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Ken
Ken

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Retrieve Buyer Address with Paypal Digital Goods Transaction (or alternate solutions)

I'm integrating paypal into a site for a friend, and this is the first time that I've used paypal's API.

His site operates in a high fraud market exchanging digital goods, but because he's a reseller of said goods, it's in his best interests to avoid buyer fraud (paypal chargebacks) as much as possible.

Currently I'm attempting to integrate paypal express checkout with digital goods but as part of our buyer verification, I need to specify that the user enter their address into paypal. I would like them to enter it into paypal because it's a trusted third party, and in theory, I can then get their address from paypal to verify their identity.

I can set up the website to do the standard method of having them enter their shipping address into the website and then pass the information onto paypal, but I'm afraid it would negatively impact sales.

However, with digital goods it seems that paypal doesn't handle a shipping address at all. Currently it's not a problem as he's using the premade buttons that already ask for shipping information, so I would like to replicate that functionality.

So, I have two questions:

1) Is it possible to get paypal to request a shipping address for a digital transaction?

2) Is it possible to set up an express checkout payment where the buyer enters their shipping information into paypal and NOT into my site?

I really hope somebody can help as I've been beating my head against this every night for a week.

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Answers (1)

user557846
user557846

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paypal ipn returns the address, when you post to payapl they will request an address by default

https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/wp_standard_overview/

no_shipping =2 is prompt for and require an address

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