I'm also interested in this. Is it possible to have a separate "Checkout through Paypal" button on the Shopping Cart page so that the customer doesn't have to fill out all his shipping/billing info if he has it on paypal already?
Thanks On Feb 8, 4:16 pm, Allan Stavely <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Shaun! The workflow shown in that PayPal picture is much as > I'd like my store to operate. > > But the Satchmo templates currently collect billing and shipping > information even if the user selects PayPal for payment. > > Here's how I'd like my store to work, ideally: > > 1. On the checkout page, the customer sees the shipping selector > first, or perhaps both the payment selector and the shipping > selector on the same page. > > 2. Based on the shipping choice, the customer may be presented with > a shipping address form. (I'm in a university town, and I offer > free shipping using campus mail to addresses at my university. > A customer who selects this option must provide a campus address.) > Otherwise, my site won't ask for billing or shipping information > -- that will be left for PayPal to do. > > 3. At the end of checkout, the customer is redirected to the PayPal > site. PayPal returns a shipping address to me, which I'll use > in the customer hasn't given me another address. > > Can this be done with the current PayPal payment module? Can I > accomplish this mostly by rearranging templates, without rewriting > large amounts of Python or Javascript? > > And similarly for Google Checkout? > > Thanks again, > > - Allan > > > > > > > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Shaun Laughey wrote: > > Hi Allan, > > > I had issues with paypal developer site on Friday I had to create a new > > gmail account just for the purpose. > > > It also killed 2 of my test accounts - something is wrong with the password > > reset function so I now try to avoid that. > > > As for the paypal address thing have a read of this: > > >https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_additional-payment-ref-... > > > And yes you can get feedback of the shipping and billing stuff from the IPN > > post back or you read it from paypal when using express checkout... > > > Regards, > > Shaun Laughey > > > On 7 February 2011 16:08, allan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hello all, > > >> When my store uses the PayPal payment module, what shipping and > >> billing information does Satchmo send to PayPal? If the user doesn't > >> already have a PayPal account, does PayPal use that information, or > >> ask the user to enter it all again? If the user already has a PayPal > >> account with shipping and billing information on file, does that > >> information override what the user entered on the Satchmo checkout > >> page? Are the two sets of information compared? Does PayPal feed its > >> shipping and billing info back to Satchmo? > > >> I plan to open a store using only PayPal and Google Checkout and not > >> processing credit cards myself. I'm wondering whether I need to > >> collect billing information on my checkout page at all. I certainly > >> don't want to annoy my customers by making them enter a lot of > >> unnecessary information. > > >> BTW, I would test some of this myself, but I have not yet been able to > >> open a functioning PayPay Sandbox account. Every time I go through > >> the process, I respond to the confirmation email and am told that the > >> confirmation was successful, but the email address and password don't > >> work. I go through the password recovery link and am told that PayPal > >> doesn't even know the email address that I just registered! Has > >> anyone else had this problem? > > >> Thanks, > > >> - Allan > > >> -- > >> 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. > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en. -- 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.
