Re: Removing Pull Down States?
 

thanks a bunch :)

Re: Removing Pull Down States?
 

Good info... Has anyone got a "Best Practice" ?
I too ship worldwide. There are 6 pages of countries, do I have to check "has states" to every one of them? I don't know which ones do/don't have states.

Re: Removing Pull Down States?
 

Perhaps not a "best Practice" but it seems to be a "good enough" one -
I have yet to have any significant difficulties shipping internationally (from the US) with States/Provinces* enabled only for the US, Canada and Australia.

I check/validate the majority of my international shipment addresses using Address Doctor (http://www.addressdoctor.com/lookup/default.aspx?lang=en) and/or a variety of Country-specific Postal service postcode validators:

Australia - http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes/
Canada - http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/advanced-e.asp
Great Britain - http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm
Germany - http://www.deutschepost.de (browsr speciic - check it out in FF 2.0)
Switzerland - http://www.swisspost.ch/en/index.htm

are my top five, but I've shipped to a majority of European countries (and some Asian ones as well) without a "state"

*Due to numerous Canadian customers, I change my language variable to that as well.

Hope that helps!

Re: Removing Pull Down States?
 

Looking though my dazzle of past international orders, I have found that Spain, and Japan also have city & states.

I just went though all the countries and added "has states" and changed my language to "State/Province" and marked it as a "not required" field for those that dont have "State/Province"

Re: Removing Pull Down States?
 

systems- where are you remivng the "requred" field? I know I saw that hec box somewhere but cannot find it now that I am looking for it.

More I think about it- your system seems best. Customers would know the local protocol on shipping and if their state/province is needed to get to them. Leaving this blank and not required gives all the option.

Re: Removing Pull Down States?
 

My only concern here is Google Checkout. I had terrible problems with Google Checkout constantly saying that I didn't ship to a customers address. I eventually resolved it by making sure all the States were set in the Destination Zones screen.

Now that I've deleted all the states, I'm nervous of what Google Checkout will do! It seems to be working atm, but I remain to be convinced.