RE: [mv] Computing Sales Tax on County Basis

["Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>]

Sounds like you might want to split up your checkout into several pages.
It is a little tricky to make a multi-page checkout, but not that
difficult.

[opinion 2cents=yes]
I wish the simple demo showed at least a 3 page checkout (p1-address,
p2-shipping, p3-credit card), because this eliminates the problem of not
having a shipping address when dealing with calculating shipping. Most of
the big ecommerce sites use 5-7 pages these days. It eliminates scrolling
and simplifies entering and validating the data. The all-in-one checkout
is conceptually simpler on the implementation side, but drives many
customers crazy.
[/opinion]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Eric Paul
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:38 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Cc: ct@arborinternet.com
> Subject: RE: [mv] Computing Sales Tax on County Basis
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Eric Paul
> <epaul@spellbook.net>     ******
>
> I did that, and I created three files.
>
> state.asc - contains a list of US state abbrevs
> county.asc - contains a list of counties in New York
> salestax.asc - contains all the counties with proper tax rates
>
> Then I put in two selects in my checkout form.  One for the
> state.  Then I
> put in an [if value state ~= /NY/] statement that either puts
> up a select
> for the counties or puts in a hidden input that sets the county
> to NONE.  I
> also set both selects to OnChange="this.form.submit()" The
> problem I have
> is when I first select New York as a state, I get the first
> county up, but
> the salestax is still 0.  Then if I select a county, everything
> is ok.  But
> after that, if I select a new state, the county select
> disappears, but the
> salestax stays at whatever the previous value was until I update it
> again.  Is there any way that I don't have to update every
> time?  I thought
> that's what the OnChange would do for me, but it doesn't work for state
> changing.
>
> I tried to modify the taxrate javascript at the top of the
> "simple demo"
> order form, but it only likes the flytax-type tax rates.  Since I'm not
> using flytax I can't make the java work either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> At 10:55 AM 12/16/99 , you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson"
> ><ct@arborinternet.com>     ******
> >
> >Check the file products/salestax.asc and search the docs about it. It
> >allows you to calculate salestax by state or zip code.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Eric Paul
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:17 PM
> > > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > > Subject: [mv] Computing Sales Tax on County Basis
> > >
> > >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from Eric Paul
> > > <epaul@spellbook.net>     ******
> > >
> > > My client is in New York.  New York sales tax varies by
> county, and the
> > > client needs to know which county the customer is from so they
> > > know which
> > > county to send the tax checks to.  I know how to set minivend
> > > up to compute
> > > fixed tax rate per state, but how can I set it up to compute on
> > > another field?
> > >
> > > What I'd really like to do is have the checkout form come
> up with some
> > > drop-down boxes if you pick New York state asking which
> county you are
> > > in.  Then it grabs the right tax rate.  The HTML coding seems pretty
> > > straightforward, but I'm not sure how to do the tax part.
> Anyone else
> > > battled this problem already?
> > >
> > > Eric
> > > ---
> > > Eric Paul
> > > SpellBook Systems
> > > http://www.spellbook.net
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