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I'm using Authorize.net to process payments for an event registration. I have address verification and card code verification turned off in Authorize.net, so the only info Authorize.net needs to process a transaction is the card number, exp, and amount. It doesn't even need a name. So can I get rid of the "Billing name and address" block in CiviCRM then that shows up after the credit card information?

I actually do want to collect address info, but it makes for a very awkward form as it's presented, given that I want to collect phone number too, and I don't actually care about the billing name -- I want the participant name. So for example if a teen is registering using a parent's credit card, I want to end up with the teen's name registered for the event and not the parent's name. I don't want to have two name fields because that will just be redundant for most users.

The simplest solution I can think of is to eliminate the billing info block entirely since it's not necessary to process the transaction, and then use regular profile fields to collect the participant's name/address/phone. I suppose it would also work if I could add the phone number field to this block and change the wording to delete the word "billing".

I'm okay with hacking core files if it gets rid of that pesky billing info block. Would love some guidance in the right direction. Thanks!

In 4.x, there's a "Billing address is same as ..." checkbox which hides the fields.

But! It hides them, even if there's a required field in that block which is unpopulated. Which is really confusing for people.

I worked around this with a hook_civicrm_buildForm() implementation to ignore the required status on those fields.

Here: https://gist.github.com/xurizaemon/6984345