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Shipping Areas: set up geo conditions for shipping method and rates

Video: How to Set Up a Shipping Area in Calcurates


Overview

Shipping Area — a preset location where you ship or you don't ship your orders to. Can be configured as a preset condition using the following multiple GEO attributes: Country, State/Region, City, Postal Codes (Range or Mass), Address Line, Address Type (Commercial or Residential).

With Shipping Areas based on countries, postcodes, states / regions, address line and address residential status you can Geo condition your Shipping Methods and Rates set in Calcurates.

Shipping Areas can be used in:
  1. Shipping Options, Methods or Carrier Services as served Areas
  2. Shipping Segments as an attribute for conditioning
  3. Address Validation as Areas, for which you want to validate address (check address residential status)
Notes
Note, that Shipping Area itself does nothing if not used in Shipping Options, Segments or Address Validation.

Shipping Areas: Examples

  1. Postcode ranges
  2. Certain postcodes
  3. Postcodes start from "BT"
  4. Postcodes start from "20"
  5. US 48 Contiguous States
  6. US Distant States
  7. US APO/ FPO/DPO territories
  8. US P.O. Boxes
  9. UK Mainland
  10. Scottish Highlands
  11. British Islands
  12. EU countries
  13. Sydney Metropolitan Area

Shipping Areas: Popular Scenarios

Check some popular scenarios perfectly solved with Shipping Areas:
Idea
  1. Set up served Shipping Areas for shipping methods and rates
  2. Use Shipping Area as a condition for your Shipping Rule

Shipping Areas: Configuration Steps

Info
Step 1: Add / Edit Shipping Area
Step 2: Specify Area's conditions
Step 3: Apply Shipping Area(s)

Step 1: Add / Edit Shipping Area

Add a Shipping Area in the "Areas" section. Click "Add Shipping Area" yellow button.
Specify Area's name (required) and description (optional) in the "General" section. Both fields appear in your Shipping Areas grid.


Step 2: Specify Area's conditions

On step 2 you set a condition tree for your Shipping Area using multiple GEO attributes and operators:

Attribute
Available Operators
Additional Info
Country
IS ONE OF, IS NOT ONE OF
Multi-select
Region
IS ONE OF, IS NOT ONE OF
Country dependent, Multi-select
Postal code
IS ONE OF, IS NOT ONE OF, CONTAINS, DOES NOT CONTAIN, STARTS FROM, ENDS WITH
Country dependent, Mass and Range input types
City
IS ONE OF, IS NOT ONE OF
Country dependent, Multi-select
Address line 1
CONTAINS, DOES NOT CONTAIN, CONTAINS WORD, DOES NOT CONTAIN WORD, STARTS FROM, ENDS WITH
Country dependent
Address line 2
CONTAINS, DOES NOT CONTAIN, CONTAINS WORD, DOES NOT CONTAIN WORD, STARTS FROM, ENDS WITH
Country dependent
Address type
IS, IS NOT
Address dependent (commercial or residential)


Info
CONTAINS WORD / DOES NOT CONTAIN WORD. Matches the value as a whole word, ignoring letter case. A space, hyphen or punctuation mark ends a word. Letters, digits and the underscore do not. Example: "HCR" matches "123 HCR 456" and "HCR-BOX". It does not match "ARCHCREST" or "HCR2".
You may set multiple conditions for your Shipping Area and use AND / OR operators between them.




Step 3: Apply Shipping Area(s)

Now you can use your Area(s) in:
  1. Shipping Options, Methods or Carrier Services as served Areas
  2. Shipping Segments as an attribute for conditioning
  3. Address Validation as Areas, for which you want to validate address (check address residential status)

Shipping Areas: Settings

In the "Areas" section you may find the "Setting" yellow button.



  1. Ignore spaces, hyphens and dashes for postal codes. By default Calcurates doesn't ignore spaces, hyphens and dashes for postal codes it gets from the checkout. With this setting you may let it ignore them.
    1. Example: if ignored, then "A9 9AA" and "A99AA" postcodes are the same for Calcurates. Not the same if not ignored.