This isn't built in or special anywhere, you just have to setup the data in
many places for it. Also, this system is setup to be multi-organizational so
you could technically have many of these company parties in the system (each
with its own store, accounting settings, etc, etc).
Hence the recommendation to use the demo data... or sift through ALL of it and
understand it all.
-David
Vince Clark wrote:
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?
