My company only ships to a few countries but we would like to allow billing addresses from additional countries we do not ship to. How can I change the countries available in the dropdowns for shipping and billing addresses independently?
Magento – Ship to certain countries but allow any country in billing address
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Go to \app\design\frontend\default\Your_Theme\template\checkout\onepage\shipping.phtml.
Search for the keyword "country". You will be able to locate the code for country option in shipping address. Echo the line
<?php echo $this->getCountryHtmlSelect('shipping') ?>
Customize the option as follows. Here i'm just trying to give you an example with shipping to only one country as US. You can get the country code in magento and customize it the way you want.
Hope this helps you.
This can be configured in the Admin Panel by going to System->Configuration Page
- Click on Shipping Methods tab under Sales
- Based on your allowed/configured Shipping methods, limit the countries.
- Click on Save Config
- Click on Payment Methods tab under Sales
- Based on the payment method, Payment from Specific Countries can limit the list of countries allowed to bill.
Best Answer
It is not possible by default to separate visible countries for delivery from a billing address. But it is possible for Magento to set specific shipping method restrictions. It means that if a person chooses a country where no shipping is allowed, he'll see an error message, that no shipping methods available at the moment.
That might be not something you expect your clients to experience, but that is the easiest way to restrict delivery, without creating customizations to address templates.
Also, you need to consider, that Magento has a very handy address book, and address from it is used for both shipping and billing sections, so even changing templates is not enough. In this case, I would stick to out of the box solution unless you have high bounce rate for shipping method step.