Countries

Countries are objects which represent a country where this solution does business. A country can be selected as a billing country or shipping country during checkout, and for each country you can specify which payment methods and shipping methods should be available. It is also on the country that you define the default country VAT rate and define country-specific frontend address formats, if relevant.

The Countries-node provides access to our tool for creating and managing countries.

To add a new country to your solution:

• Click New country
• Select the country you want to add
• Fill in the relevant parameters
• Save

Most of the general settings are prefilled, but you should add a VAT Rate to apply the correct VAT to orders during checkout. For the more advanced parameters see below.

Frontend Address Formats

On each country you can define frontend address formats – formats which control how address fields are shown in frontend. You can customize both the address display format and the address edit format. The display format is meant to be used when displaying an address, and the edit format when using a form to submit an address from frontend. In frontend you can use the custom address formats where you have access to an Order ID – the typical scenario of course being in the Shopping Cart app.

Default Methods

The default methods section is used to select a default payment and shipping method for this country.

Regions

The Region section makes it possible to create regions for this country – this can be relevant on solutions which require the customer to supply a region during checkout, e.g. in order to use address validation in combination with a tax provider.