Fixed Magento Checkout : Set ‘Ship to This Address’ as Default

How often would you buy from an online shop and ship the goods to an address that is different from your billing address? Sometimes, I do use the card that is registered with my home address, but use my office address for delivery. This might not be the same case with about 80% of online shoppers.

Then, why does Magento eCommerce select the “Ship to different address” option as default!? Here is a way to fix it and make Magento to select “Ship to this address” by default.

Magento FIX :

Copy app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Block/Onepage/Billing.php to app/code/local/Mage/Checkout/Block/Onepage/Billing.php. This ensures that you do not end up messing with Magento’s core files.

Nagivate to the function

public function isUseBillingAddressForShipping()
{
if (($this->getQuote()->getIsVirtual()) || !$this->getQuote()->getShippingAddress()->getSameAsBilling())
{
return false;
}
return true;
}

Swap around the returns “false” and “true”

public function isUseBillingAddressForShipping()
{
if (($this->getQuote()->getIsVirtual()) || !$this->getQuote()->getShippingAddress()->getSameAsBilling())
{
return true;
}
return false;
}

That’s a good fix. Enjoy working with Magento eCommerce!