add vat to order depending on user choice

[abruzzi]

Hi,

The prices displayed on my website do not include VAT. At some stage of the checkout process, I would like to give my users an option to inlcude VAT to their order, and thus display the prices of the products ion their order with VAT. Is there a function in Actinic that would let me do that, or shall I write the code to do it? (I am thinking a radio button or a checkbox with proper variables..) Can anyone suggest me best solution?

Thanks,
Albert

[leehack]

You're not going to do that easily without an inordinate amount of work, if indeed it can be achieved. I'd advise you setup your site to show both inclusive and exclusive pricing and cover both bases in one. That's available as standard and your only logical solution here.

[Mike Hughes]

This seems a bit of an odd request.

1. VAT isn't optional so why make it an option to display it or not?

2. the standard VAT setup means the cart and checkout will display the product prices and sub-total without VAT and then list the VAT total as a separate item. Is this not close enough to what you're after?

Mike

[abruzzi]

This seems a bit of an odd request.

1. VAT isn't optional so why make it an option to display it or not?

2. the standard VAT setup means the cart and checkout will display the product prices and sub-total without VAT and then list the VAT total as a separate item. Is this not close enough to what you're after?

Mike

Well, I sell medical equipment to people who are registered as disabled, which makes them exempt from paying tax for the goods I offer. However, sometimes I have clients who have to pay for VAT, and that's why I would like to give my customers an option to choose whether they need VAT on their order or not.

Do you think it's doable from within Actinic? or would I have to mess around with CGI scripts for checkout or would you rather script it in PHP? (that looks difficult as Actinic produces plain html sites...)

Thanks,
Albert

[Mike Hughes]

Ah right. There have been quite a few discussions on 'VAT exemption' in the past. A search will bring them up.

I believe this is normally applied at the checkout stage.

Mike

[leehack]

I've just had to do this for a client, where permanent disability can offer exemption, after much discussion, we ultimately went with a section of vat exempt products and a section of with vat and then had links on both products pointing to the other. On the exempt products we asked them to declare their exemption. That was the best solution we came up with.