I have set up a website with integration with paypal's Payment Standard. This includes address_override=1 to send to paypal a fixed the delivery address.
A "helpful" feature of paypal is that it pre-populates the uploaded address into the billing address fields for an unregistered user.
If the user then fills in their credit card details their card will obviously be declined as the billing address must match their card. All works fine if the user realises the error and replaces my uploaded address with their real billing address, but the client im working for is nervous that users will not realise to do this... I have to agree somewhat.
Does anyone know of a solution to this? some variable I'm missing in the standard variables docu's from Paypal which says:
"thiis is an address override, but only uise it for delivery adress, never billing address"
a year too late for a reply but I had the same problem.
I cannot separate the billing and shipping address. In my case, users can buy items as gift so the billing and shipping address will be different...and just today, I recently found out PayPal has no way to separate both. Oh boy.
In the script that commnunicates with PayPal, there will be an "address_override" => "1". Simply, change this to "address_override" => "0".
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I'm testing a PayPal integration on the sandbox using cmd=_express-checkout
(https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&useraction=commit&=token=..)
The store I'm working on calcs shipping costs from delivery address before initialising the PayPal transaction, so we need to display the shipping address as entered on our client's site and not the default address held by PayPal for the buyer.
I've tried sending address_override=1 along with the address parameters specified here (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables/) but the [Ship To] displayed is still that of the test account default address.
address_override=1
useraction=commit
token=XXXX
address1=XXXX
city=XXXX
state=CA
country=US
zip=XXXXX
first_name=XXX
last_name=XXX
Am I missing something obvious or should I be doing it differently?
Thanks.
Looks like you have set NOSHIPPING=0.
Please change your request and set NOSHIPPING=2
NOSHIPPING
Determines whether PayPal displays shipping address fields on the PayPal pages. For digital goods, this field is required, and you must set it to 1. Value is:
0 — PayPal displays the shipping address on the PayPal pages.
1 — PayPal does not display shipping address fields and removes shipping information from the transaction.
2 — If you do not pass the shipping address, PayPal obtains it from the buyer's account profile.
Another one thing is for Express checkout integration you need to refer the documentation in here:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/merchant/SetExpressCheckout_API_Operation_NVP/
The link that you have provided earlier is for paypal payment standard integration.
This will requires us to pull the log.
Kindly create an MTS ticket at our Technical Portal (https://www.paypal-techsupport.com/) and provide the EC token for further checking.
I am a bit lost in the PayPal world now, and can't beleive that just to obtain proper billing address, I can't use the super-simple BuyNow button thing anymore.
Is there any easy way to get billing address along with the minimal information that I get from PayPal? I have found the list of parameters I can pass in HTML Variables, but looks like billing info, like VAT number is not there.
Any ideas..?
One of the benefits of using PayPal for buyers is that they don't have to share billing info with all the different sellers they're buying from. As such, PayPal will provide a shipping address (when applicable) but not a billing address. If the address PayPal is returning for you isn't sufficient you'll have to build your own form to collect that info prior to sending the user to PayPal for payment.
I'm using secure-hosting as a middleman to process payments from my website which accepts credit card details and has an automatic paypal feature which essentially uses the paypal-api.
It processes payments fine and dandy, however our product isn't supposed to be delivered to the person who purchased it, it is sent to another (or many hundreds of) person(s) whose details are entered on our site by the purchaser.
The problem is that PayPal displays the purchaser's address as the delivery address both when the purchaser is signing into paypal and when they receive an invoice from paypal.
Does anyone know if there is an option to turn off this display of the delivery address/in the email? I've tried adding the no_shipping: '1' and NOSHIPPING=1 field when communicating with paypal but I believe this is to specify that the user doesn't have to supply an address because paypal will have a record of their address.
The ADDROVERRIDE variable determines whether or not the PayPal pages should display the shipping address set by you in this SetExpressCheckout request, not the shipping address on file with PayPal for this buyer. This would allow you to pass in a shipping address that your buyer enters into a form on your website, for example.
I'm using Payflowlink Pro Express Checkout
Flow:
User select items on merchant site.
User clicks buy and fill shipping address.
Server get rates from USPS and FedEx for selected items.
User selects desired postal service with defined rate.
Server calls paypal to setup transaction with selected shipping rate.
User on paypal where he or she able to change shipping address, but shipping rate is already calculated for address what he inputted on merchant site.
I've found a solution of my problem only for classic API (Instant update callback), but not for Payflow Pro Express Checkout
Like a part of solution, user'll be warned about this situation on merchant site, but.. How do I prevent the PP user to change the shipping address or tell me please if it is possible to use instant update callback for Payflow Pro Express Checkout?
Try using the ADDROVERIDE variable with a value of 1. Doing that tells PayPal to use the shipping address you provided and not the address the buyer has set in their PayPal account.
The ADDROVERIDE and the shipping variables are available in the Express Checkout for Payflow Pro guide.
Sorry, I wanted to add this as a comment to the above, but my reputation is < 50
For some reason I couldn't get NOSHIPPING=1 and ADDROVERIDE=1 to prevent paypal asking for the shipping address; It may be due to me not supplying the address to PayPal in the first place.
However, 'no_shipping=1' does prevents PayPal asking the user for the shipping address (for me at least)
I think there may be two different solutions based on certain scenarios, so if one is not working try the other.
I am about to set up an IPN script after users make a purchase from my site but I just had a thought, what if the email address they signed up to my site with differs from the email address they signed up to PayPal with?
i.e. they sign up to my site with forename.surname#domain.com but their PayPal account login is surname.forename#domain.com.
The PayPal IPN will send back surname.forename#domain.com and I have no way to identify who has just made that purchase.
I realise in this simple case it may be possible to find an email address similar to that in the database but in the real world people have crazy email addresses and that isn't always going to be possible.
Has anyone solved this problem before?
It may be best to use a different identifier such as an invoice number or pass a custom value to PayPal for the payment. PayPal will return this via IPN and can be used to link the payment to the customer's account on your website.
This way you pass a value to PayPal that is linked back to that customer's account regardless of their PayPal account details.
Hope this helps!
I suggest that you should force the customers log in before placing an order, then you can get the email they used in Paypal from the return value, and combine the two emails in some way or even just leave them.