It is appropriate at this point to discuss the Locations/Taxes section in the admin tool because the settings here impact directly on your payment and shipping policies. By this stage, you have had plenty of practice using the admin tool, so I won’t hold you up too much with a long discussion. Instead, we will look at the available settings and relate them to what you need for your business.
The default page, Countries, simply gives a list of all the ISO country codes. It’s a useful reference if you decide to use a zone-based shipping policy, because you will need to enter various country codes into your zone-based shipping table.
The next page, Zones, gives a list of the more common zones or regions in Europe and North America, which is useful for osCommerce users. For example, there is a zone code for each of the states in the US, including some overseas territories. These can be used while determining which zones you will ship to, or what tax policy to implement—you...