Super California Sales Tax Add-on

[wendyandmilo]

To all my fellow Californians:
I've modified two add-ons: one from mzimmers (zc forum poster) and the Order History Export mod (found in the official add-ons section) to make it easier to apply and record CA sales tax. These are the current rates found on the BOE website effective Oct 2010. I haven't included a db change file for the tax rates change effective April 1 yet. If there is enough of a response, I'll post the file later.

The required files in this add-on apply sales tax according to the billing city and on the invoices/order details, the tax is labeled according to county (since the BOE needs to know which counties to send the money to). Your bookeeper will love you for this. Example: Order from Granada Hills, CA --> Los Angeles County CA 9.75% Tax: $xx.xx on the tax line in the order.

The optional files are to export the following information into an excel spreadsheet: order #, date, customer name, address, county and rate, subtotal, tax, shipping and total. The possibilities for this are endless. You could easily sort the lines by alphabetizing the "County" column then use a function to total up how much tax was paid. Again, a bookeeper's heaven.

There are no core file modifications, but a new table will be added to your database.

**KNOWN BUGS**
1. In Super Orders 3.0, the tax does not get listed in the horizontal column of order details/invoice, however it is still in the vertical column with subtotal and shipping charges.
2. The same issue is found during checkout and in the customer’s account details. However, this is fixed by taking out a few lines of code. If this is an issue for you (ie you only tax in CA), let me know and I'll post the solution here.
3. The Export History page does *not* mark which orders have previously been downloaded; for the moment, simply take note of which order you left off with on the last download. This is my highest priority to fix.
4. The Export History exports all orders, not just CA. Not sure if this is a good thing or just annoying.

I hope to have time to work on the bugs soon, but since it does work and does the job just fine, I thought I'd post it here in case someone else wanted it in the meantime.

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This has only been tested with ZC 1.3.9h. I have no reason to believe that it won't work in older versions, but if there are issues, post them here and I'll try to help. Y'all can be the guinea pigs :)
This also works with the Tax Exempt Add-on.

Help yourself and let me know about issues!