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Magento tip : add Google Checkout button to side bar shopping cart

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:53:20 +0000

For some reason it is easy to add the Paypal Express one click checkout option to the side bar cart in Magento. However, there is no instant way to do the same for Google Checkout.

So you will need to edit this by hand.

you can add the following code anywhere.. For this particular client we used:

/ app / design / frontend / base / default / template / checkout / cart / sidebar.phtml

add

getLayout()->createBlock('googlecheckout/link')->setTemplate('googlecheckout/link.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

for example:

   
        getChildHtml('extra_actions') ?>
        
    

getLayout()->createBlock('googlecheckout/link')->setTemplate('googlecheckout/link.phtml')->toHtml(); ?>

Paypal payments received but not showing in Magento backend.

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:43:01 +0000

Paypal is one of the quickest and easiest (if not the cheapest) way of persuading your Magento site to accept credit, debit and paypal payments. Support for Paypal within Mangento is great.. it even has its own panel. However, some of the bugs that arise are bizzar and can delay starting your shop for weeks.

By spooky coincidence we stumbled across the same problem in two places. One was a client who was just setting up shop. Sage Pay was fine but Paypal payments were not reaching Magneto. The order showed up in the back end but no email notifications were being sent out and the order was shown as Pending rather than Processing.

The other problem was raised on the Unofficial Magento forums. Again the same problem.. Paypal setup fine but the information was not reaching magneto.

A quick look in var/log and checking system.log and exception.log revieled that Paypal was attempting to connect to Magento but was rejected… the reason..

The Paypal address is CASE SENSATIVE.

Believe it or not, if either your address as registered with paypal or your Magento Paypal account are not case-identicle Paypal will not work…. nuts!

Correct Paypal errors in Magento.. double grand total, customer paid double, complete rather than processing.

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:20:43 +0000

For reasons known only to Varien the last 2 versions of Magento have contained serious Paypal bugs which can either create inaccurate accounting errors (seen only by the admin not the customer) or defaults to Order Complete instead of Processing Order.

The following will fix these errors

1) Upgrade to 1.3.2.4

2) Make the following changes to Standard.php

located at “app/code/core/Mage/Paypal/Model/Standard.php”
note that this is a core file.. future upgrades will over write this file.. hopefully this will be fixed in a future upgrade.

147     public function canCapture()

148     {

149         return true;

150     }

….. ………

417     $invoice->register()->pay();

418              Mage::getModel('core/resource_transaction')

419            ->addObject($invoice)

420         ->addObject($invoice->getOrder())

421          ->save();

422        $order->setState(

423        Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_PROCESSING, $newOrderStatus,

424           Mage::helper('paypal')->__('Invoice #%s created', $invoice->getIncrementId()),

425           $notified = true

Obviously if you are a Dx3webs customer these changes will already have been applied.