The latest version of the Australia extension, 0.6.0 in my arbitrary number scheme, was uploaded to Magento Connect this morning. The major change for this version was the inclusion of a Paymate payment method. There were also numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
I am having some issues with the Magento translation tool - mostly that it doesn’t allow for version 1.0 translations - so I am posting this unofficial translation here. It’s fairly complete spelling-wise and is only lacking a look over for grammatical changes and places where entirely different words are used, rather than just a spelling change. An example that springs to mind is “State/Province” possibly being changed to “State/Territory”.
If anyone is interested in discussing the Australian versions of QuickBooks then check out QuickBooksForum.com.au which was recently launched by Fontis.
I got BPAY working last night and have added it, as well as the direct deposit functionality created previously, to the Australia module page on the Fontis site. Hopefully the instructions are clear enough: the module as a whole is started to get more complicated now that I had to start defining custom template files.
I have just finished adding a basic direct deposit payment module to my Australian Magento module. Development only took a day - again, because I didn’t understand some basic things to do with the Magento/Zend framework - and was mostly done by replicating functionality for the Check/Money Order module that’s already in Magento. Although direct deposit is currently lumped in with the rest of the Australian stuff I could always extract it if people in other countries would find it useful. I’m not sure how popular a payment method it is overseas.
The next order of business will be cleaning up the code for release and then moving on to the development of a BPAY payment method, which should be pretty similar to direct deposit.
To go along with my previous post on how to enable the en_AU locale in Magento, here is my unofficial, incomplete translation for said locale: en_au.zip. To install, simply unzip it to app/locale/ alongside the existing en_US locale directory.
Please note that this is incomplete - I haven’t made changes to things like “Zip Code” for example.
I have requested an official Australian locale and translation be added so hopefully I can move some of these changes across to the core soon, maybe for inclusion in the next version of Magento?