Regions
Page: Settings >> Country Settings >> Regions
Regions are the foundation for area-specific delivery and payment methods. You can use them to define which delivery and payment methods are available to your customers in various countries.
The regions are based on countries that you set under
Settings >>
Country Settings >>
Countries. For more on this, see
Countries,
above. These countries can be assigned to regions. During the order process, the country from the delivery and invoice address is checked for assignment to a region.
The table lists all the regions already created. To open the Details for a region, click its ID.
To create a new region, enter the name of the region in the entry field in the last row. Save your entries by clicking
Save. Assign the respective countries to the region details. For more information, see
Regions - Details - General,
below.
To delete a region, select the corresponding table entry and click Delete.
To assign a delivery or payment method to a specific region, do the following:
- Add the country to the country list for the region in Settings >> Country settings >> Countries. For more on this, see Countries, oben.
- Create a new region.
- Open the delivery or payment method and select the desired region from the Allow usage for following addresses drop-down menu. Save your entries by clicking Save.
Note the following when using regions:
- A new delivery or payment method is available in all countries of the shop by default.
- If no countries are assigned to a region, they cannot be entered for a delivery or payment method.
- If all countries for a region are deleted, the associated delivery and payment methods apply to all countries of the shop.
- The customer is notified if he changes the country of the delivery or invoice address and the delivery or payment method that was previously selected is no longer available.
- PayPal Express and Google Checkout cannot be limited to a region because the invoice address is not known. These payment methods therefore do not require the settings described in the administration. The delivery methods that are assigned to these payment methods must support the countries that can be selected as delivery countries in the payment system.
- Using regions, you can define various prices for different delivery areas:
For example, you can have a different price for delivery via UPS in Germany than delivery via UPS shipping outside of the EU. For this purpose, create two regions, Germany and Non-EU. Then create two delivery methods: UPS Germany and UPS Non-EU. Assign the delivery methods to the corresponding regions.
- The regions should be named so that the customer can immediately see which regions a method applies to.
- Countries used for customer registration must be included in at least one region. Customers must not be able to select an invoice or delivery country which is not assigned to a region.
Regions - Details - General
The name of the region can be edited in the ID field.
The table lists all the countries that you have assigned in Settings >> Country settings >> Countries.
All countries that are assigned to the region are shown in bold and their checkbox is selected.
To assign a country to a region, select the corresponding checkbox.
To remove the assignment of a country to a region, remove the selection in the corresponding checkbox.
Save your entries by clicking Save.
To delete the entire region, click Delete.