shipping address for free shipping item

I found a problem on 1.4.9.4, I am not sure if it si a bug. there has no Shipping Address choose area When I order a free shipping item. There has only payment address choose area. The results is no shipping address on order confirm page. I think the customer will confuse on this step. sometimes the payment address and shipping address is different.

can choose shipping address and payment address if an item is need shipping fee.
anybody can help?

By "free shipping item" do you mean an item that has "Requires Shipping" set to "No"? That's different than having free shipping. If you need free shipping for individual items, check out this mod:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=23895

thanks Johnathan, but I mean, when item is not requires shipping, there has no shipping address can be choose on check out page, only show your payment address. In SALES>ORDERS of administration panel only has payment address too, no shipping address. Why has no shipping address on free shipping item?

actually, this case will happened with item's weight is 0.

rencat wrote:Why has no shipping address on free shipping item?

Because "Not Requiring Shipping" isn't the same as "Free Shipping". If an item doesn't require shipping, that means it doesn't need a shipping address. Usually this is used for downloadable or digital items.

You should look at the link I posted, which lets you choose which products Free Shipping applies to. That seems to have the system that you want.

Or, if you don't mind editing a file, you can disable the part of the code that skips the shipping step in 1.4.9.x by performing this edit:

IN: REPLACE: WITH:

I am using OC2.0 and have the same need, can you help me how to change the code so that the shipping address can be collected for item marker as shipping not required? Thanks a lot.

I now have an inexpensive extension that does this: Change Requires Shipping to Free Shipping