I opened a merchant account with google checkout and would like to customize the html/css. I have googled and searched around, but could not find anything. It seems that its not possible at all. The merchant account doesn't show any options either. But, I found the following page, which uses a custom header:
https://checkout.google.com/view/buy?o=shoppingcart&shoppingcart=966330776082367
It seems that this page is using a custom skin, which is hosted on the google servers, however as said there is no option at all in my merchant account. If anybody knows how this can be done, please share.
Update 1: After searching around for hours, I found the support link, which does allow you to upload an image for the merchant account. However there is no sign of a custom css. Here is the link: http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/request.py?ctx=cm
Update 2: The logo I added in update 1, does not appear yet in my checkout page. I guess it needs to be approved by google first.
Customizing the CSS of the order pages is a feature no longer offered by Google.
Regarding the custom logo see this threads for more info:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/checkout-merchants/thread?tid=607a1b33062a25a8&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/checkout-merchants/thread?tid=3b2ae69383678515&hl=en
Note that you can customize the behavior and appearance of the shopping cart through CSS and JavaScript:
http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_Shopping_Cart_Understanding_Shopping_Cart_Widget.html
http://sites.google.com/site/checkoutshoppingcart/customising-cart-s-ui
http://sites.google.com/site/checkoutshoppingcart/javascript-api
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I have created an ecommerce store, and I'm using PayPal "Add to Cart" Buttons with what they call 'hosted' buttons (PayPal stores the buttons on their servers) for each of my products.
For reference on how they work (and why I use them):
You create a button(product) inside your PayPal Dashboard and you define the quantity available (most of them are 1 in my case)
You copy the HTML code into your website (or just copy the link)
The user buys the product (and the quantity falls -1)
The reason I use this setup is because my website is static, and PayPal provides the Quanity (SKU) Management - so no one can buy a product that no longer exists - even if he can access the button/link.
My Problem
The PayPal GUI dashboard for creating buttons is very time-consuming, I would like to have the ability to edit/create etc. buttons in bulk.
I had search and search for a solution online but have found nothing.
Possible Solution
The only thing I've recently gave some thought was the PayPal Button Manager API and the Ruby SDK in particular, but even if I've studied programming and I'm really eager to keep learning more, I don't know yet what to do in order to make the API calls.
I can't understand from their documentation and I have found zero tutorials online for such a thing.
Failed Solution
As I was familiar with WordPress I tried installing a plugin called PayPal Button Manager but it hasn't the ability to edit in bulk, which is what I'm trying to do.
All in all, I want to:
Create, Edit, Delete, Update in bulk PayPal Hosted Add to Cart Buttons
If using the Ruby API, I would much prefer doing so in a local environment
I'm using Jekyll for my static site, so I'm having Ruby installed and have read multiple times that it's an 'easy' to learn language. But if you can think of something else, I'm open.
If you have Wordpress, then you have a local database, and might end up much happier with a solution that stores quantities locally in that database, such as the WooCommerce plugin, with the following additional plugin for payment: https://woocommerce.com/woocommerce-and-paypal/
Your proposed solution of using PayPal Standard Buttons with the legacy PayPal Button Manager API .. is extremely unconventional in contrast, and would be considered a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad" hack by most.
I am trying to integrate a Google Checkout "Buy Now" button, and am hoping that there is some HTML code available similar to adding a Buy Now button in PayPal. I have not had much luck as yet, and was wondering if someone would be able to point me in the correct direction?
I also need to be able to add a callback address into the script (not set through the google checkout admin panel).
Thank you in advance for your help!
It's all documented in the Google Checkout API. Additionally, there is a guide that shows the different ways you can implement Google Checkout depending on your available resources.
It's been few days I'm looking for a solution and I can't figure out why it's still not working.
Here is my goal:
I have a website with a sideshow. The images are dynamically changed (with previous and next buttons). I just want to share an image on social networks (facebook, google+ and twitter) and actually see the image in my wall with a little description and the link to a page.
Precision:
The image is a thumbnail (so, not the same url) of the main image and the link I want to publish is neither the page I'm on (which is static due to Ajax) nor the image one.
My tries:
I have almost got it on facebook but the image loading failed and it was with a share button (which seems to be deprecated in favor of like) and for google+, the +1 button become red after I click it... I tried XFBML and OpenGraph, but the problem is with Ajax (url is the one of the page or is not changed even with createElement("
Questions:
1. Is there any packaged solution (like addthis, but working the way I want)?
2. Or do you have one (or a clue) for me please?
3. Am I the only one to think that offical facebook and google+ ajax documentation are lame?
Thanks a lot.
Hugo
PS: if I could have a fly-out to edit a comment with the content I'm about to share, it would be fantastic!
One way to accomplish this is with cloaking.
Setup a page which provides the image, title, and description to the social application (aka. facebook, google+). You can then use Javascript to redirect the user to the page you actually want the user to see. For users without Javascript the page should display a link to the target page with a "Click here if you are not automatically redirected". The image should exist on the page but you can place it in a div with style="display: none;" so the user doesn't actually see it.
A more advanced technique would be to use the IP address and browser name (user agent) to determine if the visitor is a user or a social network robot and using a 502 temporary redirect to the page you want the user to see if the visitor is not a social robot. The social robots would be shown a page which has the image, title and description.
The social sharing buttons that you're using all have one thing in common: they all work best when there's a URL representation for the object that you're sharing. Some of them, namely Facebook's like button and Google's +1 button, use the contents of that page to create the snippet that's shared.
This isn't a new problem, though. This is the same problem faced with search indexing of AJAX applications. Sadly there's no easy solution. Here are a couple of challenging ones:
Programmatic Solution
You can improve your back end so that it's capable of rendering pages for each shareable step in the state of your slide show: one page per image. As you step through the slide show you can destroy and re-create the social sharing plugins each time targeting them to this machine accessible version of that image.
Snapshot Solution
You can use a crawler tool that is capable of executing JavaScript to make snapshots of the different states of your application. You can then target the social sharing buttons to the snapshot of the current state.
This might require less back end work but may be challenging to keep up to date.
Since facebook is deprecating fbml, could someone point me in the direction of what would be the replacement for the multi-friend-selector? We use this to allow facebook users to send invitations to their friends to let them know about our site.
You might want to have a look at Facebook's Send Dialog and Request Dialog.
There also exist two JQuery Plugins you might be interested in. The first is an autocomplete plugin which includes a Facebook theme and the second is a full friend selector plugin. I already used both on production:
http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/demo.html (see the facebook theme)
http://labs.thesedays.com/blog/2011/06/20/the-missing-facebook-interface-component-for-friend-selection/
I want to customize my google checkout pages in my website like this site. I want to place my website logo in google checkout cart section. Example. How is this accomplished?
Customizing the CSS of the order pages is a feature no longer offered by Google.
For more information see this answer to a related question.
You can either customize only the UI, or get deeper into things and customize the cart itself via the API.