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Internationalization question

Submitted by jimi089 on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 10:43
jimi089
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Greetings Ubercarters,

I have a new Ubercart project in the works that I believe has an interesting set of requirements.

There is a product that is being sold, and there will be two different facilities fulfilling the orders, one in the US, and one in the UK.

1) Is it easy/possible to make it so UK orders are sent to the UK fulfillment center while the US orders go to the US fulfillment? Could workflow-ng handle this kind of task?

2) I've never done anything related to international/European orders. What should I know before I tackle this? Will I have to deal with the VAT? Any other changes I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance for your help! This is going to be a pretty high profile Ubercart site with some good press so hopefully it will help raise the profile of Ubercart as well.

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permalink #1 Mon, 06/23/2008 - 10:52
Ryan

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Depending on how you need to export the orders, I don't see any reason why you can't add a configuration that checks the order's delivery country and take separate action.

As for VAT, you might start in this thread where a lot of the details are covered. I kinda dropped the ball on keeping momentum behind it, but I intend to revisit VAT in core as soon as it's feasible.

permalink #2 Fri, 06/27/2008 - 20:04
jimi089
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Thanks for your reply and help Ryan! This kind of help from the core developers is part of what makes Ubercart such a great project.