XML API Developer's Guide: stronger, faster, easier!

Google Checkout API — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:47:00 GMT

Posted by Andy Diamondstein, Checkout Team Based on feedback from a ton of developers, we've just completed a major overhaul of the Google Checkout Developer's Guide . The new guide is designed to give you an overview of how Google Checkout works and what features it offers. The overview then links to additional documents that let you drill down into the inner workings of specific features. So whether you're selling digital goods , calculating your own shipping costs ,

Carrier-calculated shipping is here

Google Checkout API — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:14:00 GMT

Shantanu Shah - Google Checkout Team One of the most requested features of Google Checkout is to provide buyers with shipping rates for the major shipping carriers. So we're pleased to announce support for carrier-based shipping calculations for FedEx, UPS and the US Postal Service. Since we do the shipping calculations, you can also use this feature instead of having to set up a handler for Merchant-calculated shipping .

New Buy Now buttons. Now with editable content(edible too).

Google Checkout API — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:09:00 GMT

Posted by Peng Ying, Google Checkout Team Did you ever want to modify a Buy Now button, or include tax and shipping fees? Now you can! Buy Now buttons are now generated using the HTML API. What this means is that you can edit the values without creating a new Buy Now button. For example a new Buy Now button for Peanut Butter will now look like:

Interview: Renaud Visage from Eventbrite about monetizing a Facebook application with Google Checkout

Google Checkout API — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:53:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team In today's interview, Renaud Visage, CTO of Eventbrite , an online events registration application, explains how he uses the Google Checkout API in Eventbrite, and describes Events Plus , their cool new Facebook application, that is just like Facebook Events but lets you collect money online for your events. Eventbrite is written in Python, and Renaud does not yet use Evgeniy Tarassov's excellent Google Checkout Python library ,

The Google Checkout Cookbook Wiki

Google Checkout API — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:00 GMT

Posted by Jason Costa, Google Checkout Team In addition to our open-source sample code , we're also interested in collaborating with you on Checkout-specific articles, so we recently put all of our Checkout tutorials on a wiki . If you've ever had an experience that might fit in nicely with one of the current cookbook articles, please share it with the rest of the community so that other developers may leverage your experiences in their own integration.

Address Filters, more than meets the eye

Google Checkout API — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:36:00 GMT

Posted by Annand Sharma, Google Checkout Team Do you know about the address-filters tag? If you're using Merchant Calcualtions you must use address-filters to specify restricted and allowed shipping areas. For example, if you set your address-filters to indicate that you only ship to the lower 48 states, and a buyer selects an address in Hawaii, the buyer will see a message indicating the seller does not ship to the location.

Accepting 50 additional SSL root CAs

Google Checkout API — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:21:00 GMT

Posted by Jacob Moon, Google Checkout Team If you want to implement the Notification API or if you want to perform Merchant Calculations for tax and shipping, Google Checkout requires a valid SSL certificate installed on your server. Until now, we've been accepting SSL certificates issued by a limited number of SSL Certificate Authorities (CA). However, we've added 50 additional root CAs to our list, so you can easily find a suitable SSL certificate for your callback handler.

Introducing Digital Delivery

Google Checkout API — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:43:00 GMT

Posted by Graeme Roche, Associate Product Manager Starting today, Google Checkout will begin providing additional support for digital goods such as software and music. Users have always been able to buy and sell digital goods with Google Checkout but we want to be able to offer an improved user experience tailored specifically to digital goods.

Interview Series: Evgeniy Tarassov about the Google Checkout API Python Library

Google Checkout API — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:53:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team Next in our series of developer interviews is Evgeniy Tarassov, a Russian developer based in France that I met at Google Developer Day 2007 Paris in Paris. Evgenyi works for a small company called TT-Solutions . For one of his contracting jobs he had to integrate Google Checkout in a Django application, so he wrote gchecky , a Python open source library for the Google Checkout API. Evgeniy talks about the gchecky project,

Specifying international shipping & taxes with the HTML API

Google Checkout API — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:33:00 GMT

Posted by Jason Costa, Google Checkout Team Are you using the HTML API and interested in specifying shipping & taxes for locations worldwide? Our newest tutorial shows you how to translate elements from the XML API into HTML parameters so that you can specify shipping and taxes for any country where Google Checkout is available to buyers .

