Yes, I said “opt for”! I said that because the features is already in the Zen Cart system, and No, we don’t have to create it from scratch.

Okay, the Zen Cart works like this. It first reads the default registration country and it will populate the State/Province tabs with the pre-defined details. Shops that are mostly selling and are having customers from the US have the luxury in enjoying the pre-defined states list. For the rest of the world, you will have to create one on your own.

Anyway, enough of the theories. To enable the pull down option, you need to:

1. Login to your Zen Cart backend admin screen;
2. Browse to Configuration >> Customers Details;
3. Look for the “State – Always display as pulldown?” and select “true” from there.

There are 2 ways that you can disable the salutation (the Mr.  & Ms. thing) that are being ready for selection during the account registration. They are the hard way and the easy way.

The hard way require you to edit a few php files and have them uploaded to the server via a ftp program. Of course, you might not want to do that if you knew what the easy way that I am going to tell you in the follow section was.

To disable the (salutation) option, you need to:

1. Login to your Zen Cart backend admin screen;
2. Browse to Configuration >> Customers Details;
3. Look for the “Email Salutation” option and select “false” from there.

See, it is very easy.

Please also note that by removing the salutation options, it will stop the displaying at the account registration screen as well as stopping it in showing on any outgoing emails.