I think i might have to consider setting up postage there as well as my UK market here is fading so fast I fall off the chair when and if a Folksy sale pings in…
I have sent overseas a few times and if someone asks i set the postage up… usually… but sometimes the person asking sounds a bit odd so i say no 
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I sell to the USA, Canada and Australia but have stopped on Folksy as the postage sections are plain ridiculous. Hence why resurrected my E…y shop. Hate doing it but not prepared to obliterate sections of the world because of postage sections. I have been able to set up specifics ie USA & CANADA and AUS & NZ
They should be:
UK
EUROPE AND NI
USA & CANADA
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
ROW - Not including any of the above.
Or perhaps we could set our own parameters for specific countries.
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Why is Folksy so awkward to use, nothing is straightforward, most flatforms allow you to choose which countries do deliver/post to, even my old business website I could do that, you just tick the box by each country you are willing to post to.
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I agree I had with my old Sandvox software from Karelia, also able to do sub menus under a title such as bags, then sub with tote, clutch etc. Now have to have oodles of sections in my shop and looks so unprofessional. Cannot see John Lewis etc putting up with that.
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I have reopened my E…y shop to enable me to sell to the US and Canada
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In light of the Trumped Up Tarriffs and me no longer wanting to sell to the USA or Under Soviet Authority, and my desire to get back to selling my products to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is there anything in the works on the shipping side of things that will allow us to specify shipping prices to Canada as a stand alone country (which are a different cost to the USA, especially for higher valued items sent tracked and insured) and also a separate shipping cost to Australia & New Zealand?
I dont want to have to use the everywhere else thing cos i dont want to sell to everywhere, just UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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I would also like to take Soviet out of my postage options but at the minute the only option are Uk, EU, US and everywhere else, there isn’t another way of doing it and the postage options have only recently been upgraded to allow us to switch off selling to the EU. It was so much easier a few years ago when the world was a nicer place and we were happy to post everywhere. Unfortunately with the state of the world now it’s getting where we will only be posting to the UK before long.
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Can we have an update as to where we are at with this at this time please?
I ship to the UK, we have a price box for that, so that’s OK, although I need to update to the new costs that came in yesterday.
I currently ship to the USA, we have a price box for that, so that’s OK, although I need to look into the current costs under Trump and make changes.
I don’t ship to the EU or Northern Ireland now that we have to have a “representative” etc so I need to have them totally excluded and not included in “rest of the world”. In fact, any countries that do have specific boxes shouldn’t be included in Rest of the World even if there are no prices in the specific boxes. We understand how it “used to work” but the world has changed and the old way of doing the shipping on here no longer works for the current world when you have to consider all of the rules and regulations that have been introduced by certain countries and tariffs and such like.
I don’t currently have a price in the Rest of the World box for obvious reasons.
I and many others here would like to see specific postage price boxes for Canada (not lumped in with the USA please as they are vastly different prices and are a completely different RM World Zone to the USA) and then another than covers Australia & New Zealand.
To me, at least, Rest of the World would then be places like India, China, South Africa, South America blah blah blah.
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@DrapedInLace Shipping was changed in December so that rest of the world no longer includes EU, NI or US. If you fill in a price for rest of the world but not EU & NI or US, both of those sections will show ‘doesn’t deliver here’.
We do want to allow sellers to be in control of exactly which countries they do and don’t ship to, rather than being restricted by a few countries/regions we select, but that is a change that would take a lot of development work, so it’s not something we can give a timescale for at the moment as we’re currently focused on other priorities.
what worries me a bit is that most of us know about the NI and EU reps etc but I see a lot of new shops opening that obviously have no idea about these new rules.
I wonder how many of them are heading for problems if they get sales to these countries?
Thank you, that’s good to know that that is now sorted out and gives me a good starting point. I can now sit this evening update the shipping prices to the USA (RM World zone 3) and then Canada (RM World zone 1) and Australasia (RM World zone 3) will have to be clumped together in Rest of the World with the price set at the highest amount and should I do actually sell something to Canada, I will have to refund the difference, which is anything between £2 and £10. I can work with this for now at least.
It’s up to individuals to educate themselves as to the legal requirements - all we can do is to try to stay up-to-date ourselves and perhaps give a gentle hint if we think a new shop is headed for trouble!
I would suspect, from the number of new shops which list things with multiple stock quantity when not on Plus -that many don’t even read the Folksy TLCs, never mind the message to warn fees are charged per unit as they create the listings …so never mind any legal requirements. 