Hi all,

Adjustments can be for shipping, promotion (usually a discount when some
condition is met), and tax.

Shipping and promotion can be per item or once for the entire order.
Per-item adjustments are associated with an item, so if the item is changed
or removed, it's easy to update or remove corresponding adjustments.

Given we need per-item adjustments, per-order adjustments should be as
similar as possible, so I would argue should be adjustments and not items.
If there are no products, there's no order and there should be no
adjustments. I would only want to see a shipping product if my company is in
the shipping business. If I'm in some other industry, my customers would
never just order a shipping service from me.

I do think we should treat adjustments in a more general way, rather than
assuming that shipping, promotion and tax are all we'll ever encounter. So
any adjustment would have an adjustment type, we can create new ones if the
need ever arises, and we just communicate one collection of adjustments for
each item and one for the order, rather than splitting out promotion and
shipping.

Cheers

Paul Foxworthy


Jacques Le Roux wrote
> This means also some code changes, but yes maybe...
> 
> Jacques
> 
> From: "Adrian Crum" <

> adrian.crum@

> >
>>I have wondered that myself. It would make more sense if shipping was a 
>> non-stock product.
>> 
>> -Adrian
>> 
>> On 1/25/2013 2:21 AM, Michael Alleblas wrote:
>>> Why are shipping charges an adjustment as opposed to a service and added
>>> just like any other product? This would allow taxation to be calculated
>>> as
>>> simply as it is for products.
>>>
>>> I may be missing something here, and I presume it may pertain to the US
>>> taxation model. I am from Australia and we operate under the VAT/GST
>>> model.
>>>
>>> -Michael A
>>>
>>





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