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Hi there... I'm new to this whole EJunkie thing... and so far I really like it.

I'm in the process of setting up my website, and I was wondering if there was a way to block certain countries from purchasing products. I offer a service which requires phone calls to my clients, and I only call in the United States and Canada.

I know I can put on my site that we only accept United States and Canadian orders, but most of the time people don't read or "see" that. And because I don't really ask for an address (no shipping) there is no real way to know they are from a different country until they are already in my system and they give me their phone number.

I just thought I would ask on here to see if anyone knew if you could block or just allow payments from certain countries.

Thank you for your help.
Kris

What you would do is go to Seller Admin>Edit E-junkie Cart Shipping Settings. On the first page, enter in your Shipping Origin information and in the list of Shipping Destinations choose just Canada and the US.

After that you will need to setup each product for shipping/buyer's address. Go to Seller Admin>View/Edit/Delete Product, select a product and click Edit. On the first page enable Shipping/Buyer's Address and then click Next until you can Submit the changes. You will then need to repeat these steps for your other products. At no point do you need to setup shipping charges.

Your buyers will not get charged extra and you can make sure that all your buyers are from the US and Canada.

You can also check with your payment processor and see if they have a way to make sure there are no sale outside of the US and Canada.

Hi there,

I was wondering if you or PAYPAL can limit the sales for all my products to buyers from US,Canada,NZ,AU and UK. I was actually thinking about a list of allowed countries that is managed globally for my E-Junkie or Paypal account.

If you use our shipping/buyer's address option you can setup to only sale to buyers from specific countries. To set this up go to Seller Admin>View/Edit/Delete Product, select a product and click Edit. On the first page check the box for Shipping/Buyer's Address and then click Next until you can Submit the changes. you will want to do this for all of your products.

Next go to Seller Admin>Edit E-junkie Cart Shipping Settings. On the left side of the page you can select the countries you want to allow buyers from.

This is not really helpful. I tried it out and all this does is add a dropdown box with allowed countries and zip code. Because I sell downloads, all they have to do is choose a country, enter any zip code and they can still checkout with paypal. Not really helpful and a hazzle for those in allowed countries.

Your best bet is set your .htaccess file to allow visitors from only the countries in which you wish to do business.

Without making the buyer select a country manually, there's really no reliable way to determine what country they're in, so no way to automatically block buyers according to their country. Landro's suggestion would probably rely on GeoIP lookups, which can do a pretty good job of guessing a user's location from their IP, but even that isn't very reliable or consistently accurate.

What I am doing now is trying the solution E-Junkie Ninja suggested. I will keep monitoring things. Most people seem to enter valid information and a real address. Positive side effect is that the newsletter list gets more real emails.