Set up regions

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• How regions work
• Instructions

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How regions work

Regions are used to create custom areas within the countries. The areas can be used to set up shipping costs, delivery time, or regional availability and pricing, depending on the availability for your country.

Country	Regional availability and pricing	Shipping cost and transit times based on custom areas
Argentina	Available (Beta)
Australia	Available	Available by state, postal code
Austria	Available (Beta)
Brazil	Available	Available by state, postal code
Canada	Available (Beta)	Available by postal code only
Chile	Available (Beta)
Columbia	Available (Beta)
Czech Republic	Available (Beta)
Denmark	Available (Beta)
France	Available	Available by state, postal code
Germany	Available (Beta)	Available by region, postal code
Great Britain	Available (Beta)	Available by postal code only
Hungary	Available (Beta)
India	Available (Beta)	Available by state, postal code
Indonesia	Available (Beta)
Italy	Available (Beta)
Japan	Available (Beta)	Available by prefecture only
Malaysia	Available (Beta)
Mexico	Available (Beta)
the Netherlands	Available (Beta)
New Zealand	Available (Beta)	Available by state, postal code
Norway	Available (Beta)
Pakistan	Available (Beta)
Peru	Available (Beta)
Philippines	Available (Beta)
Romania	Available (Beta)
Russia	Available
South Africa	Available (Beta)
South Korea	Available (Beta)
Spain	Available (Beta)
Sweden	Available (Beta)
Thailand	Available (Beta)
United States	Available	Available by state, postal code
Vietnam	Available

Creating custom areas is not the only way to set shipping costs for specific areas within the countries. You may also specify states, regions, territory, or prefectures depending on the countries using the advanced shipping cost settings. Learn more about Setting up shipping settings.

Example

If you’re located on the east coast of the United States, you may notice higher costs and extended transit times when shipping orders to the west coast. To account for these higher costs and extended transit times, you could set up a specific region for the west coast, and associate a longer transit time and higher shipping rate on deliveries to that region.

Note: When setting up fast and free shipping, ensure that the regional availability settings are accounted for.

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Instructions

Activate the “Regions” Add-on

In your Merchant Center account, click the Settings and tools icon .

Select Add-ons.

• Note: If your target country is eligible for regional availability and pricing, you’ll be able to activate the “Regions” add-on.

Click Add on the “Regions” add-on card.

After activation, you can navigate to the “Regions” page by selecting “Business Info” from the left navigation menu and clicking the “Regions” tab.

Create a new region

In your Merchant Center account, select Business Info from the left navigation menu.

Select the Regions tab.

Click Add region to create a new region.

Enter values for “Region ID”, “Region name”, and “Country”. Region ID needs to be unique for each region and can be alphanumeric (minimum of 5 characters).

• Note: Region name helps you identify the geographical area you want to include in your region. Use the drop-down menu beside “Country” to select which country this region will apply to.

Create your region using postal codes or states/provinces. To use postal codes, enter one entry per line in any of the following styles:

• A postal code (for example, 75008)
• A range of postal codes (for example, 2000-2500)
• A range of postal codes using a prefix with a wildcard ( * ) (for example, 94*)
• A range of postal codes using 2 prefixes with wildcards ( * ), using the same number of digits for both prefixes (for example, 94*-95*).
• Note: There’s a limit of 25k postal code entries per account (a range of postal codes is considered one entry). To use states/provinces, select the correct ones.

Click Add and click Save to finish creating the region.

Edit a region

In your Merchant Center account, select Business Info from the left navigation menu.

Select the Regions tab.

To edit the Region name or Region ID, edit the text in the relevant field.

• Note: You’ll need to separately update the region ID in your regional inventory feed.

To edit the geographic area:

• Postal Codes:
  • Add new codes exactly as when creating a region with one range per line. Click Add postal codes.
  • To remove a postal code, click the X next to it or click Clear all to remove all postal codes.
• States/Provinces:
  • Select or deselect the check boxes.

Click Save to finish editing the region.

Remove a region

Before you can remove a region, make sure that it's no longer in use.

In your Merchant Center account, select Business Info from the left navigation menu.

Select the Regions tab.

Click the Trash icon next to the name of the region in the “Region name” column, then click Confirm.