Need help understanding Paypal IPN Address Override message

[dinki]

A while back I upgraded to v139h. As per the instructions, I uninstalled/reinstalled Paypal IPN. Since doing so, I am constantly seeing this message for all of my orders:

**** ADDRESS OVERRIDE ALERT!!! **** CHECK PAYPAL ORDER DETAILS FOR ACTUAL ADDRESS SELECTED BY CUSTOMER!!

I've checked and both the ZC customer shipping address and PP shipping address are the same.

I took a look at the PP IPN settings and think the problem is coming from:

Address Override
If set to 1, the customer shipping address selected in Zen Cart will override the customer PayPal-stored address book. The customer will see their address from Zen Cart, but will NOT be able to edit it at PayPal.
(An invalid address will be treated by PayPal as not-supplied, or override=0)
0=No Override
1=ZC address overrides PayPal address choices

I have mine set for '1' . I would like to get rid of this message but I want to make sure that if a customer who wants to send their order to a different address can do so. Will changing to '0' cause any problems with this?

One last thing. I've also noticed something a bit out of place on the detailed order screen:

MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_ENTRY_COMMENTS {Record generated by IPN} [ProtectionEligibilityartially Eligible - INR Only]

I'm not sure if the 'MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_ENTRY_COMMENTS' is supposed to look like that or if this is just the variable name showing up instead of the data it contains? I see this for all orders.

Thanks for the help

[DrByte]

When you've set that value to 1, you're always going to see the warning message.

And yes, the MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_ENTRY_COMMENTS is showing because your language file doesn't properly contain a definition for that constant. And that tells me that you didn't properly upgrade the language files last time you upgraded ... or the language files are out of date for some other reason.

[dinki]

Thanks for the help.

So I should be able to set it to '0' without any problems with customer's changing their ship to address?

I know what happened with the language file; I used my old language file instead of comparing the old with the new and changing the new. I guess that variable isn't defined in my old language file or something changed. Lazy short cut.

[DrByte]

Set it to 0 and it will not allow customers' address to override the PayPal address.

[dinki]

Set it to 0 and it will not allow customers' address to override the PayPal address.

That's the part I don't understand. On 138h I had it set to 0 and I would still see a different ship to address. I would see a red circle icon on my orders page when the customer would choose a different address but it would still let them enter it. I noticed the above setting when I was reinstalling the module so I thought I had it misconfigured and changed it. Now EVERY address that gets entered shows a comment that it doesn't match the paypal address even if it does.

This is more a nuisance than anything but I would like to figure out why it is doing this.

[DrByte]

EVERY address that gets entered shows a comment that it doesn't match the paypal address even if it does.

No, it doesn't say that. It tells you to verify whether the address is correct or not, because there's no way for the IPN module to properly verify the address details reliably.

You'd be better off using Express Checkout anyway, and would benefit from the customer's address being shared to the store if they changed it on the PayPal end.

[dinki]

Fair enough. Please bear with me for just one last question. What happens if the customer enters a different shipping address when the above is set to 0? Will it give some sort of error to the customer after they log in and try to pay with paypal or will it just give me a message in the comments and still let the payment and order go through?

[DrByte]

To be perfectly honest, I don't remember. I never use that module anymore.