WP eStore – How Not to Ask For Shipping Address on PayPal Checkout Page

[amin007]

WP eStore will ask your customer for address when they checkout a physical product that has shipping requirement. For digital item checkout it will prompt for an address but the address is not required.

If you want to make it so you never want to ask for the address then follow this tweak.

The tweak in this post applies to the “Add to Cart” button types of WP eStore plugin.

Never Collect Address on PayPal Checkout Page

Add the following PHP code to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter('eStore_pp_checkout_no_shipping_value', 'custom_tweak_to_remove_address_prompt');



function custom_tweak_to_remove_address_prompt($value)

{

$value = '1';

return $value;

}

Remember, if you do this change then no address will be stored in the manage customers menu.

Always Force Customers to Enter an Address on PayPal Checkout Page

Add the following PHP code to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter('eStore_pp_checkout_no_shipping_value', 'custom_tweak_to_force_address_collection');



function custom_tweak_to_force_address_collection($value)

{

$value = '2';

return $value;

}

[dnavarrojr]

But it still keeps/stores the customer’s email address, right?

[amin007]

Yes, it will still store the email address.

[ullat]

How about the form for customers without a paypal-account (credit card payment). Can I remove/hide the address fields from this one as well?

[Ivy]

Unfortunately PayPal does not allow you to hide this information for credit card purchase as it needs this to verify the credit card.

[friendsjournal]

I would like to force collection of shipping address, but the code block noted above is more complex in the current version of eStore_payment_submission.php (WP eStore v. 6.75). What is the correct change to make?

[admin]

It will force the address collection for any checkout with a shipping amount. So my question to you is the following:

Do you want to force address collection for each checkout regardless if the item is digital or physical?

[friendsjournal]

Yes, I’d like to force address collection for each checkout regardless if the item is digital or physical. The Shipping=$0.001 workaround works, but I’d rather not have to use it.

[admin]

Okay, I have updated the 1st post which should answer your question. Please check the “Always Force Customer to Enter an Address” section in the first post of this tread.

[friendsjournal]

Thanks!

[dbc1717]

Hi. I am using estore 6.4.9 and tried the fix given above:

Once you find it, add the following line just below the above mentioned line:

$myPaypal->addField(‘no_shipping’, ‘2’);

To try and force paypal to collect an address. I am using a “buy now” button.

Unfortunately, when I log onto paypal, I have no address. What did I do wrong?

Thanks

[dbc1717]

I did try the trick of adding .001 in shipping. Is there any disadvantage of doing this if we do not have a better fix?

[wpCommerce]

Hi, Can you please install a fresh copy of the plugin first:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/re-install-or-load-a-fresh-build-of-the-plugins

[WebGuy123]

Hello. Is it possible to configure the add to cart button (or the buy now button) to only ask for shipping address on physical products, but to not display the shipping address fields for digital products on PayPal? We sell both physical and digital products and do not want people that order digital products to be asked for a shipping address. Please advise.

[admin]

It already does that for shopping cart checkout. Are you not seeing this behavior on your site?

[Author]

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