Excluding certain states

[grapegeek]

I think this shopping cart is very cool for small business, especially for those of us without a lot of different products to sell. One suggestion, I would like to be able to exclude shipping to certain states. It can't be that hard to program this into the shopping cart, but I'm involved in an industry (wine) where I'm not allowed to ship to certain states. I am going to clearly state that up front on my website, and if an order comes through from a state that I can't ship to, I'm going to have to refund money. Any help out there?

[E-junkie_Chef]

Thanks :)



In the shipping rules, just setup a rule for your state (remove all other rules). That will give buyers a shipping error for all other shipping destinations and won't let them make the purchase.

[grapegeek]

I thought of something like that, but thanks for pointing me the way...

[tvsmvp]

E-junkieChef,



Can you be more specific about how to set up a rule to give "buyers a shipping error for all other shipping destinations and won't let them make the purchase"? Should I simply jack up the "minimum items in cart" to something absurdly high? Or is there something I'm missing? Do I need to set "select your shipping method" to something in particular?

[grapegeek]

That's what I ended up doing was jacking up the quantity to 9999 for all the states I can't ship to. I modified the pop up box so that it tells you the states I can ship to so if they are wondering why their order isn't going through.

[tvsmvp]

Thanks for the help grapegeek -



Note: I wanted to see how you (personally) present that online so took a quick trip to your site. I see that you have your restrictions listed to the left of the page - but saw only this when I added something to the cart:



"You must be 21 to purchase. We ship UPS Ground. You do not need a Paypal or Google account to order. Minimum order is 3 bottles." I didn't see any other caveat there in the pop up, fyi. I tried a zipcode for Alabama (a state not listed on your "we ship to these states" listing) and did get a balk - but no warning as to why.



I was thinking about forbidding sales within my state to get around having to send the state twenty-nine cents in sales tax quarterly.

[tvsmvp]

And - how did you edit that window? I can't find anything on the site about how to do that. Does it have to be a pop up vs a new window? (I don't use the popup if it makes a difference.)

[grapegeek]

You have to customize the shopping cart. It's fairly easy once you figure it out.



Here is a snippet of my code:



function EJEJC_lc(th) { return false; }

function EJEJC_config() {

EJEJC_POSTCALL=true;

}

function EJEJC_shown() {

jQuery("#tdPmnt").attr("innerHTML",

"You must be 21 to purchase. We ship UPS Ground. You do not need a Paypal or Google account to order. Minimum order is 3 bottles.");

}