simple notification after a purchase

Hello all,

I've had PayPal and Google Checkout working on my site for a
while,
however they both required my intervention after a purchase
was made
(I had to edit my database to show that a purchase was
made).

I'd like to have Google Checkout notify me when an order has
been
completed so this can be done automatically.

With PayPal, this was simple -- it took me about 1 hour to
integrate
their "Instant Payment Notification" (http://www.paypal.com/
cgi-bin/
webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/ipn-code-outside).  The great part is
that they
have a callback to their system using HTTPS to validate an
order, so I
don't have to have a certificate on my server.

After about 2 hours of sorting through the api docs on
google
checkout, I'm almost no further along.

Is there a easy (as compared to PayPal) way to do this?  I
don't need
anything complex -- I just need google checkout to tell me
when an
order was made and what it was for.

Thanks,
-d


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Hi darrell,

If there's an 'easy' way, then I've yet to find it.

I also implemented PayPal's IPN in about an hour, but I've
now spent
over sixteen hours on Google Checkout's equivalent and I'm
far from
finished yet.

You will need an SSL certificate on your server and you'll
definitely
want Google's sample code from:

  
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/samplecode.html

although even the latest release of that is buggy and has to
be
manually patched.

One of the main disadvantages (as far as simplicity is
concerned) of
Google's notification system is that, unlike PayPal's,
there's not
just one but several notifications and these can arrive days
apart. I
basically just bother with two at the moment: the New Order
notification and the Charged notification. Any others I just
log and
deal with manually.

Good luck!


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Hey,

I have a cubecart website setup that was going to use paypal
(IPN) but
the customer can't get a paypal account (because of a
previous issue
he had with paypal).  I asked a question about integrating
cubecart
with google checkout WITHOUT an SSL certificate and
confirmed that you
CAN!  I'll post the tlink to our thread.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout
-api-integration/browse_thread/thread/1c91fa70b6a4b38f/b9ada
571b7f46b5b?lnk=raot

On May 20, 7:49 pm, lesss <les-sm...pushposters.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi darrell,
>
> If there's an 'easy' way, then I've yet to find it.
>
> I also implemented PayPal's IPN in about an hour, but
I've now spent
> over sixteen hours on Google Checkout's equivalent and
I'm far from
> finished yet.
>
> You will need an SSL certificate on your server and
you'll definitely
> want Google's sample code from:
>
>  
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/samplecode.html
>
> although even the latest release of that is buggy and
has to be
> manually patched.
>
> One of the main disadvantages (as far as simplicity is
concerned) of
> Google's notification system is that, unlike PayPal's,
there's not
> just one but several notifications and these can arrive
days apart. I
> basically just bother with two at the moment: the New
Order
> notification and the Charged notification. Any others I
just log and
> deal with manually.
>
> Good luck!


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