Ubercart

Thanks for the replies, I'd be VERY interested in helping or testing out your code TR. Any idea on timeframe till you are ready to release (a week? a month?).

Yes, I have it, thanks. That's what I'm using.

They make it sound like they're so helpful, and are giving you all the tools you need to comply with the law. What they aren't telling you is that a prototype of the web service wasn't released until 6/13/08 - just two weeks before the new calculations became mandatory under the law. And the minimal documentation you link to wasn't even available until after the deadline.

This despite the fact that they've had several years to plan for the change. And the fact that many others, including me, have been complaining since the fall by phone, by e-mail, and by snail mail, begging for a web service, and begging for it to be released well ahead of the deadline so we would have time to implement before the law changed.

By they time they announced the web service, my time was fully committed to a job, so I could not get the Ubercart module finished in the two weeks before the deadline. I've hacked it into my system in the meantime, and I hope to be able to find some time before the end of this month to finish it off.

Can you tell I'm a little annoyed? Judging from last year's sales, the change in the tax law is going to change the amount I have to remit to the state by only a few hundred dollars a year (most of my business is out-of-state, and the rate differences under the new system are measured in tenths of a percent). Yet it's costing me thousands of dollars in billable time to implement this properly, and they're making me drop everything to do it at the last minute due to their poor planning.

Ironically, the change will *decrease* the amount of tax I have to collect, because I'm located in the highest-taxed location in the state. Under the old rules, I collected this high tax based on my location, under the new rules, I collect tax based on the customer's location, which is always an equal or lower rate.