PayPal WPP and PayPal shipping

**Techiant** · 18 Jul 2009, 01:08 PM

Hi folks,

We use PayPal shipping (PPS) with most of our orders.

For every order that is shipped through PPS a notification email is sent by PayPal to the customer. This feature, in our opinion, is confusing for the customers who did not pay through PayPal express checkout.

I spoke to PayPal merchant support and they tell me there is no way to turn it off. I mentioned one solution which was to have shopping cart pass our own email address during transaction and the PayPal rep said "that would be one way to do it".

Now, the question is which part of the WPP module is the one that is responsible for passing the email string? My thought is to send email string like: [email protected] so that the address is always unique as well as easy to recreate without storing. I looked at the PayPal php files and see that it also uses email to retrieve order info from PayPal at different times (such as when issuing refund), so this part of the code would need to be changed as well.

Does someone have good knowledge of this module who can help determine the parts of the code that needs to be modified for the made-up email address?

Thanks

**DrByte** · 18 Jul 2009, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Techiant

I spoke to PayPal merchant support and they tell me there is no way to turn it off. I mentioned one solution which was to have shopping cart pass our own email address during transaction and the PayPal rep said "that would be one way to do it".

Doesn't sound like a definitive answer, but there's a noted lack of documentation on PPS so any workaround is all guesswork.

Originally Posted by Techiant

... which part of the WPP module is the one that is responsible for passing the email string? My thought is to send email string like: [email protected] so that the address is always unique as well as easy to recreate without storing.

/includes/modules/payment/paypaldp.php, line 505 says:

Code:

      'EMAIL'       => $order->customer['email_address'],

Changing that to the following will make it send the email address from your admin settings for the admin copy of order-confirmation emails:

Code:

      'EMAIL'       => SEND_EXTRA_ORDER_EMAILS_TO,

Originally Posted by Techiant

I looked at the PayPal php files and see that it also uses email to retrieve order info from PayPal at different times (such as when issuing refund), so this part of the code would need to be changed as well.

I'm not sure what gave you that idea.