$20 for your Help! Add Regions/States to check out drop down

Hello

I read: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... &blog_id=1 (Geo zones [For Dummies]) and followed it carefully (I think) but I have not been able to add US States to my customers' drop down Regions/Sates option during checkout.

I currently have all the Canadian provinces showing up in the drop down window under Region/State in Step 2 of my checkout but I cannot get any US states to show up. I do not charge Tax to US customers and the only place I do not have the States entered in Admin Localisation is under "Tax Rates" but that is because there is no tax to charge them. Is this the problem?

Under Shipping I have "Free Shipping" Enabled for All Zones. I only added Arizona to Geo Zone and not every state to see if it worked, it did not.

Thanks
Sergio

Go to System -> Localisation then create or edit a United States geo zone. In the United States geo zone you'll need to add each of the states/territories, Country: United States - Zone: Alabama, Country: United States - Zone: Arizona, and so on.

If you're using an older version of OpenCart you should purge your cache files. There was a bug which kept them from being updated right away. The cache files are located in the /system/cache/ directory and are in the form of cache.*.1234567890.

Thanks for your reply. I upgraded my oc from 1.4.9.1 to 1.5.6.1. in February. I did not have US states in either version in my checkout.

I have added GeoZones By State and as you suggested with Country: United States - Zone: Alabama, Country: United States - Zone: Arizona, and so on. See below . Neither is showing up in my checkout drop down window. AND

Did you clear the cache?

I was wondering about that... Can you clear the cache from the Admin? or is it something a developer does from the FTP?

I looked on Admin and could not see a cache under system..

Thanks
Sergio

I have an Error log that hasn't been cleared for a while.....

/system/cache/cache.*.1234567890

Sorry Ryan.... I'm not very technical. Is /system/cache/cache.*.1234567890 something that can be done in the Admin?

If not I will need to ask a programmer to do it.

thanks
Sergio

You do it by FTP or through the web panel file manager in cPanel/Plesk. The directory is /system/cache/ and the files are named like cache.*.1234567890. Some 1.5x versions have a bug where the geo zone cache wasn't cleared after an update so you'd have to wait an hour or so for it to expire.

How did you go sergio123?

Have you got someone to clear your cache, your do you still need assistance?

Regards,

CPC.