Warning about Billing when trying to connect

  • Resolved simon_a6

    (@simon_a6)


    11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi

    Does this account need some kind of connection with an account at Google to work?
    We added it to a website and it worked without flaw.

    We added it to ours, and we got a warning about needing to connect it to Google billing – this is before after we removed the billing to Google.

    We also tried to add it to another client, and searching for them (who have over 100 Google Reviews), does not find them.

    Hope you can help.


    Simon

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  • Plugin Author Daniel K.

    (@richplugins)

    11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi @simon_a6,

    Recently, Google has disabled the use of Places API for free and introduced mandatory Billing. Unfortunately, since the plugin uses this Places API to show reviews, you need to enable Billing on your Google account. It’s a limitation of Google, not specifically the plugin.

    You can enable a Billing here https://console.cloud.google.com/project/_/billing/enable and learn more about it here https://developers.google.com/maps/gmp-get-started.

    Don’t worry, Google is currently giving $200 free credit a month and it should be enough to use the plugin for connecting several Google places without additional fees except this free $200 credits.

    If you have any questions please let us know.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter simon_a6

    (@simon_a6)

    11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Google’s billing is a total pain in the ……!!!

    I get this when I try to enable it:

    No available billing accounts

    There are no available billing accounts to link to this project. To change the billing account for this project, you must be an administrator of at least one active billing account not already linked to this project.

    Plugin Author Daniel K.

    (@richplugins)

    11 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi @simon_a6,

    Yes, it’s weird, you need to create a billing account and some time Google checks and verify that. Unfortunately, we can’t affect this process because it’s not depend from the plugin.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter simon_a6

    (@simon_a6)

    11 months, 1 week ago

    We got our billing working correctly.

    So the next question is: if you have Google Reviews, but no Google Project Account, how do you use this plugin? As Seting up a google project account is a hellish experience.

    Plugin Author Daniel K.

    (@richplugins)

    11 months, 1 week ago

    Hi @simon_a6,

    This plugin allows to show up to 10 Google reviews instantly on your website without API key, but to make these reviews updatable you should create your own Google API key.

    Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by Daniel K..
    Thread Starter simon_a6

    (@simon_a6)

    11 months, 1 week ago

    This has now been resolved. IT was entirely down to the billing and settings, but Google had to help us, as it was a total nightmare.

    Plugin Author Daniel K.

    (@richplugins)

    11 months, 1 week ago

    Hi @simon_a6,

    Nice to hear that. Thank you for informing us!

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