Re: Different Tax levels

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16304
interpreted = N
texte = >Here, in Italy, we have different tax percentage depending on the kind of product: i.e., hardware is >20% (yes, 20!), software or books 16% or less (avoid any comment, thank you!). >So I need to use a custom variable and to add a lot of calculations to manage taxes.One way would be to pre-compute the tax and add it into the price of the products in your database. So everything is already taxed before you add it to the cart.You could also change the price formula (in formulas.db) to increase the price of the product as you add it to the cart, based on the product category.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Different Tax levels (Grant Hulbert 1998)
  2. Re: Different Tax levels (Simon Buchanan 1998)
  3. Different Tax levels (Filippo@znort.it (Filippo Bellotti) 1998)
>Here, in Italy, we have different tax percentage depending on the kind of product: i.e., hardware is >20% (yes, 20!), software or books 16% or less (avoid any comment, thank you!). >So I need to use a custom variable and to add a lot of calculations to manage taxes.One way would be to pre-compute the tax and add it into the price of the products in your database. So everything is already taxed before you add it to the cart.You could also change the price formula (in formulas.db) to increase the price of the product as you add it to the cart, based on the product category.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Grant Hulbert

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