Suggestion Implemented Any way to hide physical address from other users on paypal?

[john917]

Is there an option to hide people's address from being revealed when using the payment system? I believe it shows because it thinks of it as a "physical product" so it reveals the address? Maybe I'm wrong on this part.


Address is also revealed to person receiving the payment through email under "shipping address":

 

[Clement]

You are using the custom payment method or the xF payment profiles ?

 

[john917]

Custom payment method as I need to get commision after each transaction.

 

[Clement]

This needs a code change.
That's because I pass a require confirm shipping to Paypal but I think this was required for seller protection to work afterwards in case of claim.

 

[john917]

Can we have the option to disable the shipping and pass it as a service? I think some users would prefer to have their address hidden, especially those run by donations.

Would help increase sales without a doubt for a large amount of sites.

 

[Clement]

What do you mean as a service ?
An option for sellers to require that parameter set or not ?

 

[john917]

What do you mean as a service ?
An option for sellers to require that parameter set or not ?

Yes, I'm not too sure if I have it right but from my understanding, PayPal sellers can sell as a physical product or instead a service type. One shows address while other doesn't.

This is one of couple I've found that mentions this. This particular article mentions how service and even personal payment types won't reveal home address due to it not needing a shipping address.

Does PayPal Show My Address When I Send Or Receive Money? – Bandit Tracker

bandittracker.com

 

[Clement]

Yeah not sure how it maps with our API.
I suspect there is one API parameter for that but not sure it acts on that.

If you want to try, edit all the files in src/addons/XFA/Core/Service/Paypal.
Search for

$this->reqConfirmShipping

replace by

0

 

[john917]

Interesting, there seems to be options implemented already? Unless I'm looking at the wrong file?

SetExpressCheckout.php

 

[john917]

Hmm seems like noshipping doesn't work.

However, after researching express checkout api, there seems to be this option here?
Source: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/REST-APIs/REST-API-Remove-shipping-address/td-p/1548950

Basically, they implement application_context and put the shipping_preference to no_shipping. Not sure where to implement this; would you be able to give this a try?

 

[Clement]

Did you replace all instances as I stated ?

What you points out is a different payment service implementation, paypal has multiple.

 

[john917]

Please see next post.

 

[john917]

Ok nvm got it working... just need your help to fix with redirect error.

If you can try changing SetExpressCheckout.php with these variables (I changed 'noshipping' to 1, 'reqconfirmshipping' to 0, and 'addoverride' to 0).

    public function run()
    {
        /* Prepare the set checkout fields */
        $SECFields = array(
            'token'                 => '',
            'returnurl'             => $this->returnUrl,
            'cancelurl'             => $this->cancelUrl,
            'reqconfirmshipping'    => 0,     // The value 1 indicates that you require that the customer's shipping address is Confirmed with PayPal.  This overrides anything in the account profile.  Possible values are 1 or 0.
            'noshipping'            => 1,  // The value 1 indicates that on the PayPal pages, no shipping address fields should be displayed.  Maybe 1 or 0.
            'allownote'             => '1',                         // The value 1 indicates that the customer may enter a note to the merchant on the PayPal page during checkout.  The note is returned in the GetExpresscheckoutDetails response and the DoExpressCheckoutPayment response.  Must be 1 or 0.
            'addroverride'          => '0',                          // The value 1 indicates that the PayPal pages should display the shipping address set by you in the SetExpressCheckout request, not the shipping address on file with PayPal.  This does not allow the customer to edit the address here.  Must be 1 or 0.
            'email'                 => $this->buyerEmail,
            'solutiontype'          => 'Mark',                      // Normal checkout
            'landingpage'           => 'Billing'                    // Billing page, not log-in page
        );

Everything works and address is now hidden on both seller and buyer.

However on xenforo, instead of redirecting back to resource page, it shoots this error:
Please enter a value for the required field 'name'.

 

[Clement]

You didn't have that error before the change ?

 

[john917]

You didn't have that error before the change ?

Not for me.

Have you tested it yet?

 

[Clement]

No, I will test that at a later stage.

 

[john917]

Is there anything you can think of I could try? I got it almost working but this redirect is confusing my users and just looks unprofessional for them

 

[Clement]

I checked the code it would need other modifications.

You could try by replacing in src/addons/RMMarketplace/Pub/Controller/Purchase.php and replace:

$getExpressCheckoutDetails->getName()

By:

'-'

 

[john917]

This was working on an old version of the addon, but with the latest version, I had to change $getExpressCheckoutDetails->getName() to '-' in /Pub/Controller/Order.php but I get this error now

xfa_core_error_processing_payment

Can we make this an official feature for the addon? It was working so well and is such a great feature. @Clement

 

[Clement]

This was working on an old version of the addon, but with the latest version, I had to change $getExpressCheckoutDetails->getName() to '-' in /Pub/Controller/Order.php but I get this error now

Yeah as I said you need to apply it at every new version.

xfa_core_error_processing_payment

I think the sentence is missing in the core addon.

Can we make this an official feature for the addon? It was working so well and is such a great feature. @Clement

This is added to the feature request so I'll most certainly consider it at some point.