Countries

For each country you do business with, you must create a corresponding country on your solution.

You can then select the country as the default country on the Ecommerce settings of a website.

Countries in Dynamicweb Ecommerce are used to:

• Control which countries  and regions can be selected as billing and delivery countries
• Anchor shipping methods and payment methods to a particular country – and preselecting default shipping and billing methods
• Setting the system VAT rate

To add a new country to your solution:

• Go to Settings > Ecommerce > Internationalization > Countries
• Click New Country in the toolbar to open the country selector and add a country (Figure 1.1)

Figure 1.1 Adding a new country to your solution

A new country is created with the basic information under Settings already filled out, except the system VAT rate.

Under Frontend address format (Figure 1.2), you can edit the display and edit format of addresses for this country.

Figure 1.2 Define the frontend address format

Under Default methods (Figure 1.3), you can select a default payment method and shipping method for the country.

They will be preselected in the shopping cart when the user checks out in the relevant country-context.

If none are available for selection, you need to create them and select them for the country (or All Countries). Switch between language contexts to access the methods created under a non-default language.

Under Region/States (Figure 1.3), you can add regions/states to the country.

This allows your users to select states and regions, in addition to the country, when specifying their delivery and billing addresses during checkout – and is also used for e.g. address validation services and the Avalara AvaTax provider when calculating taxes.

Figure 1.3 Selecting the default payment & shipping methods for a country - don't forget to switch to the appropriate language context

Under Region/States (Figure 2.1), you can add regions/states to the country.

This allows your users to select states and regions, in addition to the country, when specifying their delivery and billing addresses during checkout – and is also used for e.g. address validation services and the Avalara AvaTax provider when calculating taxes.

Figure 2.1 Creating regions or states for a country

Dynamicweb supports a number of query string operations for manipulating the internationalization settings:

These are the database tables related to internationaliation in Dynamicweb: