Maybe I am missing something but doesn't Satchmo provide, billing and shipping info as two separate sections on the form?
There's a check box to say that the shipping info is the same as billing info, etc isn't there? Would you just be able to specify a different shipping address? On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Aleksandr Vladimirskiy < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on developing a store with Satchmo. One of the project's > requirements is to customize the checkout process to allow users to select a > pre-defined shipping address other than their own billing address or the > shipping address stored with their contact info. I've spent sometime looking > through the way Satchmo handles checkout and would love to get a sanity > check from the group to see if my understanding is correct. > > The first step in the checkout process is the billing and shipping address > form. The shipping information entered on this form is actually stored back > in the user's contact info as part of the Contact form save method. The > second step is the payment form. At the beginning of this step Satchmo > creates an Order object for the user and uses the shipping address from the > user's contact as the shipping address for the order. > > I've come to the conclusion that in order to customize the available > shipping address options I'll have to prevent Satchmo from storing the > shipping address chosen in step one of the checkout process into the user's > contact info and customize the creation of the Order object in step two so > that an address other than user's shipping address can be used. > > I hope to use the form wizard functionality available in Django 1.0 to > separate the billing and shipping forms in step one. > > Any feedback on the above will be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers! > > -- > Aleksandr Vladimirskiy > > > > -- http://www.sudovi.com/ http://www.twitter.com/lifewithryan http://www.thecommontongue.com http://www.lifewithryan.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
