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The "Fees" section enables you to see the shipping fee for each of the carriers added to your store. Once the ranges are determined and allotted to a carrier, you can define the shipping and handling for each range. Go to the first page of the "Shipping" tab, and fill out the table found at the bottom of the page. Here we have taken as an example the bill according to the total weight of the order.
Carriers
You must have carriers added to your store – that is, a clear indicator of who will deliver the product. It might be just yourself or your shop (for instance if you are selling downloadable products, or work locally), but as soon as you are actually sending packages using stamps and a 3rd-party delivery service integrated with PrestaShop, or FedEx, UPS and such, then you must have their details added to your store's database. This will enable you and your customers to better choose which carrier to use, based on their ranges, fees and delivery dates.
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Here is an example of out-of-range behavior: Let's say you have set up a weight range from 0 to 10 lbs. Your customer wants to place an order that is 15 lbs., and no behavior has been configured for this weight. By choosing "Apply the cost of the highest defined range", PrestaShop will apply the price conditions that you have set up for orders from 5-10 lbs. If you choose "Deactivate the carrier", then this carrier will not be offered to the customer in this case.
States
By "States", PrestaShop calls first-level administrative divisions of a country. In the United-States, they are called states; in Italy, it's regioni (singular: regione); in France, it's régions (regions); in the United-Kingdom, it's regions. By default, PrestaShop provides you with a set of states: the 50 US states, the 13 Canadian provinces and territories, 24 Argentinian provincias, and 110 Italian province (singular: provincia).
Having states properly defined in your database helps better represent the delivery possibilities of your carriers. It is therefore important to enter all of a given country's administrative divisions if they are important to your carriers. You can find a list of such divisions on this Wikipedia page.
Note: the PrestaShop address form currently only lists states are available for the customer to choose. Therefore, make sure to use a sensible list when adding content to your states list. That is the reason why, for instance, the list contains Italian province rather than regioni.
Let's create a new state. Click "Add New" to get to the creation form.
- Enter the name of the state.
- Enter its ISO-3166-2 code:
- Go to this Wikipedia page
- Click the state's country two-letter code (in the "Entry" column of the main table),
- On that page, find the state's code (it should be in a list on the page, or in the text for the smallest countries),
- If there is one, remove the country's prefix in order to keep the code under 4 characters. For instance, the full ISO 3166-2 for Devon, in the United Kingdom, is "GB-DEV". Simply use "DEV" as the state's ISO code – it already is attached to the country using PrestaShop's "Country" drop-down menu (see next step).
- Indicate its country using the drop-down menu.
- Indicate its geographical zone using the drop down menu.
- Choose its status.
- Save.
Country
Countries
Country
PrestaShop must know all existing countries in order for customers to clearly indicate their own.
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- Enter the name of the country that you would like to add.
- Enter its ISO-3166 code, which you can found on the official ISO page.
- Enter its international call code, which you can found on this Wikipedia page.
- Indicate its default currency. You can use your shop's default currency (as set in the Payments > Currencies sub-tab), or one of the other default currencies. Remember that if needed, you can add a new currency to your shop using that sub-tab.
- Indicate its zone, the world's subregion to which this country is attached. If necessary, you can add new zones using the Shipping > Zones sub-tab.
- Indicate whether a user signing up with the address must give a zip code or not.
- You may also give more detail on the format of the postal code (or zip code). If you don't put anything, PrestaShop won't verify the validity of the zip code when given a new address for this country.
- Use the following codes for the postal code: "L" for a letter, "N" for a number and "C" for the country's ISO code (the one which you entered in the ISO field above).
- You can rely on this Wikipedia page if you do not know the postal code format. Make sure you do NOT copy/paste the notation from Wikipedia, but to adapt it! For instance, Wikipedia indicates "AAA 9999*" for Malta, so the notation for PrestaShop becomes "LLL NNNN" (without the final *).
- Give details about the address layout. You can click on the various helper links on the side of the text-field in order to add more fields. In live usage, they are automatically replaced by PrestaShop with the data from the customer's account.
- Enabled or disabled it. A disabled country will not be offered as an option when your customers want to register and create an account.
- Indicate if it contains "states". This adds a new field to the PrestaShop address form. Note that "states" can be regions, provinces, departments... anything that makes sense to that country's postal service.
- Indicate if the country needs a Tax Identification Number, and if its tax label should be displayed or not.
- Save: you're done creating a country!
States
By "States", PrestaShop calls first-level administrative divisions of a country. In the United-States, they are called states; in Italy, it's regioni (singular: regione); in France, it's régions (regions); in the United-Kingdom, it's regions. By default, PrestaShop provides you with a set of states: the 50 US states, the 13 Canadian provinces and territories, 24 Argentinian provincias, and 110 Italian province (singular: provincia).
Having states properly defined in your database helps better represent the delivery possibilities of your carriers. It is therefore important to enter all of a given country's administrative divisions if they are important to your carriers. You can find a list of such divisions on this Wikipedia page.
Note: the PrestaShop address form currently only lists states are available for the customer to choose. Therefore, make sure to use a sensible list when adding content to your states list. That is the reason why, for instance, the list contains Italian province rather than regioni.
Let's create a new state. Click "Add New" to get to the creation form.
- Enter the name of the state.
- Enter its ISO-3166-2 code:
- Go to this Wikipedia page
- Click the state's country two-letter code (in the "Entry" column of the main table),
- On that page, find the state's code (it should be in a list on the page, or in the text for the smallest countries),
- If there is one, remove the country's prefix in order to keep the code under 4 characters. For instance, the full ISO 3166-2 for Devon, in the United Kingdom, is "GB-DEV". Simply use "DEV" as the state's ISO code – it already is attached to the country using PrestaShop's "Country" drop-down menu (see next step).
- Indicate its country using the drop-down menu.
- Indicate its geographical zone using the drop down menu.
- Choose its status.
- Save.
Zones
PrestaShop's zones are a list of the world's subregions. It helps categorize countries.
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For example, if you want orders between 1 lbs and 15 lbs to be sent by the US Post Office with a special rate, create a weight range from 1 to 15, and set it to "US Postal Service".
Once the ranges are determined and allotted to a carrier, you can define the shipping and handling for each range. Go to the first page of the "Shipping" tab, and fill out the table found at the bottom of the page. Here we have taken as an example the bill according to the total weight of the order.