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jamesss

24th February 2009, 14:02

Hi to all and thank you for letting me be apart of the forums!!!:)

Can anybody tell me how to write a shipping option into my newly built site using google cart?
Up to now i have built,published,added a shopping cart and google checkout to my site but im struggling in adding a two option shipping feature to my cart i.e £5 for postage on products adding to a total of £45 and free if above the latter amount.

Just need to know where to get the HTML code and if it needs to be written in with the 'add to cart' buttons or if i just need to write it after the <head> and before the <body>. :|

Any help on this matter would be much appreciated,;)

James

p.s my site is here designerswitching.co.uk let me know what yall think ;)

SimonMiller

24th February 2009, 14:21

Hi James, it seems like you're using the pre-defined buttons, and dropping these into your page (ie, the basic HTML integration). The Google Checkout API's page (http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/) seems to suggest that to define varying shipping costs you'd need to use the full HTML API.

As a bit of general feedback, it might also be worth making the "View Basket" option a lot more obvious, as I had to look quite hard for it before I found it! Maybe also add a "Checkout" button too, as the potential customer is likely going to look for this when they want to finish up and pay.

Hope this gives you a place to start!

jamesss

24th February 2009, 15:36

Thanks Simon,
forgot to mention ive only added a button and cart to the remote dimmers section at the moment just until i get up to speed with the buttons /html .Will try what you have said,it seems to make sense what your saying but i just find Google guidlines so vague!

Will let you know how i get on.
cheers

James