Any way to turn off shipping?

I just launched a zc site which has paypal as the only payment type. The client has shipping added in to the product type within paypal. Is there any way to override any shipping from displaying on the site? Right now, I have flat rate as the primary shipping type with the price set to "0". However, this displays as Flat Rate = "$0.00" on the site. I'd rather have no shipping info display on the site and have it display when the customer checks out to the Paypal site.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

--keith

Uh- if you pass the product amount with no shipping to paypal and then add the shipping to the price you are going to get really upset customers... not to mention, I'm not sure how the cart will react when getting a different amount back from PP than was sent.

Exactly...that's why I want to DISABLE the shipping until I get a hold of the client to get them to reconfigure their Paypal settings.

Any solutions available for this, or just comments?

--keith

It's likely possible to disable the shipping, but it would be a lot of work. When the checkout_shipping page is processed, the shipping information (address, method, cost etc) is saved in the session data. Before the next page (checkout_payment) loads, the session data is checked for shipping module selected - if that isn't set, the page redirects back to the checkout_shipping page. The same thing happens for the checkout_confirmation page.

You'd have to disable all that checking, remove the shipping from Modules > Order Totals so the cost doesn't appear, rename the constant FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING to checkout_payment, and perhaps a bunch of other stuff that I haven't though of just so the cart doesn't break completely.

Thanks for the response. Fortunately, I got in touch with the client, so I might have to go through all that.

best regards,

--keith

Couldn't you just set the product to "free shipping" in Admin and then not display the shipping cost?