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So, I started using Paypal Standard, but noticed that billing information was not being properly populated to PayPal once my customers left my cart to pay at PayPal. They were being forced to enter their billing address again...

Long story short, I tracked this all down to the "state" not being sent to PayPal standard with the rest of their billing address information, so PayPal viewed it as being in "invalid format" and left all those fields blank.

Here's what I did to fix it for 1.5.1:

In /catalog/controller/payment/pp_standard.php (around line 53), after ADD
Then, in /catalog/view/theme/default/template/payment/pp_standard.tpl (around line 31), after
ADD
This has allowed PayPal Standard to now recognize my customer's billing address and relieves them of having to enter it twice.

Hopes this helps someone else!

Thank you - major help!

notaprogrammer wrote:Thank you - major help!

NP, glad I was able to help someone else!

Thanks! Huge help!

I also changed the billing variables to shipping as mentioned in other forums.

waterfi wrote:Thanks! Huge help!

I also changed the billing variables to shipping as mentioned in other forums.

Glad you got it working.

mfive wrote:So, I started using Paypal Standard, but noticed that billing information was not being properly populated to PayPal once my customers left my cart to pay at PayPal. They were being forced to enter their billing address again...

Long story short, I tracked this all down to the "state" not being sent to PayPal standard with the rest of their billing address information, so PayPal viewed it as being in "invalid format" and left all those fields blank.

Here's what I did to fix it for 1.5.1:

In /catalog/controller/payment/pp_standard.php (around line 53), after

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$this->data['city'] = html_entity_decode($order_info['payment_city'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

ADD

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$this->data['state'] = html_entity_decode($order_info['payment_zone_code'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

Then, in /catalog/view/theme/default/template/payment/pp_standard.tpl (around line 31), after

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<input type="hidden" name="city" value="<?php echo $city; ?>" />

ADD

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<input type="hidden" name="state" value="<?php echo $state; ?>" />

This has allowed PayPal Standard to now recognize my customer's billing address and relieves them of having to enter it twice.

Hopes this helps someone else!

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to mfive,
Thank you so much ! ! !

This works great, thanks for the fix!

Are you by chance getting the telephone number field to populate in PayPal Standard? In my case, visitors have to enter it twice, once in OC and again in PayPal Standard. Do you have a similar fix for that?