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handling gst for australian stores

Submitted by joshua.howell on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 01:29
joshua.howell
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I'm in the process of setting up an online store to sell Australian handmade indigenous art but i am getting stuck on the issues of GST (Australian Goods & Services Tax). From what i know, only residents of Australia must pay GST. How would i get Ubercart or PayPal to test if the purchaser is an Australian resident and includes 10% or if they are from outside Australia and don't pay any extra? Are there any finished and working Australian Ubercart stores who have resolved this? Also what happens when other countries have different taxes and tax rates for example New Zealand with a 12.5% gst?

Thank you.
permalink #1 Tue, 04/22/2008 - 09:45
Ryan

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Hey Joshua, there's a two step process briefly outlined in the tax settings documentation. You have to enable the tax module, create a tax rule (like for your 10% GST), and then edit the workflow-ng configuration that creates so that the tax rule only gets applied when the shipping address country is Australia.

You can create a separate one for the New Zealand tax as well, and Ubercart will only apply the valid tax (i.e. the correct one for the country) to the order.

Let me know if you get stuck on any of those steps.

permalink #2 Tue, 04/22/2008 - 20:27
joshua.howell
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Thanks heaps Ryan, it worked perfectly. Do you happen to know if after a purchase has been made if the Simple Stock levels module will deduct 1 quantity of the product which has been sold? Because the Art is one of a kind, i want to make sure that after a person buys a piece that its quantity will drop to zero and it can no longer be added to carts so that the same piece of art cannot be sold twice. Also, would there be a way to change a products catalog entry (from 'paintings' to 'sold') after a product has been bought?
Thank you very much for the help.

permalink #3 Wed, 04/23/2008 - 03:12
72dpi

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Thanks for the comments Ryan.

hey Joshua, glad to see another Aussie using this mate.

I have setup the same, and yes, it will deduct, but, make sure you set the stock levels in both areas.
When editing the item, (under the product tab) ensure stock levels is set (in your case to 1), and tick the "track stock levels" checkbox.
Once saved, also make sure you set this same values in the "Stock" tab up the top. Set as "active", add values in there.
I am not too sure what the threshold is, so I just set as my minimum, but from all tests, i have had success.

Be sure to let us know how you are going with this one, and best wishes mate!

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permalink #4 Wed, 04/23/2008 - 21:04
joshua.howell
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Hi 72dpi,

Is your store using PayPal website payments standard? i thought i was reading somewhere on the forums that there currently is no way to have stock deducted if PayPal is being used, can you confirm this?

Ive done some testing (with PayPal) and the number of 'stock' in the stock tab is decreasing (stock module) but the 'number in stock' (simple stock levels) is NOT decreasing. I need this value to decrease so that the 'add to cart' is disabled. Should i start hacking modules or is there another way to get it working?

Also is there a way to stop a user from ordering more then 1 of an item?

Thank you.