Localisation
Under the localisation section of J2Commerce dashboard, the following options would be available:
Countries
Zones
Geozones
Tax rates
Tax profiles
Lengths
Weights
Order statuses
Introduction
These are basically properties that help you to configure your store to your local/regional needs. Primarily for taxation purposes. You can also add/edit countries, zones, group the countries/zones as geozones, length, and weight measurements. You can also create more custom order statuses
Countries
A list of most of the countries in the world. You can choose one from the list. If any odd one that is not found in the list, you can very well create that. The fields are:
Country Name - Name of the country
Country code - 2-digit international standard code
Country code - 3-digit international standard code
Enabled - Published or Unpublished i.e., only if the country is published, it will be available for the customer
Check the image below:
Adding a new country
The listing of countries will be like this in your J2Commerce.
Zones
Zones are regions that are separated by geographical area for ease of administration purposes, within a country. Generally, in every country, the state or province, as the case may be, is treated as a zone.
Just have a look on the image below, which displays the list of zones.
Adding new zones
Almost all the zones are loaded by default in J2Commerce, but if you need to create one as and when the situation arises, you can very well do so, as illustrated in the image below.
The required fields for a zone are as follows and are fairly self-explanatory…
Zone Name - Name of the new zone
Zone Code - Code attached to the zone
Country - Country to which the zone belongs
Status - Whether it is enabled for use by the customer
Geozones
Geozones are created based on geographical locations that have common tax profiles. Geozones are used to set up different tax practices for different countries and zones.
For instance, if the tax percentage for Europe is set at 5% and for the US at 10%, then two geozones are created for this purpose and countries belonging to Europe are added to one geozone and the US to the other geozone.
If a geozone is created and saved, then an option row will be displayed to add countries and zones to the new geozone. Like this, any number of zones or countries can be added or removed from geozones.
In the configuration page, go to the Store tab and create a profile with the United States in the country field and California as the state
Now, create a geozone with a meaningful name of your choice. In this example, it is ‘Tax 14’
Map the country and zone in the fields shown below with the United States and California
See the image
What is the use of Geozones?
Geozones are used when you are trying to set tax rates or shipping costs, it becomes necessary to determine where the tax rate or shipping method should take effect. In that case, you will create geozones including the regions where you wish to levy tax or shipping charges and associate it with the tax rate or the shipping method. Geozones would also help you to set up tax or shipping for a particular zone, for example: Levy 20% tax for the California zone alone. In this case, you could create a geozone only for California and associate it with the desired tax rate. You can also restrict payment methods based on geozones.
Tax rates
Create tax rates for your region (geozone)
Tax profiles
One or more tax rates are grouped to form a tax profile. You can map the tax rates to either the customer’s billing or shipping address.IMPORTANT: Make sure your taxes are mapped correctly. If you choose Billing here, then in your Configuration - Tax, the Calculate tax based on should also be set to the same address type.
Generally, tax is calculated for the billing address. But in some countries, it is calculated for shipping.
Let an example to help understand how it works. This example assumes that the store is located in the state of California, US.
Now, create a tax rate on that page by entering the sample data.
Name: Tax
Tax Percent: 14.2 (Enter only numbers and a single decimal point. No other symbols should be used)
Geozone: 14.2 (Select the geozone from the list)
Status: Published
Now, check the Tax Rate image
Now, go to tax profiles and add a new profile.
Taxprofile Name: Profile 14.2 (any name of your choice)
Now click the green button ‘Save’ only, and no other button.
Now you can map the tax rates by assigning one to an address type as described below:
Rate: select the added ‘Value Added Tax’ from the list.
Associated Address: select ‘Billing Address’ from the list.
Check the image below:
Lengths
By default, J2Commerce adds the most commonly used length measurements. If you require more measurement units, you can add them here.
Length Title
Formal name of the measurement unit for the base quantity length. (e.g. Centimeter)
Length Unit
Short form of measurement unit. (e.g. cm)
Length Value
This is set to be 1 by default. All other measuring units for base quantity length are relative to the given example unit, and the value entered for those units must be in correlation to this unit.
For e.g., there are 10 mm in 1 cm. Likewise, 0.39370000 inch is in 1 cm
Like this, every value should be relative to cm
Refer to the image below.
Adding new length units
If your desired length unit is not available on the above list, you can add new units, if needed, as illustrated below.
Weights
By default, J2Commerce adds the most commonly used weight measurements. If you require more measurement units, you can add them here.
Weight Title
Formal name of the measurement unit for the base quantity weight. (e.g. Kilogram)
Weight Unit (short form)
The short form of a measurement unit. (e.g., kg)
Weight Value
The default value for kg is set to be 1. This should be in relation to other units of measurement.
For e.g., there are 1000 grams in 1 Kg, and hence the grams should be set to 1000 when Kg is set to 1.
Adding a new weight unit
If you want to add a new measuring unit for weight, you can do it as illustrated below:
Order statuses
By default, J2Commerce comes with the following core order statuses.
CONFIRMED
PROCESSED
FAILED
PENDING
NEW
CANCELLED
To add a new order status
Sometimes you might want to add new order statuses apart from the ones that are already there. For example, something like Shipped. But the shipped status is not available on the default order statuses. In this case, you could create a new order status by following the steps below:
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