[ic] Shipping woes

[Jamie Neil]

Joachim Schubert wrote:
>
> Jamie Neil wrote:
>
> > Just when I think I've got this thing sussed, it frustrates me again :(
> >
> > I've got a Usertag which adds VAT onto all the displayed prices in my
> > catalog (it's a consumer oriented site), and I can wrap it
> around just about
> > any tag I want (price, total etc.) by using the contained tag's noformat
> > option.
> >
> > However I can't use it on tags which provide more complex
> output like the
> > shipping tag when it is used to generate an options list. This
> means that
> > when the customer gets to the checkout, the shipping entry in the basket
> > says "£10" (using the VAT tag), but the select box for changing
> the shipping
> > says "£8.51" for the same shipping type.
> >
> You can format the shipping tag [shipping format="...." ....]
> See: http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=ictags04.69

I tried that. You can format the options so it doesn't display the price at
all, but I don't think you can embed tags into the format which are
calculated _after_ the shipping cost and so adjust it's value (I did try
though).

Jamie

>
> > Short of writing my own shipping tag or embedding a fair chunk
> of code in
> > the shipping page, can anyone think of a simple solution that I
> might have
> > missed?
> >
> > Maybe it would be useful to include the option to display
> prices with tax in
> > the relevent system tags (price, shipping, total etc.)? Or am I alone in
> > needing this kind of functionality?
> >
> Not at all! That would be a very nice feature!
>
>
> > Jamie Neil
> > Versado I.T. Services Ltd.
> >
> Regards,
> Joachim Schubert
>
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