Remove the Gross Price from Admin

[lidlchris]

I have to admit, i agree with my client on this one. The Gross price is just confusing as it goes against what anyone things when they think of gross or net price. So my client would like me to remove it from the admin. Is there a setting to do this or do i have to modify a file?

[carlwhat]

there does not look to be a setting for it...

i think the easiest/simplest way to handle it would be to add the class "hidden" to the collect_info.php

          <tr bgcolor="#ebebff">
            <td class="main hidden"><?php echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_PRICE_GROSS; ?></td>
            <td class="main hidden"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('products_price_gross', $pInfo->products_price, 'OnKeyUp="updateNet()"'); ?></td>
          </tr>

good luck.

[lidlchris]

there does not look to be a setting for it...

i think the easiest/simplest way to handle it would be to add the class "hidden" to the collect_info.php

          <tr bgcolor="#ebebff">
            <td class="main hidden"><?php echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_PRICE_GROSS; ?></td>
            <td class="main hidden"><?php echo zen_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '24', '15') . '##' . zen_draw_input_field('products_price_gross', $pInfo->products_price, 'OnKeyUp="updateNet()"'); ?></td>
          </tr>

good luck.

yes that works.. i also commented out the coding and that worked also. thanks.

[carlwhat]

what coding?

[lidlchris]

what coding?

i commented out the entire table row with <!-- -->

[carlwhat]

yeah, i would do some testing prior to doing that.....

i'm not sure which price is getting stored, and if ZC is storing the gross price, your code may now store that price as 0.

you would have to explore further...

just my 2c.

good luck

[lidlchris]

thanks.

[DrByte]

Or you could just rename "gross" to "base price" and "net" to "after-tax price".

But keep in mind that Zen Cart (actually osCommerce) was architected on gross only. That's all it stores.
The display of "net" or "tax in" price is really only a helper to allow tax-included stores to enter an after-tax price and auto-calculate the base/gross price to store in the db.

And a downside of displaying the "net"/after-tax field is that it only works based on the tax rate of the store's zone, and doesn't consider any other tax zones .... such as various states having different tax rates.

So, while your client may only think of tax one way, there are hundreds of other ways tax could be rendered if their store was selling in a different geographic area, and then those fields would have new meanings than you and they can see at this moment.