Comments on: Google store does not use google checkout instead uses Worldpay

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:10:56 +0000

Actually magento is one of the best opensource platforms I’ve used. Much much better than osComm or Zencart. And the payment solutions are integrated instead of being modules. Magentocommerce.com

By: b100dian

b100dian — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:16:10 +0000

mmmm… oscommerce.. php.. google.. blink blink

By: smile-please

smile-please — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:09:26 +0000

I had to hack some extra functionality into oscommerce once, along with some basic skinning.

It has some of the worst code I’ve ever seen; it’s design is utterly abysmal, and ’skinning’ it involves hacking core business logic code because there is no separation of concerns.

Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be able good open source shopping cart solutions, so we’re stuck with it.

By: rmtew

rmtew — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:07:48 +0000

My one experience with google checkout has not been a good one. The seller was unresponsive, and the google’s web site was confusing to work out the process in dealing with this.

I tried to contact the seller twice, with no response, and after several weeks of waiting I got onto google about it. Then they try and contact the seller, even though all my previous communication went through their system, which resulted in another week after which they contacted me and asked if I had heard from the seller.

Now they’re finally refunding, but they say it will take up to ten days for me to get the money back if they are able to refund.

I wouldn’t use google checkout either if I was them. I’ve had a much better experience with Paypal.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:46:28 +0000

Just for the record, visiting te Google Store from within the US, I end up at a google checkout page.

By: Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:24:43 +0000

I also get the URL as googlestore.com/ (no hyphen.) With the hyphen, I see prices in GBP by default (though I can switch to USD or EUR). I don’t see the usual google checkout stuff in the purchase process on the hyphenated site, though. I’m guessing it is a country-by-country (or maybe just US vs everywhere else) thing. They’re definitely different sites (the non-hyphenated one is asp, not php). I’m guessing they’re run by separate companies entirely. The US one is run by Gateway CDI, a company that does this sort of corporate merchandise store for lots of other companies as well.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:08:19 +0000

The simple truth is the google checkout osc module written by Google by Ropu never worked correctly it was a massive joke. It is no wonder they went with World Pay

By: Fore Caster

Fore Caster — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:33:02 +0000

So Google can get the Google checkout badge on their websites without using it??