Hey everybody -
I'm having some problems with taxes and shipping and am coming up
with solutions which seem very complicated to me, so I wanted to know
if anybody has a better way to address these:
1. I want to set pro-rate shipping to "N" and tax shipping to "Y",
so we tax shipping. It seems though that what happens is the
shipping charge is charged on the first invoice of an order, but the
tax is still pro-rated across the whole order. For example, if the
shipping is $10 and the tax is $1, and I ship half the order, then my
first invoice will have $10 of shipping and $0.50 of tax, and the
second invoice will have $0 of shipping but $0.50 of tax.
I think the problem is that the tax is not related to the shipping,
so InvoiceServices does not know whether to pro-rate it or not. It
seems the only solution is to add a relationship from OrderAdjustment
back to OrderAdjustment, so I can denote that a particular tax
adjustment is for another Shipping adjustment. This seems to be a
bit complicated. Does anybody know of a better solution?
2. The bigger problem is this: suppose I want to add new shipping
charges to my order as each shipment is shipped and have them
invoiced. Right now there does not seem to be a relationship which
can tell me which OrderAdjustment has already been invoiced, so I can
just invoice the new ones. We can of course calculate all invoiced
shipping charges and subtract it from the sum of all order shipping
charges, but that doesn't actually tell us which particular line item
of shipping charge to invoice--and hence we can't copy over the
description field. It seems that we would need an
OrderAdjustmentBilling similar to OrderItemBilling.
3. We want to invoice actual shipping charges. Should we be using
ShipmentRouteSegment's actualTransport?
Best Regards,
Si
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