VAT calculation

Stintfang · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 4

Hi, I purchased Digistore yesterday.

after overcoming the ioncube problem by putting the ioncube loader in the root of the site I stumbled into some minor bugs regarding the language.
I translated the english.digistore.php into german and saved it as german.digistore.php and added the according xml-file. Unfortunately when switching to german the backend was in German while the frontend stayed english.

Additionally I learned that some items of the modules are not included in the language file. These are encoded into the mod-files which is a bit of annoying. e.G. the table for the cart, the "view my licences" etc. I had to edit these php-files by hand.

My biggest problem is the following: When I enter an amount of e.g. 29.99 (including VAT) and have defined VAT of 19% the store displays 29.99€ PLUS 19%, resulting in €35.69
And then - when you go to paypal to purchase the item it displays €29.99 again.

It should be possible in the backend to enter brutto prices and the shopping cart only displays the amount and the included VAT.

regards
Robert Madsen

merav · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I will ask our programmers to look into these problems and fix them for the next version.

Robbo · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 47

Hi,
what is brutto prices please?

Stintfang · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 4

Robbo · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 47

No, thats not how it works in a business.
you enter into the system, the price of the product. not the price including VAT.
when you present to the user, you show them the price, and the vat seperately.
you can't calculate it acurately the reverse way.

If when creating a product, you enter the price as 21.99 inc 13% vat... go and calculate the VAT for me.
now, enter a product that costs 19Euro and set a store wide VAT of 13% and you can. because its a store config setting of 13%
Not only does the current method allow you to seperate them, it also allows some companies to purchase tax free (future feature)

So, in summary, the current method is correct.

Stintfang · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 4

Robbo · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 47

I beleive this bug has already been fixed.
If not. please create a support ticket.
Please ensure you're using the latest version of DigiStore when checking.

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