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# 🚫 How to Exclude Specific Zip Codes from a Zone

Sometimes you deliver to a whole area — *except* a few zip codes. Maybe a couple of pin codes are too far out, or a carrier doesn’t service them. 📍

Instead of listing every zip code you *do* cover, Hoppy Delivery Dates lets you exclude the handful you *don’t* with the **Zip Codes to Exclude (Optional)** field.

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# **📋 Before You Begin**

* ✅ You’ve already created (or are creating) a delivery zone — see **How to Setup Delivery Rates and Zones?**  
* ✅ Your zone uses **Select based on zip codes** with partial or wildcard entries (exclusions are most useful here)

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# **⚙️ Step 1 — Open the Zone**

Open the **Hoppy Delivery Dates** app.

→ Go to **Rates** → click **Edit** on the zone you want to adjust (or **Add delivery zone** for a new one).

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# **✂️ Step 2 — Add Excluded Zip Codes**

In the zone form, find the **Zip Codes to Exclude (Optional)** field — it sits right below the **Zip Codes** field.

Enter the zip codes you want to leave out, separated by commas:

* `10004, 10005`

### **Example**

* **Zip Codes** → `100*` (covers everything starting with 100\)  
* **Zip Codes to Exclude (Optional)** → `10004, 10005`

Result: a customer at `10001` gets the zone’s rates ✅ — a customer at `10004` does not ❌

→ Click **Add Zone** / **Update Zone**, then **Save** in the save bar.

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# **⚠️ How Exclusions Interact with Matching**

A few things worth knowing:

* ⚠️ Excluded zip codes are matched **exactly**. If you exclude `10004`, a customer at `100041` is *not* excluded — write out the full zip code you want to block.  
* ℹ️ Exclusions are checked **after** the zone matches. So the customer’s zip must first match your **Zip Codes** entries (following your **Zip code matching** setting — Partial or Exact), and only then do exclusions remove them.  
* 💡 If an excluded customer has no other matching zone, they’ll fall back to your fallback zone (if one exists) — see **Setting a Fallback Delivery Zone**. Otherwise they won’t see a delivery rate from the app.

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# **🎉 Final Result**

Once saved:

✅ The zone covers your whole delivery area with a short zip list  
✅ Specific zip codes inside that area are cleanly carved out  
✅ Excluded customers no longer see this zone’s rates at checkout

A small field, but it keeps your zone setup short and tidy ✨