Regions

The Regions screen lets you define geographic regions within countries that your eCommerce site services. For example, in the United States of America, each state is a region.

See Screen Sample

Regions are used in the same way that countries are used. See Also: How Countries are Used

See Screen Sample

Default Regions

By default, the Regions screen includes all 50 United States of America, the District of Columbia, and 9 Canadian Provinces.

Creating a Region

Prerequisite: The region’s country is defined in the Countries screen

To add a new region, follow these steps. See Also: Regions

1. Go to Ektron CMS400.NET Workarea > Settings > Commerce > Configuration > Regions.

2. Choose New > Region.

3. Use the following table to complete the screen.

Field	Description
Name	Enter the region’s name.
Enabled	Check this box if you want this region to be active. Only active regions can be selected on the Edit Billing Information screen, which appears when site visitors enter billing information during the Checkout procedure. See Screen Sample
Code	Enter an abbreviation for this region.
Country	Select this region’s country from the pull down list. If the country is not there, exit this screen, and create the country using the Countries screen.
Add another region to this country?	This field saves the effort of selecting a country when entering several regions for one country. To add more regions for this country, check this box and press Save (). When you do, the screen refreshes, and the most recently selected country appears as the default.

Editing a Region

Follow these steps to edit a region. See Also: Regions

1. Go to Ektron CMS400.NET Workarea > Settings > Commerce > Configuration > Regions.

2. Click the name of the region that you want to edit.

3. Click Edit ().

4. Edit any of the fields, which are described in Use the following table to complete the screen.

Deleting a Region

Follow these steps to delete a region. See Also: Regions

1. Go to Ektron CMS400.NET Workarea > Settings > Commerce > Configuration > Regions.

2. Click the name of the region that you want to delete.

3. Click Delete ().

4. A confirmation message appears.

5. Click OK.