X-Cart:Geographical Settings

Geographical settings in X-Cart

Adjustment of your store's geographical settings includes defining countries, states, counties and destination zones.

Countries, states and counties are countries, states and counties from which you allow customer registrations and to which your store's products can be sold and shipped. Names of your store's active countries, states and counties appear in drop-down boxes on all the pages where addresses can be entered ('Profile details' form, General settings->General options section, General settings->Company options section) so that store users can use them as address components when entering addresses. They are also used to define destination zones.

Destination zones are unities consisting of territories to which your products can be sold and shipped, and for which shipping and tax rates are the same. Defining the store's destination zones correctly is very important, because destination zones serve as a basis for adjusting shipping charges and tax rates for different locations.

Roles in geographical settings management

If you are an X-Cart GOLD administrator/provider:

• You can manage countries (Study the section X-Cart:Countries):
  • define what countries need to appear in 'Country' drop-down boxes in form sections intended for entering addresses;
  • define what countries have states (required for JavaScript state and county selector);
  • edit names of countries;
  • define country names in all the languages used by your store.

• You can manage states (See the section X-Cart:States):
  • define names and codes for the states that need to appear in 'State' drop-down boxes in form sections intended for entering addresses;
  • edit state names and codes;
  • delete states.

• You can create and manage counties (See the section X-Cart:Counties):
  • enable usage of counties in your store;
  • define which states have counties;
  • define names for the counties that need to appear in 'County' drop-down boxes in form sections intended for entering addresses;
  • edit names of counties;
  • delete counties.

• You can define and manage destination zones (Check out the section X-Cart:Destination zones).

If you are an X-Cart PRO administrator:

• You can manage countries (Study the section X-Cart:Countries):
  • define what countries need to appear in 'Country' drop-down menus on all the forms used to specify billing/shipping addresses;
  • define what countries have states (required for JavaScript state and county selector);
  • edit names of countries;
  • define country names in all the languages used by your store.

• You can manage states (See the section X-Cart:States):
  • define names and codes for the states that need to appear in 'State' drop-down menus on all billing/shipping address forms;
  • edit state names and codes;
  • delete states.

• You can create and manage counties (See the section X-Cart:Counties):
  • enable usage of counties in your store;
  • define which states have counties;
  • define names for the counties that need to appear in 'County' drop-down menus on all billing/shipping address forms;
  • edit names of counties;
  • delete counties.

If you are an X-Cart PRO provider:

• You can define destination zones and manage your own destination zones (Check out the section X-Cart:Destination zones). You cannot manage destination zones created by other providers.