Google Checkout Note: Company does not ship to COUNTRY

Google Checkout Note

[raztud]

Hi
I implemented Google Checkout on a website and I noticed that, when I make an order and put any country (except for US) at Location, a note appears: "Note: MYCOMPANY does not ship to COUNTRY". Is there any way to solve this issue, so that the note doesn't appear anymore?
Thanks.

[jwolthuis]

If you are using Level 2 integration, the March 22nd update to the Google Checkout API introduced the postal-area and world-area tags, to allow you to specify which regions of the world you will ship to.

Details on these two tags are contained in the Google Checkout API documentation.

[raztud]

Thanks.

[tootalldave]

Another simple way is to add shipping as a product during the checkout, it will give you more control and it won't effect the Google Checkout procedure.

[jwolthuis]

How do you add shipping to the cart before you know if the customer is located in Boston or Bangladesh?

[tootalldave]

The way we had it set up, was on the view cart page before they are directed to Google Checkout we added a drop down menu with a list of the countries we ship to with a "Calculate Shipping" button.

Once they selected their country say as an example England the cart page reloaded with the ---England Shipping $45---- added to the cart.
We we're going to add a little Javascript to make sure they made a selection, but every customer seems to want to know their shipping cost before they continue to Google so we didn't use the Javascript.

We have had so many problems over the years with client and server side code slowing the process up that we try to keep it as HTML-simple as possible.