Zen Cart - check out - shipping and billing

[dubya01]

Hi, I've been using zen cart for awhile, and one problem that comes up is that people rush through the checkout, and they don't see the separate available entries for changing the shipping address and billing address.
Because of this, I often get phonecalls later on telling me I've shipped or billed to the wrong place, only to learn that they made the mistake of not seeing the "Change address" button.

Is there any way I can ask for shipping and billing information on the registration page, and then just have the user confirm their shipping and billing if they want to change it later on? So basically, steps 1 and 2 of the checkout process would still be the same, but on the registration page it not only asks for billing info, but shipping as well?

[Ajeh]

This would take quite a bit of rewritting as there is a customers table and an address_book ...

There is nothing for Payment or Shipping in the tables ...

This decision is made during the checkout ... it is even presented to them for a final confirmation so that they can say YES I really mean this ...

Maybe build in a checkbox on the checkout_confirmation similar to the other check boxes where the customer must check the checkbox to say ...

Yes, I really mean to use those addresses ... and if they are wrong then I am an idiot and not you ...

[dubya01]

Hey, I figured out a little cheap work-around for this:

On checkout_shipping_default, I changed the continue forward button. I went to the checkout_payment_default template file, and copied over the code for the change address button.

I then, at the bottom of the checkout_shipping_default, removed the continue forward button, and instead created a radio button field that asked if the billing address is the same, or different. If it was the same, it would just take the user to the default page 2(checkout_payment_default); if different, it would take the user to the change address page.

Just wanted to post this if anyone else wanted to do the same!