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Hello

I think that the payment is a good time to get the information that the customer definitely has to enter into the system. Firstly, I'm not sure if it's just me, but if we do have a billing address for a customers, it's not being passed onto Paypal. Secondly the user enters all the details on Paypal and CiviCRM doesn't bother capturing it from the IPN request.

Any suggestions regarding this?

Thanks for the reply

Billing address information is not required for Paypal Standard hence billing block is not exposed if payment processor is Paypal Standard.

It's optional. If you send it, it will mean that the user who is paying without logging in doesn't have to enter it. There's a good chance he will log in though so it's not really appropriate to try and capture the address elsewhere on the site for this purpose but this still would be a good feature. The next point was more important.

I am not sure if IPN request sends all the information that user enters on paypal site. I think required information like transaction id is stored in CiviCRM.

Just had another look at the Paypal IPN spec and you're right, it doesn't send back billing details, only shipping and the Paypal standard module does not give tell Paypal that it wants this so fine.

Thanks!