willybfriendly - 9:20 pm on Dec 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

Off topic, but since you are building a checkout process...

For me (and I suspect I am far from alone) it is imperative that any e-commerce site I use allows for shipping to other than the billing address and allows for distinct addresses based on shipping method.

Why? We live in a rural area with no USPS delivery. Our PO Box is actually in a different town than our physical address (about 10 miles away). If there is a comment box on the order page I can specify, "No mail delivery at physical address. If by US Postal ship to PO Box. UPS, FedEx, etc. ship to physical address."

Lack of this functionality has cost a lot of vendors sales in my case. It took me exactly twice trying to track down a package to give up on even trying to consummate a purchase that doesn't allow for this.

Even so (like Christmas this year) it sometimes gets screwed up...