Hi members,
It would helpful and great, if some one tell me how to modify Abantecart to display Shipping address form first on Top in the Guest Checkout_Step 1 page. If Billing address is different from shipping address, then the radio button click must show the billing form fields. This is opposite of  Abantecart present default checkout page_Step_1. Because many customers may prefer first to fill up shipping address and then select if billing address is same or not. I think the conversion rate in this setup would be good for me.

For developers, giving concrete solution for this must be a cakewalk. I am eagerly awaiting your responses.

Thanks
AVS   

If you review development manuals AbanteCart is based on MVC (model/view/controller)

Thank you very much for explaining with how to do it. I understand a little on the flow of this related topic. Only part I will be stuck up with is to do validation code to compare both fields. Any help on this would be great. Thanks
AVS

Hi All
 Please tell me how to add Confirm Email Field in Guest Checkout _Step_1 page.  Confirm Email field and Email Field must match, If not throw error to the user. As many are aware of, this kind of matching field elements is most commonly used in all types of forms on all over the Internet. In Abantecart, there is no such built in form field for it. In my experience, I have noticed several people make mistakes while typing email addresses in forms in a hurry or due to some other reason. To avoid typo errors, this Confirm Email field in checkout page_ Step_I is important. This will avoid risks of sending auto response email landing in to wrong email address with personal details of a user.

I searched in this forum about this topic but could not find anything related to this issue.

I am a layman and so someone please give me all steps and code to be included to achieve it. In case if database tables also have to be altered, please tell me how to do it. I don't want to screw-down or mess with database. Hence, please guide me with each and every steps involved in it to achieve this. OR, if any other extension is already available for this, please let me know.
I request developers and others with programing knowledge to give me a solution. I hope this would hugely be useful not only for me but also for all Abantecart users/store owners.

Thanks
AVS 

Hi.
If you disable Country in admin but it is still available for selection when new address entered you need to do next steps:
1. Clear AbanteCart cache
2. Clear browser cache
3. try again

For the Locations. Open you shipping method in admin there will be dropdown to select in what Location shipping will work. Default value is 'All Location', please select yours

Thank you Basara for your tips. Your solution to my issue works partially. I request you to  kindly help me with these points. Please see these points below:
1. The shipping method settings in admin has to be Free Shipping method for location restriction to work. I selected that to test it. It works in such a way that, if user selects a restricted  country in the drop down, user sees an error that "Shipping Option is not available. Please Contact store owner".
2.  This is not working if Flat rate Shipping extension method is enabled. This extension does not have country specific restriction.
3. I need to show shipping rate in the Top Cart Box as well as view cart page etc.... These Two Extensions cannot be ON simultaneously.  Either of these will only work at a time. So, If  I enable in admin. default Free shipping extension, then Shipping rate is showing '0' in cart despite product settings has fixed rate price set to ON and amount saved in admin.
4. Also biggest drawback is that if Countries are disabled in Admin, it is disabling globally and won't  show in drop-down for billing section. It would be great if,  Billing section countries and Shipping section countries drop down is separately controlled and independently configured.
 All these things put together, I needed better clear solution so that, the following are needed to be done in this way as below:

A. Restrict and not show those restricted countries in drop down  for shipping and allow/show all countries for billing in the drop-down instead of disabling it globally in checkout  Step 1 page.
B. Instead of location settings in Free shipping extension alone, "Default Flat rate Shipping Extension must include Country/Location settings.
Please let me know any other method or coding to acheive this.

Awaiting your reply and thanks
AVS 

Hi all
Please do help me resolve this. For developers, giving concrete solution for this must be a cakewalk. I am awaiting for your response.
Thanks
AVS 

Thank you maxter.
Your reply to my query is near to resolve the issue, but I think it needs further tuning. Because, just moving the section alone  in tpl file may not serve the purpose, as the radio button which not clicked will auto  populate the guest details in the shipping field. In the invoice page also the details entered by the user has to be reversed. But if we move the the section alone to top it may not work as we needed. Kindly guide me exactly how to achieve it.

Update: I tried moving the shipping section in tpl file to the top as you said. But still the checkout page shows billing address field in the top, despite clearing cache in admin panel and browser. I request all to help me regarding this.
Thanks
AVS 

Please tell me how to allow Billing address with all countries in the world but for Shipping address, limit or restrict to one or two counties?
 When I do location and zone settings by switching off certain countries, billing and shipping drop down both are not showing the countries  I switched off. I need to show all countries in Billing drop down but disable other counties in shipping drop-down. This is because a user in any part of the world may order a product that has to be delivered somewhere else...

One may question, what if a user selects Billing and shipping address a same?
In this situation, on the top of it clear instruction alert  to user must be displayed if he selects any other country in the first place to urge him to select allowed country in the shipping drop-down. This is to ensure minimizing confusion and avoiding cancelling order later on and refund processes etc.. and  nip it in beginning itself. I request knowledgeable members to help me regarding this issue.