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Using CivicCRM 1.8 / Joomla.

Set up everything in Google Checkout, except the report back API which Google lists as optional, and we don't need since we are small enough to handle accounting, etc., manually.

Set up the payment page in CiviCRM and configured CiviContribute with our Merchant ID, Key, and Google generated button URL.

Page displays fine, but Google Checkout button takes the user to google.com's front page (search), not to Google checkout.

The "Site URL" field in com_civicrm/civicrm/admin/paymentProcessor is still set to https://checkout.google.com/.

What am I missing?  The docs for configuring Google Checkout utterly confuse me.

Button URL (cut & pasted into CiviCRM from Google Checkout generator)

https://checkout.google.com/buttons/checkout.gif?merchant_id=[number]&w=180&h=46&style=white&variant=text&loc=en_US

Thanks for looking into it for me.

I've checked and triple checked all the settings in the CiviCRM setup, and even re-entered them from scratch.  I think it must be a peculiarity of the shared hosting environment.  This installation is for a small local campaign, so we can move processing to a third-party provider, and manually update the contributions as "offline" donations.

If it recurs on the next installation, then I'll try to track it down.

J:

Would be great if you could track this down. Alternatively can u reproduce this on demo with your sandbox google credentials and we'll try to debug/fix it

thanx

lobo

1. can u please enter your sandbox credentials. i deleted your live credentials.

2. for live, you need to also use an https certificate from a list of "certified" providers. check:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-developers-forum/web/google-checkout-and-ssl-certificates

on demo, we use a self generated certificate and hence a live transaction will probably not work

lobo

Before we try switching to Paypal instead, I should ask--

Does it need SSL as well? We'd like to not have to use SSL since this is a small local campaign, and spending a bunch of money on a SSL certificate when no credit card info is being transferred is something they aren't going to do.

The part about having to have a SSL certificate from a certain place is definitely something that needs to be added to the set up instructions for Google Checkout.

Also, the instructions need to be updated to show that the link to the API has to be a https:// address as well.

That's probably why many of us are running into this problem - we didn't know we needed a SSL certificate since we're not passing any credit card information through.

Can you please help out and update the documentation like you recommend above.

thanx

lobo

Would be great if you could update it as much as possible including some/all 1.8 changes. Such contributions help us significanly, is much appreciated AND keeps the documentation a bit more relevant

Thanx for spending time and energy on this

lobo