title: Paypal: Billing & Shipping addresses in different countries?
body: <p>I think these are pretty close to being non-coding question, but it has everything to do with my current efforts to implement express checkout using paypal NVP API and X.com is absolutely garbage compared to stackoverflow.</p>
  
  <p>So here's what I know, followed by some questions:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>If you are a USA paypal user (which means - you have a USA Billing address), you can only set a shipping address to USA. Even if the website tries to force an international address via NVP during "SetExpressCheckout", it will ignore it and use a USA address within the users paypal account. If the user wants to manually put in a non-USA address, he can't - it's stuck to USA only.</p></li>
  <li><p>If you are NOT a USA paypal user (i tested with germany &amp; canada), you can have your shipping and billing be in 2 different countries. Instead of being locked in, there is a dropdown field allowing you to select a different country.</p></li>
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  <p>Questions:</p>
  
  <p>1) Why is this for USA... but not for places like germany and cananda (what's the politics/laws/paypalpolicies)?</p>
  
  <p>2) Does this mean that germany &amp; canada is less protected by paypal than USA?  I'm assuming the tigher requirements must mean that paypal has "safer" policies in the USA and therefore better protection?</p>
  
  <p>3) My store is an international gift store, so the shipping &amp; billing being in different countries happens 100% of the time. Can I turn off shipping addresses in paypal by making it a digital purchase, and when I do, am i still using paypal safely?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>