Manual Shipping Method Default

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We have 3 shipping method options in this order of priority:

1) UPS
2) USPS
3) Local Store Pickup (manual)

Local Store Pickup is restricted to the state of Kansas only.
It has text over ride set with a message that says where to pickup.

The problem is during checkout if your state is set to Kansas.

If you address = Kansas, then the shipping method always defaults to "Local Store Pickup" even thought it isn't first in the list AND the "Auto select default shipping and payment methods" is set to No.

This doesn't matter if Address & Shipping are on different steps in the cart or on the same step.

This causes confusion as Kansas customer sees the override "Shipping Address" text with no way to change it.

The customer has to first select a different shipping method first, before they can adjust the address which is not intuitive, especially when they are on a separate step. But to be clear, it isn't any better when they are on the same step.

I don't believe the cart should be defaulting to that 3rd option - especially when the cart is set specifically not to auto select in the settings.

I'm in legacy cart mode but I've also tested this without too - same problem.

HikaShop Business 3.2.0 [1709251147] (upgraded to as of this post)

Note, in case it isn't clear for others - I'd recommend creating a dummy shipping zone.

I'm using TaxCloud for the tax rates so the native HikaShop tax system really is not that important in my case.

I originally tried Nicolas' idea before contacting them & set the Master Tax Zone set to None, then USA.
But apparently that is still enough triggered the condition.

I could set it to another country, but this particular site only ships to to the USA so all others are disabled to avoid confusion. If I re-published an other country and set it to the Master Tax Zone, it worked. But that left me with a country option I didn't want showing.

So I setup up a simple Shipping Zone entry and assigned that to the Master Tax Zone.
Far as I can tell, that doesn't come into play any where else.

Just be sure you have the override your shipping tax zone in your shipping method(s) if you do this.

When the user purchases a virtual file, why is the shipping option still displayed for him? And the shipping amount is also added to his invoice. How to fix this?