Extra Checkout Step

[menarai]

I've did some preliminary searching here and haven't found anything here about it. Forgive me if this is a repeat question.

I'm trying to customize the checkout page by adding an additional step to the checkout process. I want the shopper to first choose either google or the internal checkout process before they move onto the shipping options.

Is there any possible way to do this?

Thanks in advance

[loren_d_c]

Enabling the Google Checkout feature will automatically do this. If you enable Google Checkout, then there will be an additional screen at the beginning of the checkout process that does not display shipping or tax info and has the regular checkout button and Google Checkout button at the bottom.

See:

http://www.shopsite.com/help/9.0/en-US/sc/pro/payment.google.html

which says:

When you enable Google Checkout, customers will be presented with a pre-shopping cart screen allowing them to select either the standard ShopSite checkout process, or Google Checkout.

Note: The pre-shopping cart screen only allows a customer to select which checkout process to use. It does not include shipping or tax selection options available on the standard ShopSite shopping cart screen. Selecting Google Checkout will redirect shoppers to the Google Checkout site. Selecting the standard Checkout button will allow shoppers to checkout using the standard ShopSite checkout process, starting with the shopping cart screen.

-Loren

[menarai]

I believe due to the custom shipping template this behavior has been altered.

Thanks for your response, though; I had no idea that is what it is supposed to do. I will try to determine what is different between the new and original template to narrow down the issue.

[menarai]

Alright, I was able to move most of the items (coupon, gift certificates) to the next step of the process.

However, I want to also hide some custom text and images relating to the tax/shipping box until the person clicks the internal checkout button. Essentially, I want the equivalent of:
[-- IF SC_Tax_Shipping --]

but that doesn't exist as far as I can tell. Any other way I can do this?

[loren_d_c]

Have you tried [-- IF Google_Checkout --] ? See the description of this tag in the online documentation here:

http://www.shopsite.com/help/9.0/en-US/sc/pro/custom.template.spec-sc.html

-Loren

[menarai]

Thanks, that did it!

I essentially used this:
[-- IF Google_Checkout --]
[-- ELSE --]
[-- SC_Tax_Shipping --]
<!-- ...other tax/shipping formatting, UPS image, etc... -->
[-- END_IF --]


Edit: Logically speaking I have no idea how this works, but it just does. I would imagine Google_Checkout would return "false" unless it was picked, making the shipping info show up on the first page (before checkout system is picked). It works though.