Marking Taxed items with * on receipt

[pwamm]

I have set up my receipt print template with VAT tax totals and its working fine - thanks to tutorials from here. BUT I cant find anywhere to show how I add a * before each item on the bill to show which is taxed at VAT and which has zero VAT rate. I have set up my VAT(20%) as a tax template and mapped to certain products - that works fine - tax totals are all correct.

Any help appreciated!

[RickH]

You could setup a custom product tag for VAT included, this would show in the product setup as a field called VAT included. You would then just enter the * symbol

In your tocket ticket before where your order tag is you could put { ITEM TAG:VAT Included } this would then print a * whenever an order added has that * symbol in the VAT Included field in the product setup screen

Think you could also use { ITEM TAG: VAT Included=* } that way if you have different taxes on different products you could use different symbols in that same field

[pwamm]

Thanks - I have tried this out already. It does work but it means that I have to tag each product individually rather than using the handy mapping feature in the tax template and setting it up for whole groups of products at once. I had thought of using an order tag as this seems to use a mapping feature - may make thinks easier?

[emre]

We have these two tags on order level

I think you can use them to setup a conditional expression to print * for specific tag values.

[markjw]

You can just show the VAT totals at the bottom. I discussed this before here

VAT Receipt for UK

Question for those using SambaPOS in the UK @JTRTech, RickH etc… How are you doing a proper VAT receipt? I know there is 2 ways that either you can not mention the VAT then you have to specify “This is not a VAT receipt” on it, or show the VAT. I know for B2B businesses you generally quote excluding VAT prices then show VAT at the end before the total, that is straightforward. I am more interested in B2C examples, where typically for B2C type businesses I think for giving a VAT receipt that …

Note you need to add another tax template for 0% VAT, otherwise you can’t account for it properly. However there was a bug that doesn’t allow you to set the rate to 0 in tax template, it got fixed in 5.1.61 which is currently in beta but will be released soon.

For showing the * on order lines, you can use {ORDER TAX RATE:X} and {ORDER TAX TEMPLATE NAMES} along with a conditional expression.

[markjw]

Insert on order line in printer template

[=TN('{ORDER TAX RATE:20% VAT}') > 0 ? '*' : '']

Replace “20% VAT” with the name of your tax template for 20% VAT.

Result:

Toasted Bagel Jam *                         1.50
Toast and Jam *                             1.50
Test Zero VAT                              10.00
Bacon and Tomato *                          3.49

[pwamm]

Thanks! That’s just what I wanted… your help much appreciated.

[Chris_Cascun]

Hi markjw,

can this be done in v4 please?

thanks
chris

[Jesse]

No it is only supported in v5 since V4 does not have the jscript support.