RE: [mv] Computing Sales Tax on County Basis

[Ken Berland <ken@hero.com>]

I agree.  In a related question, how do you do error checking on a
non-checkout page?

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Christopher Thompson wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "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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