Gurnsey and Jersey

[alexrpaul]

There is no country for Gurnsey and Jersey.

They don't pay VAT and they have their own packing costs (normal UK prices for packet post and £19.10 for any parcelforce delivery). Is there any way to add a country or modify an existing country so that I can make a unique packing and tax system for them?

Cheers,

Alex Paul

[Infolink]

Yep just edit the countries list - its not they have a seperate tax system, it's just a non VAT area.
What you need to do for these is as follows;

Nil VAT
Set up a Country - Channel Islands is the normal term!
Set up a shipping zone for this as per your couriers pricings


Phil

[alexrpaul]

Thanks for the info however, I may be overlooking the obvious but how do you Add a country?
I have tried both advanced-locations and business settings but can't see anything.

Alex

[Infolink]

Hi,
Just had a look in the V6 that I'm currently working on and I must admit it does not seem obvious!
In V3 there used to be a method of doing it within the shipping area -
I would probably just open the main database in Access and add it directly in there - that is my generic way of doing things when I can't see the obvious answer!

Phil

[alexrpaul]

Sad to say that I don't have access!!!

There must be a way to do it through Actinic surely not everybody can be excluding the poor old Channel Islands!!

[Infolink]

OK- I took a proper look and saw how to do it within actinic now!

Go to advanced | locations
see in the top corner of the box next to where it says countries there is a little + sign - click on that and it will add a field at the bottom of the list.
The valid formats col should be the same as the UK
choose a country code that is not used - CI is used already

that should work,
Its a bit hidden as to how to get into that though Actinic!

Phil

[alexrpaul]

Thanks. I haven't had to play around wit the settings for a year or so and I completely overlooked the plus.

Alex

[jxm28788]

Yep just edit the countries list - its not they have a seperate tax system, it's just a non VAT area.
What you need to do for these is as follows;

Nil VAT
Set up a Country - Channel Islands is the normal term!
Set up a shipping zone for this as per your couriers pricings

Where do you set the new country to be nil vat? Can this be done with the 'simple vat' option set?