I posted this to the wrong forum earlier. oops!


Anyway, many products out there (from spray paint, herbs, cold medicines, knives, pepper sprays, pharmaceuticals, alcoholic beverages, cleaning chemicals, auto tints, etc) are restricted by postal code, county, city/locality, state/province, and country as well as quantities that can be sold.

It would be nice to see something like this where you can add products to restricted categories and a message would pop-up denying it to be added to the cart (if the customer is logged in) or highlighting restricted items in the cart at checkout and prompting the user for correction (prohibiting the transaction to be made).

This would further eliminate a liability for sales of these items (New Jersey, for example is suing website owners for shipment of ammo - which is legal to do in Kentucky, however shipping bourbon to KY is forbidden but allowed in most other states resulting in "bankrupting" fines - happened to a client of mine).



I have yet to see any cart system on the web that provides this much needed feature (I've customized other cart programs to do shipping restrictions, but none exist out of the box).



I realize shipping restrictions do change often, so having the ability to define "restriction" categories and "restriction" locations (city/county/zip/state/etc) would be necessary.