Thread: PO Box Shipping

Can I edit the "DisAllowShippingToPOBoxes" to include more permutations in order to catch those who are getting through that filter?

DisallowShippingToPOBoxes is just a boolean flag, so there aren't many modifications you can make to that itself, however you could modify some of the logic around it, such as how to determine if an address is a P.O. address.

The easiest thing to do would be to open the solution in Visual Studio and search for DisallowShippingToPOBoxes. You should find ~6 results depending on your version. Where you find them, you can change the way we determine whether or not an address is a P.O. address. For example, in checkout1.aspx.cs you can change the following line

Code:

bool IsPOBoxAddress = (Adr1.StartsWith("pobox", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) || Adr1.StartsWith("box", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) || Adr1.IndexOf("postoffice") != -1);

to include other variations or permutations of addresses that you are seeing come though that are indeed P.O box addresses.

In version 8.0.1.2, the following files have references to DisallowShippingToPOBoxes:

• Non-Source Files
  
  • checkout1.aspx.cs
  • createaccount.aspx.cs
  • editaddress.aspx.cs
  • selectaddress.aspx.cs
• Source Files (requires source code and a recompile)
  
  • GoogleCheckout.cs
  • Address.cs

Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention that this particular store I'm working on is version 7.0.25.

Also, I found the boolean reference under RejectDueToPOBoxAddress. I tried to exit this in the createaccount.aspx.vb file. The only permutations that were missing were P.O. Box and p.o.box, however, when I tried to add these I received a compilation error. Any suggestions?