Adding Country Codes

You create country/region codes to identify the countries and regions where users who order items from your site will have those items sent. Country/region codes identify the countries that appear on your Web site. Commerce Server provides several country codes, including those for the United States, Japan, Germany and Canada.

Notes

• Country or region codes must be added to your Commerce Server database before the state or province codes for that country or region can be added. If you try to add a state or province code for a country or region you have not yet added to your database, you will receive an error message.
  
  
• If you need to use a plug-in application provided by a delivery service, you should contact that delivery service to find out the standard country codes they use (such as DE for Germany and FR for France) before adding country/region codes to your database.

To add a country/region code

1. In Orders, click Data Codes.
   
   
2. In the Order Status Codes screen, click on the toolbar, select Country/Region Codes from the drop-down list, and then click on the toolbar.
   
   
3. In the Country Codes screen, do the following:

   Use this	To do this
   Country/Region Code	Type an alphabetic code for the country or region.
   Display Name	Type the country or region name.
   Description	Type a description for the country or region code, if necessary.

   
   
4. To save the country code and return to the Country/Region Codes screen, click on the toolbar.

The new country code appears in the Country/Region Codes screen.

Note

• After you add a country code, your system administrator must unload the Commerce Server application from memory on each Web server in order for the change to take effect. For more information, see "Unloading an Application from Memory" in Commerce Server 2000 Help.

See Also

Workflow for Order Management

About Orders

Adding State/Province Codes

Managing Data Codes and Tax Rates