Recently, we have run into an issue with some Magento E-Commerce carts with regard to their shipping and billing addresses. The cart defaults to prompting the customer to enter a billing address and a shipping address. However, under most circumstances, the addresses match. I have updated my clients cart to default the shipping address to match the billing address. If a customer would like to separate the two, they have that option; although, most don’t utilize it. In this article, I explain the simple solution.

Here are the simple instructions to update your Magento Commerce website to default the shipping address to match the billing address:

I have compiled the sales tax for NY and FL in Magento. I have no problem passing it back out to the community. If you need this information, please post a reply and I can email it to you. (PS – Don’t put your email in the reply. When posting your reply, the site will ask for your email address. This should prevent bots from picking it up.) I’m trying to avoid consuming too much bandwidth with placing it as a download.

It’s taken me a few days to put this all together. I’m happy to put together another state or two as well if it’s of high enough demand. All I ask in return is that you visit my ad sponsor links as they help to compensate for my time. Other than that, it’s free!!

The format is set up for Magento 1.3.2.4. I can confirm the upload works in this version. Also, the format followed is the format provided by the Magento Developers in this post.