Hello,

I apologize that my question may not be strictly be about CB Subs, but I'm thinking you may readily know the answer through all the work you all have done on payment gateways.

I want to collect website user names and street addresses on a subscription site, and would like to use subscription payment to verify that that the user is actually who they say they are - that is, I'd like to use the address verification that the payment gateway does with a credit card company to verify that a person with the registered name receives a credit card bill at the registered address.

I was planning to use Paypal Payments Standard, but it doesn't seem to return any billing information in PDT or IPN notifications. I tried doing an end run by requiring a shipping address, but can't require that the shipping address and billing address be the same. I can send the invoice address from CB Subs, and have a default on Paypal that shipping and billing addresses are the same, but there's nothing preventing the user from editing the shipping address at Paypal, and that's all I get back in IPN/PDT (just to be clear - there are actually no physical products to be shipped, I just thought of possibly using the shipping address this way since it's available in IPN and PDT notifications).

Do you know of a way to get billing name and address returned by Paypal, or if they're readily available in notifications provided through another payment gateway?

Thanks very much.

Thank you Kyle. I will try to address with payment gateways directly, starting with Paypal.

I'd also like to follow up and ask about your comment that name and address verification wouldn't "prove identity." I realize this is, strictly, true, but my thought was that it would prove identity with the limited exception that a registered user might use someone else's credit card, either with permission (i.e., parent's card, spouse's card) or due to identity theft or other fraud. Is that what you meant, or did you have something else in mind?

Thanks again.