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Old 03-30-2017, 05:57 PM
 
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Default Re: Divisions of United Kingdom in XC5

In the UK, we suggest using 'Counties' as a more understandable / recognisable term than 'Divisions' even though 'UK Counties' can itself, sometimes be confusing within the UK (see ISO page below) Don't confuse County with Country (Counties / Countries) when reading this.....

Way back in XC 5.1.* The UK 'Counties' default list in XC5 was hopelessly inaccurate. We made a point of this on here, especially as all the US States were by default, correct. Thanks to our exciting history in the UK there are quite a few things to factor in when using a list of 'UK Counties' for your own business operations when using XC5 and/or any XC5 plug-in shipping modules etc. In our setup and in every case, users MUST select a County (also referred to as Region or State if not UK) a Country and an Address Type from drop down lists in order to add an address to their address book / order. All other areas of the address entry box are free (i.e. not chosen from any drop down list). Countries that we don't regularly trade with are not enabled within XC5 via Store Setup / Countries...

Back to XC 5.1.* and instead of waiting for future XC5 updates, we re-worked all this section ourselves and built-in our own shipping experiences / business demands gained during previous XC4 days. We created some separate, new Countries (but all have UK in the title - see list) which suits our own setup. We also applied 'County level' enforcement for other Countries for export orders. In all cases we used the NUTS lists (EU) and many other reliable national data sources (Worldwide) as references / verification checks when creating the 'County or Region or State' data tables. Our UK setup is:

UK - Channel Islands (with 7 Counties)

UK - England (with 48 Counties)

UK - Isle Of Man (with (6 Counties)

UK - Northern Ireland (with 6 Counties)

UK - Scotland (with (32 Counties)

UK - Wales (with 22 Counties)

Yes we know they are not all actually 'Counties' e.g. Rushen in the Isle of Man is actually a 'Sheading' not a 'County' but we're using 'County' as a UK Default term - It's just easier that way! The ISO page (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB) mentioned in the last post proves that it's quite a complicated setup in the UK. Using an enforced County level drop down box as part of the address entry is maybe a little over-engineered for others, especially if they are not based in the UK, but it works perfectly for us.

XC5 shipping / VAT setups are different again, but both work well with our setup e.g. The Outer Hebrides in Scotland is a lot different than the centre of Glasgow for many reasons, as well as shipping routes / methods etc but this can easily be done by using the Zones function properly i.e. in detail. Zones / Taxation combinations etc can also be used for applying the correct level of VAT (e.g. The Channel Islands has different VAT rules than the rest of the UK).

There is now a specific UK(GB) version of XC5 available for download, which we haven't looked at to be fair, but only because we are very happy with our own setup because it suits our own business.

With XC5 you can either accept all the default data and go from there or, completely re-work this yourself (as we have done) or a mixture of both. It's good to have this choice / freedom and each store owner can customise things as they see fit.
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