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Limiting country selection

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24 Jan 2011, 5:21 AM
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Limiting country selection

Hi all, I just started an online store and since my business is still new I would like to ship my products to a certain countries only (ie. US and Canada) because I am more familiar with the shipping cost to those countries...

Could someone please tell me how I could edit the list of countries shown from the drop down menu at the customer sign-up page?

Thanks x 1,000,000 in advance!!! :smile:

24 Jan 2011, 5:54 AM
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Re: Limiting country selection

Make a backup of the database tables countries and zones

Then in the admin delete all but what you want

Save the backups if you later want to add any - you can restore them

24 Jan 2011, 6:08 AM
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Re: Limiting country selection

Could you please tell me where the file is located in the server? (Sorry this is my first time learning this e-commerce thing...) Thanks again!

24 Jan 2011, 6:12 AM
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Re: Limiting country selection

It is not in a file
It is in the database for your shop

Use your host provided phpmyadmin to access it

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=103

24 Jan 2011, 2:57 PM
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Re: Limiting country selection

Or, instead of deleting countries, you could build a Zone Definition that includes only the Countries where you ship and add that to your shipping modules ...

This allows Grandma in the UK to send little Tiny Tim, last reported living in Canada, to buy him a new crutch ... :smile:

NOTE: You can always add to the text on the create account where you ship ...

28 Jan 2011, 3:08 AM
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Re: Limiting country selection

Thx guys! I'll give that a try, appreciated!!:smile: