The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue

Hi Nicolas,

Have reached a fairly close understanding of HikaShop - it's a "damn good cup of coffee" - excellent job!... However there are issues (as is for everything else), and one of these are:

When creating a new shipping address, the original billing address changes to the new shipping address.

The original billing address must not be changed, has to be maintained.

The customer should be able to add several shipping addresses among which he now and later on can select from. Still without the risk of altering the original billing address. The two address types should be sort of independent of each other.

This issue is essential and important to many customers. How can I solve this? Maybe in a temporarely way here and now, and then later on more professionally.

I am aware that this has been discussed several times, but afaik still no solution.

I can PM you a link in the contact form.

Thanks!
Lee

Hi Nicolas,

Well, we use the 1.5.7 for now. I am aware that we can upgrade to 1.5.8, but this will lead to heavy comparison of files as a lot of mods have been made - mostly overrides but also in other files (backups have been made of the original files). So for now, I guess updating is not the best idea.

We have disabled the shipping address features as they were quite impossible to control, and replaced it with a custom field.

If you are interested to see our work, i shall forward a link to the live beta site (not open to the public yet).We still need to do some minor modifications as well as lots of content. An evaluation would be nice and maybe you could come up with further bright ideas when you see it.?

Have a nice monday...
Lee

Hi Nicholas,
I'm so close to getting this type of modification to work for me.

The situation is that my website allows no registration, and I have manual shipping set up and working (based on address).

I would like my shipping method populated by a custom field (item) that I have named shiptocountry which is a zone, country. Since I am not using the user addresses in the checkout, how would I call this item in the address_view.php? Shipping will always be based on this custom item field.

My checkout / address.php has been already been pared down to:

<?php
if($this->identified){
?>
<?php
if($this->has_shipping) ?>
<?php
echo $this->loadTemplate('view');
?>
<?php

Before you spend time on this, it appears I wasn't as close as I thought I was.
Checkout is still looking for a billing or shipping address. Going back to using the billing address as the shipping address.
Thank you.