woothemes/woocommerce — Issue #200: Checkout: State/County needs to be disabled at start
Author: 61pixels
Created: 2011-11-15 15:55:50+00:00
State: open

Noticed that a few of my clients orders are coming in with the wrong Address, it has the state of Alabama even though that is not the right state for that address.

I don't think it is a "bug", but I definitely could see how that might happen if the user is filling the form in out of order. By default when you first go to checkout page, the State/County field is actually a text box, that you can type in.. It doesn't change to a select box until someone chooses their country.

I think it needs to be disabled at the start or something, because I have a feeling some people are typing in their state, then realizing they need to choose a country and it clears out what they typed and reverts it to Alabama.. Another, probably more useful solution would be to allow an admin to set the default Country that is selected. So by default when users come, it could already be on US for instance, instead of having it on the "select a country". That way 90% of our users don't have to worry about changing it, and they can simply select the state accordingly from the dropdown.