.
Order prefix: add a prefix to all your orders if you want them to be easily distinguished. For example, if you have multiple stores and use one Google Checkout account. Corresponding order prefixes will help to distinguished between the orders coming from different stores.
When you receive orders, Google authorizes the buyer's credit card for the amount of the purchase. During this authorization period, you won't be able to charge the buyer for the order. (The authorization typically takes only a few minutes, but may take up to 24 hours in certain rare cases.) After the authorization is completed, the order acquires a 'CHARGEABLE' order status, which means you can now charge this order manually.
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If you have LiteCommerce AOM add-on module, it is possible to create order statuses which directly correspond with Google Checkout order statuses. For example to be able to distinguish orders that use Google Checkout as a payment method, you can create 'Google_chargeable', 'Google_charged' and 'Google_failed' statuses.
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'CHARGEABLE' order status: select an existing LiteCommerce order status from the corresponding drop-down box.
'CHARGED' order status: select an existing LiteCommerce order status that will be assigned to the order which has been charged.
Declined/Canceled/Failed order status: select an existing LiteCommerce order status that will be assigned to the order which has been declined, canceled or failed.
Conditions on which orders will be charged
| • | Charge order if the result of AVS check-up is: Full AVS match (address and postal code) / Partial AVS match (postal code only) / Partial AVS match (address only) / No AVS match / AVS not supported by issuer. Select the AVS status (or statuses) on which the system should charge the order. To select multiple statuses, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking on the appropriate status names with your mouse. |
| • | Charge order if the result of CVN check-up is: CVN match / No CVN match / CVN not available / CVN error. Select the CVN status (or statuses) on which the system should charge the order. To select multiple statuses, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking on the appropriate status names with your mouse. |
| • | Charge order only if it is eligible for Google Checkout's payment guarantee policy: Select this check box if you wish the system to charge only the orders that are eligible for Google Checkout's payment guarantee policy. |
Other options
| • | Cancel order if merchant calculations fail: Select this check box if you wish Google Checkout to cancel orders for which it does not receive the correct results of merchant calculations in response to merchant-calculation-callback. Google may fail to receive the said results if, for example, the XML being sent to Google Checkout contains errors or if the response time of your server to Google's merchant-calculation-callback exceeds 3 seconds because of high server load or the server being unstable. If you leave the check box 'Cancel order if merchant calculations fail' unselected, Google Checkout will use the default values it has gotten from X-Cart - the 'Default shipping cost' (may be specified further in the section 'Other options'), the backup tax rate that has been sent to Google Checkout with the shopping cart, etc. |
| • | Send order notification emails from: Specify whether you wish order placement notifications from LC-store to be sent to customers placing orders through Google Checkout. |
| Note: | Google Checkout program policy discourages use of order confirmation emails by merchants in order to reduce the number of redundant emails sent to customers. Because Google itself sends the necessary confirmations, LiteCommerce order placement notifications to customers are disabled by default and are not sent unless you re-enable them. We strongly recommend you keep the check box for the option 'Disable notifications to customers about placed orders' selected. |
| • | Default shipping cost (will be used if Google Checkout does not receive a correct XML response from your store): Specify a shipping cost that you wish to be sent to Google Checkout if, for some reason, your store cannot provide Google Checkout with a shipping cost value calculated based on the customer's shipping address (For example, if the XML being sent to Google Checkout contains errors or if the response time of your server to Google's merchant-calculation-callback exceeds 3 seconds because of high server load or the server being unstable). |
| • | Display a note about products not available through Google Checkout in the cart: select this check box to notify your customers that some of the products they have added to cart are not available through Google Checkout. |
| • | Remove discounts and gift certificates from order: select this check box to remove all discounts, gift certificates and bonus points from the final order in Google Checkout.
All of the above are added to the order as products with negative prices. That is why you might want to remove them first to exclude the possibility of a negative subtotal. The customers will have to enter the codes for discount coupons and/or gift certificates once again on the Google Checkout page. (Bonus points cannot be used to pay for orders on the Google Checkout side, only if entered directly in LiteCommerce). If you leave the check box empty, negative subtotal can be calculated. |
After you complete all the required fields click 'Update' to save the information.
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