eoghanobrien-checkout-shipping

[stone tundra]

Hello 👋
Good question! Not sure, let me check..

[vital pike]

I should add that I need to use automatic_tax_enabled=true for my implementation also.

[stone tundra]

One alternative I was thinking of was to collect and provide the shipping address when creating a checkout session which doesn't seem to be an option here

if you set customer_update[shipping] to never, do you get an API error?

[stone tundra]

@vital pike ?

[vital pike]

Sorry, missed this

Yes, I get an error:

Automatic tax calculation uses fields saved on the Customer. To collect a shipping address with automatic_tax enabled, set customer_update[shipping] to 'auto' to save the shipping address back to the Customer.

I am currently collecting the shipping address prior to sending the customer to Checkout, I'm doing that by creating/updating a customer's address. I was hoping for an alternative to that but I can't see one.

[stone tundra]

Quick question: are you setting pre-collected shipping address to customer.address or customer.shipping.address ?

I tried creating a Checkout Session for a customer with shipping address pre-set & automatic_tax enabled. It didn't ask me to set customer_update[shipping] to auto

I am currently collecting the shipping address prior to sending the customer to Checkout, I'm doing that by creating/updating a customer's address. I was hoping for an alternative to that but I can't see one.
Ah my bad. I think I read your response incorrectly. So it seems like you're already doing that.

[kindred island]

eoghanobrien-checkout-shipping

My take is that when buying as a gift it'd be better to use a separate customer for it

[vital pike]

Yeah, I was afraid of that, what happens with billing in that case? The billing and credit card information would be shared across two customer objects?