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Managing Countries

Learn how to enable/disable the countries in the list and add states to them if required.

Olga Tereshina avatar
Written by Olga Tereshina
Updated over a week ago

X-Cart has a built-in list of 249 countries with states configured for 11 of them (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States). All information on countries and states in X-Cart is based on ISO_3166-2.

You can check the countries list in your online store on the Countries page in the Admin area:

  • X-Cart 5.4.x - Store Setup > Countries, States, and Zones > Countries

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  • X-Cart 5.5.x - Store Management > Localization > Countries

A store admin can enable/disable countries and add states to countries if necessary on this page. The management is the same for both X-Cart 5.4.x and 5.5.x.

Updating Country Status

To change a country status, a store admin should:

  1. Locate a country you want to modify.
    For this purpose, the store admin can either check the list of the countries one by one or use the search bar available on the Countries page of the store's Admin area:

    541-countries-search-bar.png

  2. Change the status using one of the following ways:

    • Switch the "ON/OFF" button opposite the country in question from green to grey:

      541-countries-disable-icon.png

    • Select the countries that need to be enabled/disabled, click the "Status" button that will appear at the bottom of the page, and change the countries' status in bulk:

      541-countries-disable-checkbox.png

  3. Click the "Save changes" control to submit the changes.

Editing States

To add/edit states, a store admin should:

  1. Locate the country you want to modify.
    For this purpose, the store admin can either check the list of the countries one by one or use the search bar available on the "Countries" page in the store's Admin area:

    541-countries-search-bar.png


    The countries with states will have the "Edit states" link instead of "Add states."

    countries-edit-states.png

  2. Click the "Add states" link opposite the country in question.

    countries-add-button.png


    You will be redirected to the States page, where it's necessary to:

    • Click the "Add state" button.

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    • Fill in the required state info in the blank line that will appear.

      541-states-new-blank.png

    • Add as many states this way as required.

    • Click Save changes.

The country with the newly created state(s) will be added to the list of countries with states:

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To add states to the countries with states, click "Edit states" and follow the procedure described in the Managing States guide.


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