Hi Jacques, since my goal was to talk directly to the Ofbiz developers and my question is about Ofbiz development, I thought that this would be the appropriate mailing list. However, I will repost my issue in the user ML then.
Regards, Benni jacques.le.roux wrote: > > Please use rather user ML for such questions, see why here : > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Mailing+Lists#MailingLists-DeveloperList:dev@ofbiz.apache.org > > Thanks > > Jacques > > From: "benni23" <b.diedrich...@googlemail.com> >> >> Hi, >> >> I am writing to this list because I am searching for help with the >> implementation of valid VAT handling in Ofbiz according to German >> requirements. >> I found that Ofbiz (I use the latest version in the trunk) can be >> configured >> to show prices including VAT but as far as I can tell there are open >> issues >> in the current implementation. >> >> 1. The ecommerce webapp shows different prices in the different screens >> (microcart, minicart, showcart and at the end of the ordering process). I >> also found a post that price calculation with included VAT does not work >> for >> configurable items >> (http://www.nabble.com/Creating-price-rules-for-a-country-with-VAT-value-td21954459.html#a22005169) >> 2. If the order contains products with different VAT rates, the amount of >> each rate needs to be shown separately and rounding should only be done >> on >> this group level and not on item basis >> 3. Discounts granted to the subtotal of the order miss to adjust VAT >> amount >> accordingly. Currently they are applied to the net subtotal (which would >> be >> OK, I guess, as long as the VAT would be recalculated based on the >> discounted net price) and nothing more is done. So the final amount of >> VAT >> does not comply to the actual net value of the order (but to the >> undiscounted net value instead) >> >> So, the first point merely requires consistent use of the pricing methods >> of >> the shopping cart in the templates and should not require a change in the >> actual business logic. >> For the second point I have currently no idea as I did not take a look >> into >> the related entities and/or invoice generation. >> Regarding the third point, I think one might either recalculate the tax >> in >> the last step of the ordering process or include such a discount on the >> subtotal in the product price calculation. I don't know which is the >> better >> choice or if another option might even be better? >> >> Long story short. I am willing to invest some time in implementing the >> required changes and contribute back to the community but I need some >> feedback on these issues. Maybe even someone is already working on such >> an >> implementation (I've seen quite some posts on this issue)? My employer is >> also willing to pay for some professional assistance in this subject. >> >> I hope to receive some feedback from you and looking forward to leverage >> the >> capabilities of Ofbiz :) >> >> Regards, >> Benjamin >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Help-for-implementation-of-VAT-for-Germany-tp22604363p22604363.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-for-implementation-of-VAT-for-Germany-tp22604363p22617120.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
