Screen: ShopSite > Commerce Setup > States and Countries

States and Countries

This screen allows you to select which states and countries you will allow in the Shipping and Billing addresses for your customers, as well as how customers will select the state or country in the shipping and billing address forms.

States

State/Province
Select whether to have customers type in or select the destination state from a pull-down menu. If you are using the pull-down menu and will be shipping to countries that you have not added their state/provinces to the State/Province list (see below), check the Use javascript to switch pull down list to text field for countries without listed States/Provinces.
Note:

If you are using an integrated third-party service which requires specific state codes, ShopSite will always display the pull-down menu, regardless of your selection here.

State/Province List
Use this field to decide which states you will allow in shipping and billing address pull-down menus. The default list includes the U.S. states and Canadian provices. If your list does not include the country for United States and Canada please add it so it looks like this:
=United States;US
Alabama;AL
Alaska;AK
followed by the rest of the states
=Canada;CA
Alberta;AB
British Columbia;BC
followed by the rest of the provinces
By adding the country, when the user select their country, only the states or provinces for that country are displayed.

The name for each allowed state or province should be on a line by itself, followed by a semicolon (;) and the two-letter state or province code. For example:

California;CA
Colorado;CO

Items in the pull-down menu will be displayed in the same order as they appear in this list. The semicolon and state/province abbreviation will not be displayed in the pull-down menu, but will be submitted to integrated third-party services which require the two-letter state code.

You may also include informational lines by putting an n after the semicolon, for example:

Select a State;n

The ;n will not be displayed in the pull-down menu, but customers will not be allowed to checkout if one of these options is selected.

Note:

If you modify this list, you must make sure your selection options are compatible with the requirements of any third-party services which will receive this information.

Countries

Checkout Screen Countries
Select whether to have customers type in or select the destination country from a pull-down menu. You may want to check with your shipping provider or payment processor to know which countries are allowed, or if the cost of processing orders for certain countries is prohibitive.
Note:

If you are using an integrated third-party service which requires specific country codes, ShopSite will always display the pull-down menu, regardless of your selection here.

Default Selected Country
Select the country that you want at the top of the list as the default selection for customers if you are using a pull-down menu.
Country List
Select which countries you want to include in the shipping or billing pull-down menus. You can use the Clear All and Select All buttons to quickly select or clear all countries.
Use Check this box to include this country in the pull-down menu.
Country Name (Read Only) The name of the country. If you are using a third-party service, this or the appropriate ISO country code will be sent to the third-party service.
Displayed Name Enter the country name as it should appear in the country pull-down menu.
Free Ship Check this box if you want to allow free shipping to this country. Free shipping and Free Shipping Coupons will only be available for countries with this option selected. You may restrict free shipping within selected countries by excluding specific ZIP/Postal codes in the Free Shipping configuration on the Commerce Setup > Shipping screen.
Zip Code Tax Check this box if you want ShopSite to calculate Sales Tax by Zip Code for this country. The Zip Code will only be used to calculate sales tax for countries with this box checked if you have the Tax by Zip feature enabled.
Charge VAT/GST Check this box if you want ShopSite to calculate Value Added Tax (VAT/GST) for this country. ShopSite will only calculate VAT/GST for countries with this box checked if you have the VAT/GST feature enabled.
UPS (Read Only) If there is a green checkmark here, this country can be used for real-time UPS shipping quotes. If there is a red x here, real-time UPS shipping quotes are not available for this country.
FedEx (Read Only) If there is a green checkmark here, this country can be used for real-time FedEx shipping quotes. If there is a red x here, real-time FedEx shipping quotes are not available for this country.
USPS (Read Only) If there is a green checkmark here, this country can be used for real-time U.S. Postal Service shipping quotes. If there is a red x here, real-time USPS shipping quotes are not available for this country.
Canada Post (Read Only) If there is a green checkmark here, this country can be used for real-time shipping quotes in Canada Post. If there is a red x here, real-time shipping quotes in Canada Post are not available for this country.
Australia Post (Read Only) If there is a green checkmark here, this country can be used for real-time shipping quotes in Australia Post. If there is a red x here, real-time shipping quotes in Australia Post are not available for this country.

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Last updated: June 07, 2012
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