Set default country according to IP

[swaldman]

Title:
Set default country according to IP

Area:
Shop

Summary:
When making purchases in the shop, it would be nifty if your country could be defaulted to a best guess based on IP.

Description:
It would be a minor convenience feature, and might involve quite a lot of work/hassle/complexity... but I thought I'd throw it out there in case somebody says "oh, that'd be easy actually" :-)

Drawbacks: Slowdown as the lookup is done; don't know whether this would be significant. Maybe there are some situations in which people would be offended by an incorrect guess?

Poll #13460 Set default country according to IP

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (13.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
23 (50.0%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (34.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[matgb]

Ah, I'm misremembering then, in which case yeah, everyone has to select a country, if it selects the wrong country fixing it is easy.

OTOH, if it defaults to blank, people are forced to change it, if it's not blank people might not always check it's correct and errors happen, invalid cards, etc. No idea if that's a major concern-I'm going to vote for this as I think it's a good idea, but I can see there are problems with it, although some of the objections make less sense to me for above stated reasons.