Re: [w3c/payment-request] A distinct invoice address should be supported (#550)

OK, thanks for that detailed information.

Clearly, I have missed a lot of prior discussion. But it seems to me that the billing address logically is not a property of the payment method. A billing address is a property of any purchase and be it only for tax reasons. It helps you prove to the tax office that the purchase was indeed made in the name of your business and was not some private purchase repurposed for tax evasion.

So regardless of whether this is a CC payment, a wire transfer (very common in Germany), cash by mail, or even a cryptocurrency payment, there must be a billing address.

You state that this might become a v2 feature... OK, but it will be hard to find a use case for this standard if this is missing. In all the online purchases that I made and that I recall the website always let me pick a separate address. This seems to be important (it was to me many times).

On the one hand you can query a separate address from the user outside of the browser provided UI. On the other hand that's confusing to the user and might give them anxiety that they will not be able to pick a separate address at all. Not good for conversion rates. The user might just leave and order elsewhere.


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