So, for the UK the only two sections you need to worry about is:

Configuration> Shipping > Shipping Methods:

and you only need to use ‘set allowed countries’ for the UK. Northern Ireland comes under UK already and….

The shipping methods available to you for all inventory are:

• By Weight
• By  Total
• Individually (Not integrated with CA so it would mean editing each and every one)
• Fixed prices
• Free Shipping
• By Total and Percent

Zones are not available for UK users, but you can use in store pick up or live rates from companies such as Fedex and UPS. But lets face it we mostly use Royal Mail in the UK for all its faults.

One nice attribute on the shipping side is that when your customer has their item in checkout, there is a neat ‘Get Shipping Estimates’ button which allows your customer to find out how much the shipping will cost and the options available before carrying on through checkout.

Oh, and did you see what I did there? I set up a shipping method for International Signed for Europe and a separate one for Rest of World (ROW) to mimic zones.

You can of course do this for every zone you need and just call the method Royal Mail International Signed For (Zone 5) etc and set the allowed countries appropriately. Possibly just shorten it to whatever you need, but that is the only way I can see that UK users can use zoned shipping as we know it.

But remember to map it to your CA account in Stores > Premium Stores (Configuration)