Shipping Address Not Stored In Address Book

[mc38]

Hoping for some help...

 

We are using OSCommerce to create a Retailer Ordering System (rather than a fully public shop).

 

There are two types of orders our retailers will be placing. For "normal" orders to be shipped to their shop, they will just leave the Shipping Address as the default - no problem.

 

For orders that they want us to drop ship to their clients, they would use Change Address and enter the address where we should ship the product to. The problem is that this address is always added to the address book. We don't want this - want more of a temporary address, just to complet the order - without it being saved in the address book. (the reason is that their address books would get filled with junk very fast...the addresses are only used once...)

 

I think it should either be

- checkout / change address / enter new shipping address / this gets used on order but not saved in address book, or

- checkout / change address / enter new address / continue / confirm order / delete shipping address (that was just added to complete the order)

 

Can anyone see a way to do this? or done something similar?

thanks!

[CentralMass]

We are looking to do this too.

 

I have added a modification to make it much easier for the buyer to enter a dropshipping address. I used css display none feature to not show the form until the user clicks the button.

 

What happens is that no matter how many allowable addresses you set in the admin, this just adds one more to the list. We allow for 5 addresses, but this will just keep going up.

 

We know we need the shipping address for the order, but does it need to be saved in the address book, can we set it to just drop it on the floor?

 

At best it would be ideal if we could just overwrite address number 5 everytime in the address book.

 

My only concern for this is what impact does overwriting do to any other part of the system? Is the order dependant on the address book at all? If not then we can do it this way.

 

Attached is an image of how it looks closed and opened.