I need some help please.
I have a separate Shipping Zone ‘UK – Northern Ireland, Isle of Man & Isles of Scilly’. Regions = “United Kingdom (UK), BT*, IM*, TR21*, TR22*, TR23*, TR24*, TR25*”
This is first in my list of Zones.
Despite this set up, customers in Northern Ireland report that WooCommerce won’t find any valid shipping options when they check out. We get so few orders from Isle of Man & Isles of Scilly that I don’t know if this set up is working for anyone in the Shipping Zone.
Everything I’ve read in the Foruns here suggest that this should work fine, but it doesn’t. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong here?
Many thanks for your help.
]]>This isn’t a support request, but just wanted to put a step by step guide here for anyone who’s trying to add shipping zones for Northern Ireland, as I spent quite some time today trying different things and threads to get it working, and hopefully it’ll save at least one other person the headache! No need to edit functions etc this way.
So in my case, the website I’m working on ships to Ireland and Northern Ireland at one rate, and then UK & Rest of World at the other.
Just before I start, I also had Woocommerce Table Rate Shipping installed, as my friend was shipping items in 1’s or 2’s (ie 3 is 1×1 & 1×2), but should work fine without this.
Into Woocommerce / Settings / Shipping
I set up 3 zones, and then everything else in Locations not covered
Ireland – Region = Ireland
Northern Ireland – Region = UK, postcode = BT*
UK (excluding NI) – Region, UK, postcode (the following list which you can copy/paste)
PL*
PH*
PE*
PA*
OX*
OL*
NW*
NR*
NP*
NN*
NG*
NE*
N*
ML*
MK*
ME*
M*
LU*
LS*
LN*
LL*
LE*
LD*
LA*
L*
KY*
KW*
KT*
KA*
IV*
IP*
IG*
HX*
HU*
HS*
HR*
HP*
HG*
HD*
HA*
GU*
GL*
G*
FY*
FK*
EX*
EN*
EH*
EC*
E*
DY*
DT*
DN*
DL*
DH*
DG*
DE*
DD*
DA*
CW*
CV*
CT*
CR*
CO*
CM*
CH*
CF*
CB*
CA*
BS*
BR*
BN*
BL*
BH*
BD*
BB*
BA*
B*
AL*
AB*
PO*
PR*
RG*
RH*
RM*
S*
SA*
SE*
SG*
SK*
SL*
SM*
SN*
SO*
SP*
SR*
SS*
ST*
SW*
SY*
TA*
TD*
TF*
TN*
TQ*
TR*
TS*
TW*
UB*
W*
WA*
WC*
WD*
WF*
WN*
WR*
WS*
WV*
YO*
ZE*
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So now when you check out with a NI postcode, it’ll show the NI postage, whereas if you use any other UK postcode it’ll show the other rates you have set (btw the reference I got the list from via a bit of excel reworking is https://www.doogal.co.uk/UKPostcodes.php for credit)
This should also be easy to adapt if you’re trying to have different rates for England/Wales/Scotland as well, just get the first 2 letters of the relevant country’s postcode with a *, have that in one, and then dump everything else into the other.
I hope this helps someone!
]]>Is it possible to add the six counties of Northern Ireland to the county drop-down for Ireland? A lot of people living in Northern Ireland don’t like to list their country as the United Kingdom and therefore cannot add their correct county.
Also, there’s a funny little dance you have to do to change the county when you change the country e.g. when you change the country from Ireland to UK it still shows Irish counties unless you save in between – then you can make the change.
Thanks and Happy New Year,
éamonn
One quick question – we’re hoping to exclude free shipping based on a constituent part of the UK – Northern Ireland to be exact as it’s overseas. Is there a way to do this currently?
I noticed there is a ‘State Not Equal To’ option that works for US states, but no equivalent in there for the UK. Is this do-able?
Thanks.
]]>Just wondering if there are any other wordpress users in an around Northern Ireland, please feel free to get in touch.
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