This should be the complete block of raw JavaScript in your View Cart code for the customizations you mention (not including any other customization lines you may have):



<!--

function EJEJC_lc(th) { return false; }

function EJEJC_config() {

EJEJC_POSTCALL=true;

}

function EJEJC_shown() {

jQuery("#country1").attr("innerHTML", "Call from country");

jQuery("#state1").attr("innerHTML", "Zipcode for info only");

}

// -->



BTW, you can restrict buyers to USA only in your Admin > Cart Shipping Settings > Shipping Destinations -- just click United States in the list, so it is the only one highlighted, and that will make United States the only country option listed in the cart.

I cannot even imagine any possible hack that would work to remove the country/zip fields from the cart while still triggering collection of the buyer's address from PayPal.

While the code can theoretically be made to do just about anything, all of our services run from a common codebase shared by all Merchants, so there is no way to modify the code for just one Merchant that does not also apply that same modification to every other Merchant as well, since no Merchant runs their own, private copy of the code. We would need to find a way to do what you ask that does not affect or break anything for everyone else. Moreover, while we do appreciate your point, what you are asking is not as trivial modification as it might seem at first glance, and it does indeed open a whole can of worms entailing quite a bit of special, complicated logic; it's not merely a matter of hiding some fields in the cart.



Our shipping calculation routines require information provided in those fields, so we can't simply make those fields optional for everyone and then provide a way to hide them in the layout. We could make them optional only when a Merchant disables USPS rates (and there's a few ways that could happen), but then how would we account for custom Domestic vs. International rates? Okay, so then they're optional only when USPS rates are disabled in any one of several ways, but then the Country field becomes required again when a custom Int'l rate differs from Domestic, except when the sole chosen Shipping destination is the same Country as the Merchant's own Country...



I'm sure there are even more conditionals I haven't even thought of, and all this has to be foolproof and applied into our existing code logic, which may not be trivially amenable to integrating that logic. This doesn't even get into the matter of how to hide those fields and provide a toggle-able switch to do that. All of the time Development would spend accomplishing this special favor would be time taken away from their other tasks, namely, general system-wide improvements and paving the way for future growth and reliability, not to mention far more popularly-requested or trivially-achievable wishlist items for new features.



We can put your request on our list for future consideration; we just can't promise it will get a higher priority than general improvements and more popular/easy new-feature requests.

I also would like e-junkie allow customers to enter a shipping address. It sucks having to email someone for their shipping addy after they have paid via paypal. Make it happen PLEASE!



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Lemonbar, what you want can't simply be done with E-junkie.

lemonbar,



Reading through the post makes me question what you are trying to accomplish. It sounds like you're trying to collect shipping information to have PayPal protect your sales. The problem with that is that they will only protect your sale if you actually ship something. You stated: "This will scare off customers since my product is digital delivery". If it is digital delivery and you don't ship anything, collecting the shipping address will not protect you.



This is one of the bad things about "digital delivery". As the seller of a digital delivery product, we have come to grip with the fact that there is nothing we can do to protect our sales unless we physically ship a product with a service that provides tracking information.



We've tried to provide evidence (activation information, email correspondence, etc.) but we have never been successful in fighting a dispute because of the fact that we don't ship anything.



In this case, e-junkie does not need to provide this feature. I could, however, see it being useful if you have a set shipping charge inside the actual price of your product and don't need to calculate tax or shipping before they reach the PayPal/Google Checkout page.



John

MuvEnum

lemonbarWhy is that?



That coding would be so trivial it almost makes me giggle.



Logic is there. Just ads a conditional and you are good to go.



Im not so sure its clear what I am asking about.



1- Give us a checkbox to select this option



2-if the checkbox is marked then dont display the zipcode addaress stuff in the cart (like is can and already does)



3-if the checkbox is marked then force paypal to require the address (like is can and already does).



Hard part is done.

I am not really sure how to respond to this .. except by saying that .. no, it's not that trivial. We support variety of payment processors and we have to think about quite a few scenarios.



Also, our policy is not add unnecessary options in our admin. If you want the shipping address of the buyer, then making them enter a zipcode in the cart is not really going to scare them. What's going to scare them (and I am telling you this from my personal experience .. as I am a buyer too) is to give their address to a merchant who they don't know much about.

renzskaI could, however, see it being useful if you have a set shipping charge inside the actual price of your product and don't need to calculate tax or shipping before they reach the PayPal/Google Checkout page.

That's the way we had it for a while after Patrick @ BingCardCreator's recommendation of not asking buyer for the zipcode if you are not doing tax/shipping calculation but then on transparent checkout page (after the cart - before the payment processor) we have to check for each product's setting and merchant's tax and shipping rules again to determine whether to proceed with the checkout with 0 tax and shipping or whether to throw an error and that's an overhead we wanted to avoid .. so we reverted back to asking zipcode and then simply using presence of zipcode.



Apart from that it was causing issues in cases where we host the checkout page (PayPal Pro - Direct payments, Authorize.Net, E-j Free Checkout) .. and since we are big fans of consistency, we decided to ask for zipcodes in all cases. It's just easier to manage and explain and reduces the chances of unexpected results.



I hope this makes sense.

Can you get the address without triggering Paypal even? We just need the address and we don't ship items.