Override Paypal Shipping Address

[point4design]

I'm having trouble figuring out how paypal shipping addresses work. Imagine I have a customer who wants to ship to a different address, so they enter the address as a shipping address during checkout through zen cart. But when they get to paypal, the shipping address is listed as whatever address is in their paypal account. Is there a way to override the paypal shipping address and display the address they entered in the shopping cart?

[ddecort]

I have this exact problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[point4design]

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one having trouble with this . I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been addressed before. I can't find an answer to this problem anywhere. Can anyone help?

[point4design]

Is this not possible??

[jdhone]

The only way to change the PayPal address is in PayPal itself. If the customer is signing up for a new account this wont be a problem, but for existing PayPal users, I can see how this might be a problem. The only suggestion I can make is that you verify with the customer, prior to shipping, as to which address is correct.

[point4design]

Here is what paypal said:

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The line of code you will need to make sure you are passing is:

<input type="hidden" name="address_override" value="1">

You need to remove the

<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">

. When adding a line of code you should be adding it among other lines of code that our similar. For example:

<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1.00">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="my item">
<input type="hidden" name="address_override" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="1223">

thanks for your patience and cooperation.

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Anyone know where I can add the address_override line in the paypal code?

[point4design]

If anyone has any information on this I would really appreciate the help. I've been beating my head against the wall trying to figure this one out. Isn't this a problem for anyone else?

[spectreman]

this is a problem for me too - i've changed code in:

/includes/modules/payment/paypal.php

because if you look in there, you will find an ADDRESS_OVERRIDE line of code which seems like the solution, but i was unable to configure it correctly to make it work. the code is below:

Line #387 : $db->Execute("insert into " . TABLE_CONFIGURATION . " (configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, set_function, date_added) values ('Address override', 'MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_ADDRESS_OVERRIDE', '', 'If set to 1 the address passed in via Zen Cart will override the customer PayPal-stored address. The customer will be shown their address from Zen Cart, but will not be able to edit it. If the address is not valid (i.e. missing required fields, including country) or not included, then no address will be shown.<br />Empty=No Override<br />1=Passed-in Address overrides customers PayPal-stored address', '6', '18', 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'\',\'1\'), ', now())");


if anyone can figure it out, please post back here....

[laisunshine]

Did anyone figure this out? I had a customer try several times to check out and this is the answer that paypal gave me. I don't know where to remove it from. This is what they said:

"I attempted to view your code and your shopping cart has hidden your code behind a script. You will need to have your cart provider look for and remove the following line of code in your checkout <input type="hidden" name="address_override" value="1">. This variable is causing the error that you are seeing in your shopping cart."

[egg2fry]

Who can save me too?


I've been really stuck in the same trouble of getting delivery informaton from Paypal. Although I need shipping address, consignee name and phone number, normally there have been order's information duplicated. It sucks~


I considered saving shipping information into Zen-cart databse before transfering to Paypal website and ignore Paypal's returning delivery informaton.

But I am not skilled to do it and not sure what kinds of problems will happen either!

Please help me.