Price and VAT Query

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In Site Options | Layout | Product | Price layout it has an option called Use Parent (=Standard Tax Exclusive price) which suggests that the price / Tax setting is set higher up than in Site Options.

I thought Site Options was the Parent setting. Can anyone help?

I'm looking into this because some products have started to add Tax to the price I enter even when I ask them not to.

Also I have lost the 'Close Window' link from my Extended Info pop-ups - any ideas why that might be?

[cdicken]

I thought Site Options was the Parent setting. Can anyone help?

Site Options is the parent for all the sections in the store - so with regards to your products showing the wrong tax, you need to check that the 'Price Layout' of the products (or the sections that contain the products) is set to 'Use Parent'.

The 'Use Parent' in 'Site Options' refers to the default settings for the 'layout selector' that controls options in the 'Price Layout' field. This layout selector is called 'PriceLayout' and you can edit this by going to 'Design | Library | Layouts' and expanding the 'Prices' layout group. You can then double-click on the 'PriceLayout' layout selector and edit the 'Top Level Value' setting.

[cdicken]

Also I have lost the 'Close Window' link from my Extended Info pop-ups - any ideas why that might be?

Please make sure this code:

            <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
               <!--
               if (window.name != "ActPopup")
                  {
                  document.write('<a href=<actinic:variable Name="SearchPageURL"/>?PRODREF=<actinic:variable name="ProductReference"/><actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsHostMode%22%20%2f%3e">&SHOP=<Actinic:Variable Name="ShopID"/></actinic:block> target=_parent><actinic:variable name="CloseLabel"/></a>');
                  }
               else
                  {
                  document.write('<a href="javascript:window.close();"><actinic:variable Name="CloseLabel"/></a>');
                  }
               window.focus();
               //-->
            </script>

is in the layout you are using for your pop-up windows. To check this

1. Go the product with the pop-up window and switch to the 'Extended Information' tab
2. Locate the 'Extended Info Page Design' field and click the 'Preview' button. This is a toggle switch that will show the preview of the pop-up page in the preview window.
3. Change to the 'Design' tab, if you are not there already, and check the layout code for the pop-up window layout.

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With regards to the Price issue I have adjusted the Top Level Value as you mentioned to Compact Tax Inclusive and all sections and sub-sections are now set to Use Parent=Compact Tax Inclusive.

When I add a new product for £2.50 it adds tax on top to give a price of £2.94.

What I want is a price that just gives the price and does not say whether it includes tax or not. Am I using the wrong setting for this?

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Regarding the Close Window issue, that code is not there. Does it need to go in a certain place?

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Not for the first time I have managed to answer my own question...

In Design Library | Prices | Price Layout | Values I added 'Product Price Excluding Tax' to the 'Layouts Offered By This Selector' column and set that as the Parent setting.

Now when I type in £2.50 it stays as £2.50.

Sorted

[cdicken]

Regarding the Close Window issue, that code is not there. Does it need to go in a certain place?

Nope - anywhere within the main body of the page is fine.

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Thanks Chris, all sorted now.