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RE: [mv] Computing Sales Tax on County Basis
Another way around this, though admittedly it is not the best for
everybody, is to allow users to browse merchanidse to their hearts content,
but require them to login (creating a new account if they are a new
customer) before filling a cart or placing an order. With the use of a
little form validation during the account setup process, you know that
you'll have required info *before* they get to the checkout page.
- Ed L.
>****** 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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