David I've looked at this resource. The section "Business Setup Process" seems to assume that demo data was loaded. It suggests that you must use a companyId of "Company" to properly set up the "company that owns or is running the system."
We started from scratch and only loaded seed data, no demo data. Here is the fundamental question: How does the system know what Party "owns or is running the system." David E Jones wrote: > > Here's the best source for this info: > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBENDUSER/Apache+OFBiz+Business+Setup+Guide > > > If you are looking for anything on these topics that is not covered > there then just let us know. > > -David > > > Vince Clark wrote: >> I'm having trouble understanding how to properly set up sales taxes. Two >> areas of misunderstanding: >> >> 1) Company setup >> >> We have set up a production instance and created a company. The ID >> defaulted to 10000. The demo data uses "Company" as the system company >> id and I have seen reference to the fact that this company id is >> sometimes hardcoded. >> >> I have also seen reference to a file called >> AccountingProperties.properties where there is a setting for >> accounting.company.partyId. >> http://www.neogia.org/Scratch_deployment_procedure_-_part_II >> >> However, this appears to based on an old version as I cannot find that >> file in the source. As far as I can tell the current functionality can >> determine everything it needs based on the Company and tax authorities >> being set up properly. No settings in properties files or hardcoded >> values are necessary. >> >> 2) Sales Tax determination >> The setup seems to tie everything by Geography. Is the assessment of >> sales tax based on the state of the customer and a lookup to the proper >> tax authority? If it is an out of state purchase, ie., the customer is >> in a different state than the Company is it automatically not taxed? >> >> Also, is state as granular as OFBiz is currently capable of? What about >> local tax authorities like city or county? -- Vince Clark Global Era The freedom of open source. (303) 493-6723 (303) 455-2409 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.globalera.com
