Ship Mode Update for PO BOX

[ForTheJim]

Here's an issue I am running into with Payment Request in regards to PO Boxes and Ship Modes.

We have 3 Standard Ship Modes that user can select from:
Overnight - $30
Express - $18
Standard - Free

We can calculate shipping modes based on State and update accordingly.

User in this case selects Standard Ship Mode.

For users with a PO Box as shipping address, we only offer one ship mode which is unique to PO Box.

Unique Shipping - $25

The change here would affect total cost of product with shipping and would need to notify user that ship mode has been updated to reflect PO Box address.

We have limited ship modes for users with PO BOX as shipping address. But, since addressLine is not exposed until user commits to payment, how would Payment Request handle this case?

Would we use the retry method and throw an error and advise user to select the updated ship mode?
https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/#retry-method

cc @rsolomakhin

[rsolomakhin]

Hi @ForTheJim, would your use case be address if the redacted shipping address had an 'isPostOfficeBox` boolean?

[ForTheJim]

Hi @rsolomakhin,

If there was a 'isPostOfficeBox' boolean, it would help to resolve this use case since that could then be passed server-side and correct ship mode could then be returned 👍

[marcoscaceres]

Marked as future candidate feature. We should probably discuss at the upcoming face-to-face (if not before).

@ForTheJim:

Would we use the retry method and throw an error and advise user to select the updated ship mode?

Yes, you would need to verify the address with some kind of address verification service, and then .retry() with the new shipping option.

[ianbjacobs]

This issue was raised in Payment Request, but closed once we removed addresses from that API. We anticipate adding addresses back to the specification and so are re-opening this issue proactively.

[ianbjacobs]

We added addresses back to the specification in the 7 August 2024 CRD