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Hello:

I've setup an event in CiviEvent which requires registration payment.  The event will have many international registrants so I need to add a State/Province (Other) field to the Billing Address section for those who are not in the U.S. or Canada.  I can't find any way at all to add or customize the billing information section in an Event.

So, is it possible and, if so, how would I add a custom field to the registration/billing address section of CiviEvent?

Thanks,
Andrew

If you have a known set of Countries that your registrants come from, you can just have these who up in the drop-downs by adding them to Available Countries / Available State-Provinces under Administer CiviCRM >> Global Settings >> Localisation.

As an aside - you'll want to make sure that your chosen payment processor accepts credit card payments from non-US card-holders.

greg:

not sure what u mean if the list provided by ccrm is incomplete. The tables are in the db, so if changes / mistakes are present in the table, users can update the relevant civicrm tables (civicrm_country, civicrm_state_province)

we had the restriction to avoid loading all the states in earlier versions. Once we've implemented the country-state widget in all forms, i suspect we will remove the restriction. this is planned for a future 2.x release

As always if this is important to you / CA, a patch to fix this in trunk will allow this to happen sooner rather than later

lobo

How can I disable the State field in the billing address?

We have folks paying/registering from non-US countries and it won't let them proceed without a state.

Thanks for your help-
Ron

I've been after the CiviCRM folks (hi Lobo) to incorporate an international postal module for a while.  With Drupal there is an excellent one called Addressfield that is tied into the new Drupal Commerce module that looks very promising.  I don't know if Joomla has something similar.

See  http://drupal.org/project/addressfield .   

In any case, lack of international postal coding in CiviCRM has kept our international non-profit from going with CiviCRM for two years now.