[ic] Adding Zip Codes for Tax

Chad Wittrock interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Dec 5 09:02:01 2001


Thanks a lot Mike!!! I really appreciate you helping me out with this! It
works great!

Chad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.COM
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.COM]On Behalf Of Mike
> Heins
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.COM
> Subject: Re: [ic] Adding Zip Codes for Tax
>
>
> Quoting Chad Wittrock (Chad.Wittrock@uni.edu):
> > I am using zip as the field to tax an order on. I was entering
> the zips that
> > I want to tax into the admin ui, but I noticed that it only
> appears to keep
> > the last 25. I looked in variables.txt and it only has the last
> 25 I entered
> > also. Why is this? I didn't notice until after I had entered
> roughly 100 zip
> > codes. Is there some tag I need to change to allow for more tax
> rates? Also,
> > is there an easier way to enter this info into the
> varibles.gdbm? I am not
> > familiar with this database (the default that interchange comes with).
> >
> > Any help on either of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
>
> That particular method of taxing is designed for only a limited number
> of things, not hundreds of zip codes.
>
> You want to add zips to your salestax.asc file, then change SalesTax
> in catalog.cfg to
>
> 	SalesTax  zip state
>
> Your salestax.asc would look something like:
>
> default	[fly-tax]
> 00011	.0735
> 00012	.0755
> 00013	.0735
>
> etc.
>
> If the zip is not in salestax.asc, it will fall through to state.
> You can either put the states there, or you can put the rest in
> the standard Variable, relying on the "default	[fly-tax]" setting
> in salestax.asc.
>
> The little JavaScript popup on the checkout page should be removed
> if you do this, it won't work like you want.
>
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