component pricing and vat

[mountain fever]

Got some components with different price choices
Have used overide price and set product price to 0 so that original product doesn't have a price.
However overide products don't seem to register any vat when checking out.
Is there any way round this.
Hope this makes sense.

[Natalie]

Hi,

Have you setup associated products for these choices?

By defualt actinic displays the permuation prices 'excluding' VAT. Using the advanced user guide, you can change this to display them inclusive:

*Please make sure you take a snapshot of your site before you begin*

Showing Permutation Prices Including Tax

By default, prices within a drop-down list (or a grid) are always shown excluding tax. These prices will ignore whatever you have set for 'Price Layout' within Site Options (or the section/product) and so can look inconsistent with your product prices.
There is a simple workaround for this, however, which will show the prices including tax. This example is based around a VAT rate of 17.5%.
1. In the 'Design' tab, click in a drop down list that has a price in. Look at the layout code at the bottom of the tab. You should be looking at a layout called 'Drop Down Permutation List'.
2. Double-click on the pink 'Drop Down Permutation Entry' layout selector. This should navigate to this layout.
3. In the new layout, double-click on the pink 'PermutationPrice' layout selector.
4. Replace the entire contents of that layout with the following:

Code:
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PermutationAssociatedPricesAreUsed%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20FALSE" >
   (+<actinic:block PHP='true' SELECTABLE='false'>formattedcurrency(round(<actinic:variable name="PermutationPriceRaw" /> * 1.175, <actinic:variable name="CurrencyDigits" />), <actinic:variable name="CurrencyDigits" />, '<actinic:variable name="MoneyDecimalSeparator" />', '<actinic:variable name="MoneyThousandSeparator" />', '<actinic:variable name="DefaultCurrency" />');</actinic:block>)
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PermutationAssociatedPricesAreUsed%22%20%2f%3e" />
   (+<actinic:block PHP='true' SELECTABLE='false'>formattedcurrency(round(<actinic:variable name="AssociatedProduct::ProductPriceRaw" /> * 1.175, <actinic:variable name="CurrencyDigits" />), <actinic:variable name="CurrencyDigits" />, '<actinic:variable name="MoneyDecimalSeparator" />', '<actinic:variable name="MoneyThousandSeparator" />', '<actinic:variable name="DefaultCurrency" />');</actinic:block>)
</actinic:block>

5. Click 'Apply' to save your changes.
This will include the VAT-inclusive prices in the drop-down list.
You can replace '1.175' with a different multiplication factor if you want.
If you cannot find the layout via the 'Design' tab, you can always go to 'Design | Library | Layouts' and then edit the layouts within the 'Permutation Prices' group.


Hope this helps.