Magento 1.9 – How to Limit Countries That Can Place an Order

magento-1.9

I have a site that would like to only allow the UK to buy and ship products. They would like to block all countries outside of the uk from purchasing anything from their multistore.

Best Answer

You can set this from system configuration.

For this from backend Go to System >> Configuration >> General

Here you have the Allow Countries dropdown. You can select allowed countries from here.

Also you can ask from your hosting provider to block website outside UK

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Allowed Countries Keeps Resetting to All in Magento 1.9

This should actually be fixed since 1.7.0.0 according to the Release Notes, but it seems it is not.

I ran into this issue once with product pages using the country of manufacture attribute.

The country dropdown is added in app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/onepage/billing.phtml and shipping.phtml with the <?php echo $this->getCountryHtmlSelect('billing') ?> and <?php echo $this->getCountryHtmlSelect('shipping') ?> method.

These methods refer to the getCountryHtmlSelect($type) method of Mage_Checkout_Block_Onepage_Abstract where the country options are gathered in getCountryOptions(). There you can see, that the cache-id $cacheId = 'DIRECTORY_COUNTRY_SELECT_STORE_' . Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode(); is set.

The country of manufacture attribute is loaded via Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Attribute_Source_Countryofmanufacture where in the getAllOptions() method the same cache-id $cacheKey = 'DIRECTORY_COUNTRY_SELECT_STORE_' . Mage::app()->getStore()->getCode(); is used.

This means: If you load a product page first where the country of manufacture is used, all the country options are available as there is no restriction. Same applies if you refresh the cache.

Magento – Exclude countries from cross border trade

You can modify the function Mage_Tax_Helper_Data::isCrossBorderTradeEnabled($store = null) (copy class to local code pool)

add this code before the return statement to disable Cross Border Trade for countries without VAT.

$address = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getShippingAddress();

if ($address->getTaxAmount() == 0) {

      return false;
}

Instead you can also compare the country_id against certain countries. (Notice: country_id is only available when the customer/guest has entered an address)

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