A Few Shipping Questions

[Bad Wolf]

Hello folks,

Well, stunning level of support I've had so far since I installed Zen Cart, site nearly out of the way and I can focus on developing my product designs for an August/September launch!

I've pretty much accepted the fact that, as I'm a student running this t-shirt business as a small endeavour, I'm going to limit myself to, initially, selling to the UK and will be using Paypal (standard or express, not decided yet) only for transactions.

My questions are...

1) What is the most straight forward way to enforce UK customers only during the checkout process? The site will state that it is UK only, but naturally someone will overlook this and try and place an order and I want to avoid having to accept the order, only to cancel it and contact them.

2) I'll be sending every package by Royal Mail Recorded Delivery, with the shipping cost 'free', hidden in the product sale price. Therefore I assume that I'll just need the free shipping module enabled, set to the UK zone I've set up?

3) If I wanted to sell to european destinations (would be nice), I ideally want a single shipping carrier; Royal Mail Air Mail suffice? (ok, bit off topic)

4) In relation to the above, is there a solution that can identify/allow EU orders (rejecting non-EU) and more importantly, calculate shipping costs to those destinations?

5) And finally...do those of you using Paypal still leave your Visa/Mastercard etc image on your site; or do you just have the Paypal logo?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Bad Wolf

[charmedbytina2]

Wow! Lots of questions here.

You can limit shipping to cetain zones only.

PayPal - I leave cc logos on, since I can accept cc payments with my "business" PayPal account.

Tina