The only country available is the United States

  • I love the idea of this plugin, it’s a much needed free plugin. Thank you! I’m just not clear on how it works and why there aren’t more Country/State options available to sell or not sell to. I’m in the United States and that is the only option available. I’m not able to select certain states either. My store sells to many countries, but only ships certain items within the United States, everything else is virtual. I need this plugin to restrict the purchase of the physical products to the United States only, so for that purpose it works though I can’t test it unless I change it to not sell to the United States and that does work.

    My main concern is that the plugin will allow purchases from countries other than the ones we have listed on the WooCommerce General Tab -> Sell to specific countries.

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  • I’m in the United States and that is the only option available.

    My store sells to many countries, but only ships certain items within the United States, everything else is virtual. I need this plugin to restrict the purchase of the physical products to the United States only

    I just downloaded this plugin and had the same issue. My shop is based in the United States and I want to sell physical products only to the USA, virtual products with prices to all countries EXCEPT those in the European Union because of VAT tax and finally, FREE virtual products to all countries. The only country available in the plugin was United States, but I found a fix!

    It appears that the only countries that appear in the list on the product page are the ones selected in Woocommerce > Settings > General > Sell to specific countries. Here’s what I found…

    1. Go to Woocommerce > Settings > General, and set Sell to specific countries to contain each country you want to sell products to.

    2. Then change the countries in Shipping location(s) to be “Ship to all countries you sell to”.

    3. Next, on each product page that you ONLY want to be sold to US customers, in Product data > General, set the Geographic availability to be “Selected countries only” and Selected countries to be United States (US).
    (I did this on all of my physical products that I wanted to sell only in the US).

    4. Then, on each product page that you want to be sold to certain countries, in Product data > General, set the Geographic availability to be “All countries countries only” and Selected countries to include each country.
    (I did this on all of my virtual products that I wanted to sell to countries outside of the EU).

    5. Finally, if you have products that you want to sell worldwide, go back to Woocommerce > Settings > General, and set Selling locations to be “Sell to all countries”. The edit each product page that you want to be sold worldwide, in Product data > General, set the Geographic availability to be “All countries”.
    (I did this on all of my virtual products that I wanted to sell worldwide).

    By doing Step 5 last, you can easily set specific countries on product pages without having to scroll through a list of ALL countries.

    Hope that helps!

    Thread Starter elizabeth

    (@greybird)

    Hello l_mason! Thank you for your detailed response! Unfortunately since it was over 3 months since I wrote the original post/question and it was for a client’s site I don’t currently remember how I resolved it but I will look into it and see if this method will be better than what it has now.

    I have a question: does the method you described require using the Product Country Restrictions plugin?

    Yes, it does require using the Product Country Restrictions plugin. Hopefully one day, these features will be native to WooCommerce!

    Thread Starter elizabeth

    (@greybird)

    OK! Thank you again!

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