[Resolved] Manual orders - to stop UK county being compulsory

[sailing123]

Hi,

When I create a manual order, 99% are for a UK address. The system forces me to select a county which is not a compulsory data for delivery with Royal Mail for instance.

When I use Royal Mail postcode search, you get addresses with no county. So now, I end up having to search Google with my postcode to find the county so that Cubecart allows me to save my manual order.

Is there a way I could stop the admin to force a county selection for manual orders but leave it live with online orders ?

Thanks

S.

[keat]

Not quite the answer you were looking for, but if you create a new zone, give it an abreviation like MTY (empty),and in the name field add about 4 blank spaces.

You can save this as an empty county which also appears at the top of your county list so easy to find.

I suppose a lazy customer could also use this though.

[sailing123]

Excellent suggestion ! Implemented and works well. A lazy customer may use it but not a big deal as UK counties are not as critical as correct postcodes.

Thanks again :-)

S.

Edited April 29, 2017 by sailing123

[Dirty Butter]

I'm in the US, but I can make good use of this as well for our UK customers! I just tried it, and it works - but it puts a comma in front of the ZIP on the delivery address for the packing slip.

Creating orders for a UK customer are extremely rare for me, but this comma might need to be edited out of your packing slip for those who need to do this a lot.

[iant]

My work around is once the address is entered go to another tab ie overview is the one I use then click either the "save" or "Save and reload" button then it seems to skip this check  quick and easy 

 

also found this for registered customers sometimes its missing and this is my work around.