I'm pretty sure that many webshops have issues with creating new shopper fields. If you create new shopper fields, these new fields are always displayed within the billing address, irrespective of whether these fields have anything to do with billing data or not, and there are no options to edit these fields according to the needs. Think of, for instance, a special but necessary field "Type of use" with radio buttons "Private" and "Business". The values of this field will be displayed in the billing address, even in the confirmation email, which is very annoying. A lot of additional fields may be necessary for registration, but these data have generally nothing to do with billing information. If you don't want these fields to be displayed, currently the only way to "solve" this problem is to hack into the corresponding file, and prevent the display in php.
One of the main problems is that Virtuemart just displays all shopper fields in a loop. The other big problem that the shopper field editor in the backend doesn't offer suitable options for editing new fields, for example, the user cannot create new sections for the fields in order to decide which shopper field belongs to which section. Practically, there is only one section: billing information, so all the new fields become part of this, which is nonsense.
Is there a chance to develop the shopper field editor in the near future?
is not true, we use field delimiter for own section and override in template for showing the right result.