[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue ## - **[leez300](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile")** - [![leez300's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/6329-leez300) Less More - Posts: 16 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 3 months ago [\#58331](#58331) by [leez300](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile") *[The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue](/forum/4-how-to/58331-the-billing-address-and-shipping-addresses-issue#58331 "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")* was created by *[leez300](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile")* 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 Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU4MzMxLXRoZS1iaWxsaW5nLWFkZHJlc3MtYW5kLXNoaXBwaW5nLWFkZHJlc3Nlcy1pc3N1ZT90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86359 - Thank you received: 14293 - - 14 years 3 months ago [\#58408](#58408) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue](/forum/4-how-to/58331-the-billing-address-and-shipping-addresses-issue#58408 "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, The selected shipping and billing addresses are independent from one another. When you add a shipping address, the billing address should stay the same. That's how it works in the latest versions of HikaShop. Are you sure that you're using the latest version without any address related view files override ? I recall that we did some modifications on the address selection system following feedbacks that you probably saw on our forum so if you don't have the latest version, you might want to update and try again. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU4MzMxLXRoZS1iaWxsaW5nLWFkZHJlc3MtYW5kLXNoaXBwaW5nLWFkZHJlc3Nlcy1pc3N1ZT90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[leez300](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile")** - [![leez300's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/6329-leez300) Less More - Posts: 16 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 3 months ago [\#58434](#58434) by [leez300](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile") Replied by *[leez300](/forum/user/6329-leez300 "View leez300's Profile")* on topic *[Re: The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue](/forum/4-how-to/58331-the-billing-address-and-shipping-addresses-issue#58434 "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 Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU4MzMxLXRoZS1iaWxsaW5nLWFkZHJlc3MtYW5kLXNoaXBwaW5nLWFkZHJlc3Nlcy1pc3N1ZT90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86359 - Thank you received: 14293 - - 14 years 3 months ago [\#58553](#58553) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue](/forum/4-how-to/58331-the-billing-address-and-shipping-addresses-issue#58553 "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, Why not yes. One solution might to try to update only the components/com_hikashop/checkout/view.html.php, components/com_hikashop/checkout/tmpl/address_view.php, components/com_hikashop/checkout/tmpl/address.php, components/com_hikashop/controllers/address.php, adminsitrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/address.php files from the installation package. you might also have to add the column address_default in the hikashop_address table if it's not there. But I strongly recommend to do a backup before doing that as I can't guarantee the result of such partial update. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzU4MzMxLXRoZS1iaWxsaW5nLWFkZHJlc3MtYW5kLXNoaXBwaW5nLWFkZHJlc3Nlcy1pc3N1ZT90bXBsPW1hcmtkb3du) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[LenaK](/forum/user/6546-lenak "View LenaK's Profile")** - [![LenaK's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/6546-lenak "View LenaK's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/6546-lenak) Less More - Posts: 20 - Thank you received: 0 - - 14 years 2 weeks ago - 14 years 2 weeks ago [\#71049](#71049) by [LenaK](/forum/user/6546-lenak "View LenaK's Profile") Replied by *[LenaK](/forum/user/6546-lenak "View LenaK's Profile")* on topic *[Re: The Billing Address and Shipping Addresses Issue](/forum/4-how-to/58331-the-billing-address-and-shipping-addresses-issue#71049 "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 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. Last edit: 14 years 2 weeks ago by [LenaK](/forum/user/6546-lenak "View LenaK's Profile"). 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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, Yes LenaK, I don't see an easy way to do that. If you remove the address view from the checkout workflow, no address will be attached. 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