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Make “Ship to This Address” Default in Magento Checkout

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Through my dealings with several online E-Commerce stores, I’d say about 80% of customers want to have their goods delivered to the address that their card is registered to (their invoice address).  Not many people opt to have it to a different delivery address, therefore many Magento users have been asking me how to make this option default.  Well, it’s quite easy really, and is only a simple edit.

Just navigate to: app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Block/Onepage/Billing.php and replace…

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public function isUseBillingAddressForShipping()
{
        if (($this->getQuote()->getIsVirtual()) || !$this->getQuote()->getShippingAddress()->getSameAsBilling()) 
        {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
}

..with…

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public function isUseBillingAddressForShipping()
{
        if (($this->getQuote()->getIsVirtual()) || (!$this->getQuote()->getShippingAddress()->getSameAsBilling()))
        {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
}

Hope that helps!

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    This article was written by Sam Davis on November 27, 2008.
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One Response to “Make “Ship to This Address” Default in Magento Checkout”

  1. Rob Janssen on December 19th, 2008

    Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks. It’s too bad one has to assemble most of the information about Magento via Google and blogs…

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