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Sales Tax Calculation in eCart 6

Thread began 8/04/2014 7:19 am by joerg431091 | Last modified 8/04/2014 11:35 am by Jason Byrnes | 2999 views | 9 replies |

joerg431091

Sales Tax Calculation in eCart 6

Hi,

I have problems with eCart6 calculating / displaying sales tax, in our case in North Carolina.

Here is what I have in the Tax Tab (eCart Merchandising Rule) of the eCart object:

Taxable total > 0
AND If Session variable eCartCheckoutForm_state_province == NC

(image attached)

The rule in my cart_PHP.php is:


function WAEC_TTC_SalesTax() {
$totalTax = 0;
if (true && (($this->GetTaxableTotal() > 0) && ((isset($_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_state_province'])?$_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_state_province']:"") == "NC"))) {
$totalTax += ($this->GetTaxableTotal() * 0.0725);//Result
}
return WA_eCart_FormatNumber($totalTax, $this->ForceDecimalsC, $this->DecimalPlacesC);
}


Any ideas what I might doing wrong here?

Thanks a lot.

Joerg

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

perhaps you are using the wrong session name.


on the confirm page, add the following code in the body to write the session contents to the page and identify the session name fro the state:

<pre><?php @session_start(); var_dump($_SESSION); ?></pre>
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joerg431091

Thanks for your response Jason.

I added the code and here is the result on the page:

array(2) {
["TTC_Items"]=>
string(323) "1028|WAECART|Nespresso Vertuo Machine Black|WAECART||WAECART|Nespresso_Vertuo_Black_Single_120x100.jpg|WAECART|13|WAECART|1|WAECART|269.1|WAECART|Black|WAECART|8.32" x 11.91" x 11.93"|WAECART|0|WAECART|GCA1-US-BK-NE|WAECART|140716569197|WAECART|13|WAECART|269.1|WAECART|1 Nespresso Vertuo Machine Black (1028)|WAECART|269.1"
["WAEC_ContinueRedirect"]=>
string(35) "/products_detail.php?ProductID=1028"
}

I am not sure whether I read this correctly. Where can I see the session name?

Thanks for your help.

Joerg

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

it doesn't look like you have gone through the checkout page yet,

tax can not be calculated till you go through the checkout page to set the billing state. tax will be calculated on the confirm page.

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joerg431091

I know. There is no tax calculation after I set the billing state. The tax usually appears after entering all billing and shipping information in the checkout.php page where you enter the credit card information and submit the order. But no Tax is calculated - not even in the checkout_success.php page.

The system somehow seem to recognize the information in the eCart object because once I remove the tax rule from the eCart object = tax is calculated regardless of state. It is just once I enter the state (NC) as described above that no tax is calculated at all.

Here again is the result of the dump session code that you asked me to put into the confirm.php page. Can you identify the session value in this result?

array(2) {
["TTC_Items"]=>
string(286) "763|WAECART|Rodeo Cow Leather Collar|WAECART||WAECART|Karlie_09308_120x100.jpg|WAECART|0.2|WAECART|1|WAECART|33.95|WAECART|Black / Cognac|WAECART|17.25" x 1.00"|WAECART|0|WAECART|09307|WAECART|140716856922|WAECART|0.2|WAECART|33.95|WAECART|1 Rodeo Cow Leather Collar (763)|WAECART|33.95"
["WAEC_ContinueRedirect"]=>
string(34) "/products_detail.php?ProductID=763"
}

Thx.

Joerg

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

I'll need to troubleshoot directly, see the private message section.

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joerg431091

Thanks Jason - please see PM

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the correct session is:

$_SESSION['WASF_CheckoutWizard_Basic_Default']['State']


so change this line:
if (true && (($this->GetTaxableTotal() > 0) && ((isset($_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_state_province'])?$_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_state_province']:"") == "NC"))) {

to:
if (true && (($this->GetTaxableTotal() > 0) && ((isset($_SESSION['WASF_CheckoutWizard_Basic_Default']['State'])?$_SESSION['WASF_CheckoutWizard_Basic_Default']['State']:"") == "NC"))) {

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joerg431091

That did it. Thank you so much. I changed the checkout form at one point in the past and did not consider this.

Thanks a lot and have a great day.

Best,
Joerg

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you're welcome.

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