Shipping details form & pre-population with PayPal

[geofbal]

When I sell a physical product via your WP estore and PayPal, I can find no way to see what the shipping address is of the buyer. PayPal just sends me an email saying that the product has been paid for but the shipping address was inputted at the PayPal checkout and not forwarded to me.

What I really want to do is have the buyer fill in a form with all his details: name, address, email, etc. which I can save to a database of buyers, forward to a third party and pre-populate the PayPal form so that the buyer does not need to type his info. in twice. I know PayPal has the pre-populate possibility but cannot figure out how it works.

Newbie from Greece!

Regards,

Geof.

[amin007]

PayPal does give you the shipping address of the buyer. The shipping address will be specified in the PayPal payment notification email that you get from PayPal after every transaction (there will be a section called Postal address in this email).

eStore follows the express checkout philosophy so that your customer can just click on the checkout button and arrive on the payment page (less data to fill). More explanation here:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-ecommerce-knowledgebase-523

You can also place a contact form on the “Thank You” page that will collect all the necessary shipping data from the customer after the payment. This way you can customize what fields you want to place to collect the data using a free WordPress contact form plugin. You will customer will fill this in when they get redirected to the “Thank You” page after they make the payment.

[geofbal]

Many thanks for your prompt reply…service indeed!!

I have found the customer details in the customer database. What I need to do is send these to a third party who will post the product. Is there a simple way to include some of the customer details in an email (except copy & paste)?

Finally, what is the free WordPress contact form plugin and where can I find it?

Thanks,

Geof.

[amin007]

Use the following tag in the email body which will add the buyers shipping details in the email that gets sent after the purchase:

{shipping_info} – Buyer’s shipping address

all the available email tags are listed here:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-shortcodes-and-functions-reference-460

[geofbal]

Thanks for that.

Something else, I wish to use the Belcher button in his original size (Large) on my landing pages (using [wp_eStore:product_id:1:end])but if I specify this button in the “Add to Cart button text or Image” calling an image file, I get the same large image with the WP eStore codes (like: [wp_eStore_fancy1 id=1][wp_eStore_fancy2 id=2] which is really too big and makes the pages with these listings very clunky.

Is it possible to use a small button with the fancy codes and a large button on the landing pages? Is there some code with which I can link the large button to the shopping cart with if I just use an image of the large Belcher button?

Regards,

Geof.

[geofbal]

Well, I found a way to do it.

I copy the html code for the “Add to cart” button [wp_eStore:product_id:1:end] that has the small belcher button that I made, and modify the img tag to show the larger button I need on certain pages, and insert the html on those pages instead of [wp_eStore:product_id:1:end]

For an example go to: [http://www.skiathos-direct.com/?page_id=52#wp_cart_anchor]

which is just a page I experiment on for the time being.

This seems to work.

Is there an easier work round or can you see any complications arising through using the above method?

Regards,

Geof.

[Ivy]

Hi, The easiest way to do this is to make a copy of the product and use the Button Image URL option (this allows you to specify a button image for that product).

eStore Settings > Add/ Edit Products > Additional Product Details > Button Image URL

Product one would be the small button

Product two would be the one with the larger button

This way all you need to do is change the product id in the shortcode to display which button you want to.

[wpCommerce]

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/text-lnks

[geofbal]

Many thanks, I think that is going to do it.

Regards,

Geof.

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