Zones and Shipping Methods

My client want to ship only in my state wich is Asturias in Spain,
Asturias has also 30 substates
and of those 30 substates only want to ship in three
so my question is:
first: how should i create the substates
second: in shipping method how should i create the shipping for those places
third: can hikashop, in case of the client sets an adress from none of those substates allowed, display a message saying something like we do not ship to this place, dont continue with the order?

Fourth: if i just want to have spain as country in registration and other places is there a faster way to do it instead of selectin and unpublis all the other zones?

Hi,

Ideally, I would not even ask the user to fill his substate, but simply restrict my shipping methods per zip code ranges so that if there are no shipping methods found for the zip code of the user, the default "no shipping methods found for your location" message is displayed by HikaShop and it doesn't let you continue.

Unpbulishing all the countries takes only a few seconds since you just have to filter your zones listings by country, increase the number of elements displayed, select them all with the global checkbox and click on the "unpublish" button. If you want it faster, you could write a query in the database. So I don't know of a way faster than that.

Thank Nicolas i´ll do it that way, but i really dont understand properly how zones and shipping works,
so if you can explain me the question as i wrote it would be easier for me.
I have another project in wich i have to create a store to Santiago de Chile in Chile wich only in Santiago it has 25 districts with different shipping prices, i would like to learn hot to do it f.e. if they choose santiago as state and then they have to choose the district and then show the price.

Same as before example, Asturias, its districts and shipping methods. Thanks

The thing is that the way you want it, it's not possible.
There is no option to display/hide/change the district selection based on the state selected.
And even if you suppose that it always display the districts of your state (which is not really great), there is no way for shipping methods to base themselves on it unless you customize the code of the shipping plugin heavily. So basically there is no point in doing it that way and that's why I didn't answer each point separately, and instead I proposed my solution about restricting your shipping methods based on the post code entered by the user.

I´m back again trying to undestand how can i work with that.
In the regions can i create a subregion in asturias with al the subregion, so if you select
Country :Spain
State Asturias
Region: Oviedo
creating all of them manually?

Sure. But then what ? There is no option in shipping methods to restrict your shipping methods to that region selection.

Ok understood but i have another question
For example in spain there are 2 zones spain
And spain overseas if i want to divide it in two fares
How can i do it?

You'll have to create 2 sub zones through "Hikashop->System->Zones" and add them through the "zone" restriction of your different shipping methods.