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Thread: Rounding of VAT inclusive prices

  1. 10-13-2009, 03:41 AM #1
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    Norwegian law demands that all prices that the store show are VAT inclusive.

    Norway have several VAT rates 9%, 14% and 25% and have fun with us by changing the rates every other year.

    Norwegian customers are used to an demand all prices to be with two desimals, that always should be two zeros, like:
    NOK 98,00
    NOK 348,00
    NOK 10.000,00

    The problem is that aspdotnetstorefront errors in the rounding of Norwegian VAT rates, making the VAT incl prices looking silly and amateur like.

    Believe us; we have fiddled the net prices, but the prices comes out like this:

    NOK 98,00 shows up like NOK 97,99.

    This figures makes visitors think; "ahh, that shop must be out of order".

    We have put a lot of effort in the ML. We have translated the whole package to Norwegian, and thought that the time for harvest was to come now.
    The VAT rounding issue notoriously set us out of competition and makes our projects ridiculous.

    Please help.

    We run ML 8.0.1.2
  2. 10-13-2009, 01:02 PM #2
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    Are you saying that each price needs to be rounded to the nearest whole number? That is a bit different than a rounding error in vat... The cart was not designed to round to whole numbers. That is a bit of a locale-specific requirement.
  3. 10-14-2009, 01:29 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by AspDotNetStorefront - Dan View Post
    Are you saying that each price needs to be rounded to the nearest whole number? That is a bit different than a rounding error in vat... The cart was not designed to round to whole numbers. That is a bit of a locale-specific requirement.
    No, we don't expect any automatic rounding of the prices.

    What we want is that the VAT is calculated right, so when we enter a VAT exclusive price, the price inc VAT is displayed without an error that makes it a row of decimales.

    Millions of products have a 98.00 inc VAT price tag in Norway.
    VAT on the items are 14%.

    How do we manage to do this?

    Just like in any other market, there are some popular price tags in Norway (see my examples abowe).

    Please don't categorize this as a Norwegian locale problem. This is a huge problem for many non US.

    In many Eurpopean countries the law says that all prices must be presented for the customer with VAT included , and there is the challange for Aspdotnetstorefront.
  4. 11-24-2009, 02:54 AM #4
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    We are experencing the same problem. We are able to set the price to 3 decimals places in the admin system so that they display correctly on the front end.

    However, when the VAT is re-calculated in the shopping cart the prices are sometimes rounded up to a penny more so the customer is being charged more than the listed price on the website i.e. £10.01 instead of £10.00. Obviously this looks really unprofessional and I'm sure it is loosing potential sales.

    Do you have a timescale on when this bug is due to be fixed?