Can we use Paypal Express Checkout with “Ship to multiple address” option

Question

We are using Paypal express Checkout using onepage checkout option in Magento. Its working fine and now, I am trying to use the same inside "Ship to multiple address" option.

Based upon my research, I am not sure whether it is possible or not.

So, My question is - Can we use Paypal Express checkout in case of Multishipping option?

I tried to enable (by setting the below data member to True)

protected $_canUseForMultishipping      = false;

in Payment method model class which result in display of the payment method in the payment section but never redirected to Paypal window instead displayed error on clicking place order:

PayPal gateway has rejected request. Invalid token (#10410: Invalid token).

Any quick help would be highly appreciated, Thanks.

Answer 1

No. Magento's integration with PayPal's Express Checkout does not support multiple shipping addresses. Based on PayPal's documentation, Express Checkout seems like it supports multiple addresses (in the form of multiple authorizations), but Magento's integration doesn't utilize that functionality.

We can confirm this by looking at Mage_Paypal_Model_Express::authorize(), which calls Mage_Paypal_Model_Express::_placeOrder():

if ($order->getIsVirtual()) {
    $api->setAddress($order->getBillingAddress())->setSuppressShipping(true);
} else {
    $api->setAddress($order->getShippingAddress());
    $api->setBillingAddress($order->getBillingAddress());
}

Note how the payment method only provides a single shipping address to the API model (the API model then does the actual PayPal API call).