How do I allow Registration & Check Out in only 1 country?

[joomoo79]

Hi,

Silly question... I want to sell only in the US... Logically enough, I don't want customers to have a pulldown menu to select their country when they regsiter a new account.

Is there a way to do that from the admin panel and I missed it?
If not, how can I safely achieve that?

Thanks!

[stevesh]

If you'll never want to sell outside the US, the easiest way is probably to back up your database, then run this in Admin - Tools - Install SQL Patches :

DELETE from countries WHERE countries_iso_code_3 NOT IN('USA');

That will remove all countries except USA. Then go to Admin - Locations/Taxes - Zones and manually remove Alaska and Hawaii (and some others like Puerto Rico), depending if you want to sell there.

You could also set up a US-only shipping zone, but I don't think that will stop people from outside the US from creating accounts.

[Xbox Memberships]

same here but i only want to sell to the uk
whats the country code for the uk?

[stevesh]

It's GBR.

[Xbox Memberships]

so id enter....

DELETE from countries WHERE countries_iso_code_3 NOT IN('GBR');

Where will i find the file to backup?