Google Checkout Configuration Questions

[VinceS]

I initially set up Google Checkout according to instructions in SS Help.

Question #1)
For Sales Tax, I configured "Use ZIP to Determine Tax" and checked New Jersey at 7% with 07***, 08*** as valid patterns. I activated Google Checkout, added a product to the Shopping Cart and chose Google Checkout. Sales tax appears in the totals even though no zip code had been entered yet. Is this normal/correct?

Question #2)
Can I still use the FedEx/USPS Real Time Shipping module for non-Google Checkout orders. The set-up instructions as I read them say I can't. Do I need to disable this for Google Checkout? How & where does Google Checkout calculate shipping?

[loren_d_c]

1) This may be new, but yes it appears to be normal. If you charge tax at all, it looks like Google is putting an 'Estimated Tax' field on their initial screen using your tax rate (and who knows which one they would choose if you had multiple tax rates enabled, maybe they would choose the first one or maybe an average of the rates). This is not specific to ShopSite. I tried this on buy.com, and when I go to the Google Checkout cart it gave an 'Estimated Tax', but after I logged into my Google Checkout account, it changed the tax amount to 0.00 to reflect the actually tax that would be charged for my saved Google Checkout account address.

2) Rates coming from a Custom Shipping Add-on module will not be available in Google Checkout. You don't have to disable it your add-on modules (unless your ShopSite is older than v8.3), they can still be used for the non-Google Checkout orders. Note that if the Custom Shipping Add-on is the only shipping method that your ShopSite is configured for, then your Google Checkout orders will not have any shipping charged. You will either have to adjust the order amount in Google Checkout after the fact to add the shipping charges, or configure one of the other shipping options in ShopSite that can be passed through to Google Checkout.

-Loren

[ShopSite David]

Rates coming from a Custom Shipping Add-on module can now be supported for Google Checkout in ShopSite v10.