Either populate ShipTo via AIM or remove it from email reciept

[apex2014]

We're a service company, so we do not sell shipable products . We're currently using AIM to do the initial charge and set up an ARB for our clients. The email reciept comes from Authorize but has both Billing address AND shipping. address info.. except the Shipping info is blank.

We are using AIM and I am not finding how to populate the shiiping info (which will ALWAYS BE THE SAME AS BILLING ADDRESS)  or better yet, remove shipping info from the email reciept

My code used for the inital charge, slightly modified from the AIM PHP sdk to include our order number.,,,

    $transaction = new AuthorizeNetAIM;
    $transaction->setSandbox(AUTHORIZENET_SANDBOX);
    $transaction->setFields(array(
        'amount' => $row['salescharged'] , 
        'card_num' => str_replace("-", "",$row['salescnumber']), 
        'exp_date' => $row['salesexpdate'] ,
	'first_name' => $nameparts[0] ,
        'last_name' => $nameparts[1] ,
        'address' => $row['salescaddress'] ,
        'city' => $row['salescccity'] ,
        'state' => $row['salesccstate'] ,
        'country' => $country ,
        'zip' => $row['salescczip'] ,
        'email' => $row['salesemail'] ,
        'card_code' => $row['salesvcnumb'],
		'cust_id' => $row['id']
        ));
}

Ideally, the API *SHOULD* have a way to flag a transaction as payment for a service, or virtual product and not include shipping info in the reciept ..  or at least a quick way to indicate the ship to address is the same as the billing address.

[Joy · Accepted solution]

Hi apex2014,

It is not possible to modify the format of our transaction receipt emails in the way that you are requesting. The shipping fields can be populated by simpling sending the same address into the ship to fields as what you are already sending for billing. The ship to fields are as follows:

ship_to_first_name
ship_to_last_name
ship_to_address
ship_to_city
ship_to_state
ship_to_zip
ship_to_country

Thanks,

Joy

[apex2014]

Thank you, I havent had the chance to test this yet, but can't imagaine it would not work as you describe.

Perhaps such an option should be considered for the future though, since so many ecommerce sites do not sell physical / shipable products.