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Block certain products from being purchased from international customers?


pete2007

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We are using osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.4

Does anyone know how we can block certain products from being brought from international customers?

We sell a few prohibited products/heavy items which we cannot send outside the UK, does anyone know if there is a module which we can use?

Thank you in advance!

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Is there anything in the way of "shipping restrictions" (add-ons) that would end up prohibiting shipping outside a certain zone? If you can't ship it, you can't buy it. That wouldn't prevent the item from being put in the cart in the first place (even if the shipping address is known at that point), but it might help. Maybe a shipping cost of -1 (outside the local zone) could be a flag to block the item? Don't forget to document such restrictions on the product page, to warn potential buyers up front, before they attempt to purchase it.

By the way, osC 2.3.4 is quite obsolete. You should be thinking about upgrading to the current version, which is 2.3.4.1BS Edge/CE/Frozen/Final on GitHub. This won't help you with your original issue, but you shouldn't let yourself fall so far behind that upgrading (when forced to by your host's server upgrades) becomes an agonizing ordeal.

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2 hours ago, pete2007 said:

We are using osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.4

Does anyone know how we can block certain products from being brought from international customers?

We sell a few prohibited products/heavy items which we cannot send outside the UK, does anyone know if there is a module which we can use?

Thank you in advance!

have a look at this old post.

 

 

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51 minutes ago, MrPhil said:

By the way, osC 2.3.4 is quite obsolete. You should be thinking about upgrading to the current version, which is 2.3.4.1BS Edge/CE/Frozen/Final on GitHub. This won't help you with your original issue, but you shouldn't let yourself fall so far behind that upgrading (when forced to by your host's server upgrades) becomes an agonizing ordeal.

Thanks for all the replies, I'll look more into the suggested solutions.

Up to what version of PHP will version 2.3.4 be ok to use? thanks

 

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I seem to recall reports of people starting to experience problems with osC 2.3.4 at around PHP 5.5, maybe even 5.4. Considering that 5.6 will soon be out of support, and 7.1 is considered the current release (or even 7.2?), I wouldn't hang on to osC 2.3.4 for any longer than necessary to get 2.3.4.1CE up and running (without being in a panicked rush).

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