Same as shipping logic

Prerequisites

The Recipient and Sender are linked to a User, if any. A user may have more than one Recipient / Sender. Why this is important? In the checkout process there are two scenarios:

1. Guest checkout
2. Logged-in checkout

1. Guest checkout

In this scenario when editing the Recipient / Sender details they are always overwritten. In other words, a Guest checkout will have one Recipient and one Sender object. These Recipient and Sender are not linked to a User.

2. Logged-in checkout

In this scenario the customer has two options: Add a new address and List previously saved addresses.

• With Add a new address a new Recipient / Sender is created in db and linked to the Checkout.
• When picking a previously saved address a different Recipient / Sender is linked to the Checkout.

The "Same As Shipping" workflow

When choosing the Billing Address (Sender) the Customer has 2 options:

• Same as shipping address
• Add new billing address

Same as shipping address

With this no Sender is created in db, but a flag is marked. As a result upon checkout completion a Sender will be created and attached to the Order.

NOTE: Recipient fields must match Sender's. Results that Recipient must have Company and Company VAT fields.

Add new billing address

In this case the same_as_shipping flag is set to false (0) and a new Sender is created and added to the Checkout.