How to Add WooCommerce Checkout Default Country

The checkout page on your WooCommerce shop is where customers finalize their order, so it’s essential to get it just right. WooCommerce allows you to make almost any change using custom PHP code or plugins.

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The checkout page’s default configuration is very good, but you may need to customize it out of necessity or test for a higher conversion rate.

WooCommerce Checkout Default Country

If most of your customers are from one particular country, it makes sense to change the default country on the Checkout page. You can also preset to a specific State.

However, WooCommerce does not have the built-in functionality to add a default country, but you can achieve this functionality using a custom PHP code snippet.

Steps to Add a Default Billing Country and State on the WooCommerce Checkout Page

Here are the steps that you need to follow:

Log into your WordPress site and access the dashboard as the admin user
From the dashboard menu, click on the Appearance Menu > Theme Editor Menu. When the theme editor page is opened, look for the theme functions file with the extension functions.php. Open this functions file to add the function to add a default billing country and state on the WooCommerce checkout page.
Add the following line of code to the functions.php file:

/**

 * @snippet       Set Default Billing Country @ WooCommerce Checkout Page

  */

 // Example 1: default state to OREGON

 add_filter( 'default_checkout_billing_state', 'njengah_change_default_checkout_state' );

  function njengah_change_default_checkout_state() {

  return 'OR'; // state code

}

 // Example 2: default country to United States

 add_filter( 'default_checkout_billing_country', 'njengah_change_default_checkout_country' );

 function njengah_change_default_checkout_country() {

  return 'US';

}

This is the outcome:
Note that the default_checkout_billing_country filter affects both existing and non-existing users. If you want only to change the default for non-existing users, then you can use this:

/**

* Change the default country on the checkout for non-existing users only

*/

add_filter( 'default_checkout_billing_country', 'njengah_default_checkout_country', 10, 1 );

function njengah_default_checkout_country( $country ) {

// If the user already exists, don't override country

if ( WC()->customer->get_is_paying_customer() ) {

return $country;

}

return 'DE'; // Override default to Germany (an example)

}

Conclusion

In summary, you have learned how you can set the default country and state. However, you should keep in mind that the first code snippet affects both existing and non-existing users. The second code snippet only changes the default billing country for non-existing users. If you are not familiar with handling code, please contact a qualified WordPress developer so that you do not break down your site.

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