Removing VAT row in basket and adding the VAT directly to the item.

[Rob_jones]

Hi all,

We're currently making a website for a school clothing company (euroschools.blueprintit.co.uk) and we're having some problems with the VAT in the basket.

At present there's a VAT row in the basket that shows the VAT separate of the item ordered, we want it so the VAT is added to the item and not have a VAT row. The problem is that we have child's clothing (which has NO VAT) and adult's clothing (which has 17.5% VAT). Obviously adding on the 17.5% would add it to the child's clothing aswell. How can we add the VAT to the items without it doing this?

Thanks

[Rob_jones]

Can anyone help with this please?

Thanks

[NormanRouxel]

This is the wrong place to do this.

You should set the VAT in the Product Details / Details. Here you can set the VAT to be zero or standard depending on the item.

[Rob_jones]

This is the wrong place to do this.

You should set the VAT in the Product Details / Details. Here you can set the VAT to be zero or standard depending on the item.

Thanks for the reply Norman.

The products have been given VAT rates in the product details, the problem is that in the basket the VAT is being added on separate to the item in it's own VAT row. We want to remove this row and have it so the VAT is included in the price in the basket. We can't hard code it to add 17.5% because it's adding VAT to childrens items aswell (they have no VAT).

How can we remove the VAT row in the basket and get the adult items to include the 17.5% and the childrens items to not include 17.5% in the price?

Thanks

[dave_finlayson]

Rob,

At the moment, you can't. The only way around this would be to enter all your prices in Actinic with the final vatable (or not) price. However, if you are transferring orders from Actinic to an accounts package (in fact doing anything with them other than posting them straight out) this is probably not an option for you, especially if dealing with schools!

I believe this issue is being looked at by Actinic and will arrive in a update at some point, but probably not before v9

[NormanRouxel]

As David says, you can't do this. If this is a must have requirement then the only solution for now would be to do some extensive and tricky modification of the Perl scripts - probably ActinicOrder.pm. Not a job for the faint hearted.

[LBLB]

currently developing uniform online shop on v7, check our under construction site, think we/re a step ahead, is this what you are trying to achieve in terms of vat showing etc in the cart? if so we can help, we had problems too!

http://www.lesterbowden.co.uk/acatal...formindex.html

howard and emily

[Rob_jones]

Thanks everyone for the replies.

Rob,

At the moment, you can't. The only way around this would be to enter all your prices in Actinic with the final vatable (or not) price. However, if you are transferring orders from Actinic to an accounts package (in fact doing anything with them other than posting them straight out) this is probably not an option for you, especially if dealing with schools!

I believe this issue is being looked at by Actinic and will arrive in a update at some point, but probably not before v9

Yes, like you said, it's not really an option because we will be transferring orders from Actinic at some point. Hopefully Actinic can bring out the update before the end of the week (here's me hoping!!).

As David says, you can't do this. If this is a must have requirement then the only solution for now would be to do some extensive and tricky modification of the Perl scripts - probably ActinicOrder.pm. Not a job for the faint hearted.

We have a coder thats willing to have a look at the Perl scripts, do you know the lines in the script we need to look at? It would be a great help as we don't know where to start.

currently developing uniform online shop on v7, check our under construction site, think we/re a step ahead, is this what you are trying to achieve in terms of vat showing etc in the cart? if so we can help, we had problems too!

http://www.lesterbowden.co.uk/acatal...formindex.html

howard and emily

Very kind of you to show your website, thanks. I think we may be at the same point. In the basket we don't want a VAT row, we want the VAT to be directly added to the item. Like I said, it's tricky because the childrens and adult sizes have different VAT rates so we couldn't just add 17.5% (like we tried).

Thanks all for replying again.

[LBLB]

we think the only way that you can bypass the vat row in checkout is to have all the products as zero rated tax.

it is possible though to set it up so that vat is only charged on the adults sizes of a single product (with both adult and childs sizes). thats how ours is set up.

howard and emily

[NormanRouxel]

We have a coder thats willing to have a look at the Perl scripts, do you know the lines in the script we need to look at? It would be a great help as we don't know where to start

Not really. Start by looking in ActinicOrder.pm sub PreprocessCartToDisplay and sub ShowCart. I've no further knowledge of how tax is calculated or displayed so I can't help further.

[NormanRouxel]

Here's a Kludge that might help you get started.

Edit ActinOrder.pm

Look for the lines

			$sInfoLine = InfoLineHTML($$pProduct{'OTHER_INFO_PROMPT'}, $sInfo, $sInfoLineHTML);
			}

immediately after these lines, add the line

$sInfoLine .= '[TAX1: ' . $CurrentItem{TAX1} . 'p TAX2: ' . $CurrentItem{TAX2} . 'p]';

This will give a diagnostic display of the line item taxes. I've no idea what will happen for Components, Attributes, etc.

[Rob_jones]

Here's a Kludge that might help you get started.

Edit ActinOrder.pm

Look for the lines

			$sInfoLine = InfoLineHTML($$pProduct{'OTHER_INFO_PROMPT'}, $sInfo, $sInfoLineHTML);
			}

immediately after these lines, add the line

$sInfoLine .= '[TAX1: ' . $CurrentItem{TAX1} . 'p TAX2: ' . $CurrentItem{TAX2} . 'p]';

This will give a diagnostic display of the line item taxes. I've no idea what will happen for Components, Attributes, etc.

Thanks Norman, we'll have a go at this and I'll post the results.

Thanks again

[LBLB]

any success on this?