Restricting shipping to a single country

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    • April 8, 2019 at 5:12 pm #56873
      unai
      Guest

      Hello there, hope you guys can help me out.

      Since I will be managing my platform on my own, I would like to restrict its reach to a single country – the UK – to make it easier to handle for me.

      By this I mean that I only want my sellers to be able to ship to the UK or within the UK. So overseas sellers are welcome to open a store on my website and sell their stuff here, but no one will be allowed (yet) to sell and ship things outside the UK.

      I have been trying to accomplish this but I really can’t figure out how to do it. If I create a Shipping Zone just for the UK then it “locks” the location of the vendors to the UK as well – so when I try to register as a vendor for testing purposes, it will only let me set the UK as my country/address. The same happens if I use the Shipping by Country option and I choose the UK.

      It just forces vendors to also be based in the UK.

      Is there any way to avoid this?

      Thanks!

    • April 10, 2019 at 12:11 pm #57110
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      Hi,

      Please go to wp-admin -> WooCommerce -> Setting -> Set this setting for selling and shipping locations – https://ibb.co/ydsbnLn

      Thank You

    • April 10, 2019 at 4:45 pm #57175
      Unai
      Guest

      Hello, thanks for answering.

      I already have the General settings of WooCommerce set to sell and ship only to specific countries (UK). But as I said, it won’t let vendors set their address anywhere else but in the UK.

      So, as it is now, a Vendor MUST enter a UK address if he or she wants to register on my website.

      I think this is because your plugin treats the Admin as a store, and what it sells are “memberships” that allow vendors to open their own stores in there.

      So, for WooCommerce, if you set the Ship and Sell to specific countries option to one country (UK for example), then that means that vendors have to be on that country since the “Admin store” treats their “memberships” as products that are being sold. So, if vendors are not in the country that your “Admin store” sells and ships to (determined by the WC General Options settings), then they cannot buy the product (the “membership” that allows them to open their store).

      Hope this makes sense. I might be completely wrong of course. Sorry of that’s the case.

      Thanks!

    • April 11, 2019 at 5:01 pm #57307
      WCFM Forum
      Member

      Hi,

      So, as it is now, a Vendor MUST enter a UK address if he or she wants to register on my website.

      – If you already have Country setting at WC Setting, then vendor will not able to select other countries than UK

      Also, vendors will restrict to setup shipping rule only for UK.

      I think this is because your plugin treats the Admin as a store, and what it sells are “memberships” that allow vendors to open their own stores in there.

      – NO. it does not consider Admin as Store. Why you think so?

      Thank You

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