Interview Series: Robin Kohli from E-Junkie

Google Checkout API — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:13:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team Who would be best to initiate our series of developer interviews than Robin Kohli from E-Junkie? Robin is a star in the Google Checkout developer community: he's the top non-Google poster in the developer Forum , and his "fat free" shopping cart application is a great way to get started selling with Google Checkout in a matter of minutes. Here's an example of what E-Junkie cart looks like from a user perspective,

Google Checkout API at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Barcelona

Google Checkout API — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:03:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team Wednesday June 27th we will present the Google Checkout API at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Barcelona. I will go over the API, the Google Checkout Java SDK , and the Mendoza testing server, and Thomas Steiner will present his work on code generation for REST APIs . Join us if you're in the area.

Bookmarks for Checkout integration

Google Checkout API — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:15:00 GMT

Posted by Jacob Moon, Google Checkout Team As the developer knowledge base and developer community for Google Checkout continue to grow, we're seeing a number of helpful resources and materials scattered across various places, which can make it difficult for you to find what you need. To help keep things organized, we've started to collect bookmarks for links to resources and materials of benefit to merchants in the process of integrating with Google Checkout.

A few words about the serial-number attribute

Google Checkout API — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:54:00 GMT

Posted by Jacob Moon, Google Checkout Team Every synchronous and asynchronous message generated by Google Checkout includes an attribute called serial-number in the root element as shown here:

See you at JavaOne

Google Checkout API — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:12:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team JavaOne starts next week in San Francisco. Our team prepared a great session titled Fun and Profit with the Google Checkout API in Java Technology . I will present the excellent new Java sample code that my British colleague Simon Smith designed. Our sample code went through 2 refactorings recently so it's simpler than ever. And then my new colleague Inderjeet Singh will integrate the Java Petstore 2.

SSL certificate changed from *.google.com to checkout.google.com

Google Checkout API — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:58:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team This post is relevant to merchants that completed a level 2 integration using the order processing API. On May 10, we will update the SSL certificate for checkout.google.com from a wildcard certificate (*.google.com) to a certificate specifically issued for checkout.google.com. If you use the order processing API, it's important that your code follows the security guidelines outlined in the API documentation .

Checkout API at Google Developer Day May 31

Google Checkout API — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:02:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team Google Developer Day on May 31 is a one day event for developers held simultaneously in many Google offices around the world, where we will present all the building blocks for better web applications that Google APIs provide. A fundamental building block for many web applications is eCommerce: there will be one session about the Google Checkout API titled "Testing distributed systems with AJAX,

OSCommerce and ZenCart Google Checkout Integration Demo servers available

Google Checkout API — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:53:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team Bruno Rovagnati, maintainer of the Google Checkout PHP samples , OSCommerce and Zen Cart integrations, announced the availability of 2 demo sites : Google Checkout - OSCommerce Integration Demo Site Google Checkout - Zencart Integration Demo Site These sites provide a nice way to understand the OSCommerce and Zen cart integrations, but more generally are a great testbed to better understand Google Checkout Level 2 integration.

Google Checkout API at Web 2.0 Expo

Google Checkout API — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:41:00 GMT

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team Web 2.0 Expo 2007 starts today in San Francisco. They have a great lineup and it should be a fun conference. If you're in attending and are interested in the Google Checkout API, I'll be at the Google booth (#411 in the Expo Hall) Tuesday April 17, 2007 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm and also on Wednesday April 18, 2007 from 10:30am to 1:00pm.

Introducing International Shipping

Google Checkout API — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:34:00 GMT

Posted by Alexander Newman, Checkout Team Technical Writer Are you a Checkout merchant who's been itching to ship internationally? Well, now you can, with some recent enhancements to our shipping and tax APIs that I'm delighted to be telling you about. Wherever you are using or to define shipping restrictions or address filters, or you're using the tag to set tax rules,

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