I am creating invoices via the API which typically have a number of line items. Xero occasionally calculates the total with 1p different to what I am expecting.
What makes this really strange is if I open up the invoice in Xero and click edit... Xero changes it's mind and calculates the total correctly. The problem seems to occur when the line item has a discount. I have a line item with unit price £2,120.44 with a 10% discount. In the created invoice Xero calculates the amount as £1,908.39 which is rounding down from 1908.396. If I click edit the amount changes to £1,908.40 which is rounding up as expected.
This seems to be a bug where it's behaving inconsistently :-(
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I have a retail website built in Shopify Plus that is fed by an ERP. A couple times a month at least, I have sale events where some (not all) items get varying levels of discounts (I'll call this my store-wide sale), but my ERP doesn't have the ability to schedule temporary price changes.
I also have unrelated discounts that happen at the item level outside the store-wide sale cycle, so the solution needs to be able these to the store-wide sale price for that item and choose the lower of the two.
I can manually change all my prices with immediate effect in the ERP to start the sale and then manually do it again to put them back to the way it was, but that's time consuming, and normally needs to happen outside business hours. If I change the price in Shopify, the ERP just over-writes them.
Is this possible? Is there a solution short of implementing a PIM that will allow me to schedule my price changes in this way?
I was thinking of potentially keeping my store-wide discounts in a metafield and/or a tag on each item and using a script to do the math, pick the best price, and change the price at the line level in cart and maybe Javascript to over-write price displayed on the PDP and PLP to show that same price.
I realised a lot of merchants needed this, so I built an app for this. I'm sure it will do exactly as you need.
https://apps.shopify.com/simple-simons-price-scheduler
If you need additional features, just submit a request via the contact form. I'm pretty quick to implement features if I feel they're beneficial.
I have a collection of items which has a 13% tax. So if you buy $1 in goods, your final charge would be $1.13 because of this tax.
I give users the option to return certain items while purchasing others (imagine returning the keg of beer while buying another).
The problem, however, is that the "return" (where I subtract $X from the checkout) affects the checkout pre tax. So if the total was $100, which is $113 after tax, my current code would deduct $50 pre-tax, which would affect the tax I need to collect.
Is it possible to have the items purchased + tax show in the checkout, and subtract the "returns" after the price plus tax is calculated?
I have looked at this link identifying a similar issue and people claiming they can solve it. The only solution provided by shopify was to pay $2000/month to get access to checkout.liquid where * maybe * I could solve the problem.
Unfortunately, your question is unclear. You have to understand how Shopify works to accomplish certain goals. One, you cannot mess with the pricing of goods or taxes. About the only thing you can offer customers are discount codes.
Anything that gets committed to checkout is out of your control. You cannot adjust anything in the checkout, with the exception being, Plus merchants can indeed script checkout, and even alter the Liquid.
Until you are more clear about what you are attempting, I suggest you ensure that whatever you are doing, the cart is fair game, do as you wish. Have the customer replace one item with another. Submit to checkout. Be done.
Sure, there are cheesy Apps that help fake things financially by using discount codes, but that is often a road to more problems than it is worth.
we have tried this but it did not work for us.
We then ended up disabling the tax altogether
The items were calculated inclusive of tax and we would then provide a tax invoice separately using API
When discount codes are applied to orders the way they are brought in in an order is a 2 field array, code and amount. Although, in the admin interface a Shopify user can choose whether or not the type of code is an absolute amount, percent, or free shipping.
In the api response is there a way to determine whether the code used was for free shipping or one of the others? This is causing issues with our sync because taxes are handled different in different locations for shipping costs compared to general order line items.
Thank you,
Brandon
Short answer: No, you can't tell the difference.
Long answer: Internally, free shipping codes are actually applied to items in the cart up to the value of the shipping method selected, and then the shipping amount is applied on top.
The upshot of this is that there is no difference between the three discount types as stored on Shopify. They're all just dollar amounts taken off the order subtotal. Therefore you can't tell whether the shipping was discounted because it never is.
In the UK some items have VAT charged on them while others don't. To import orders into our back office system we need to know whether tax was charged on particular items in the order. Ideally we'd also like to know how much tax was charged on each line item.
This information isn't shown in any of the example responses given in the online docs. Is it possible to get it via the API?
This is currently not available for individual line items, all that is available is the overall taxes charged. You could use this and taxable field on Product to attempt to divide the taxes charged.
I'm currently finishing up a fairly customized Zen Cart setup for a client and while overall the site is 99% functional when it comes to ordering, I'm having an issue on the checkout page where the customer is able to see the item totals and the sales tax, along with the grand total.
The issue however is that the grand total accounts for the shipping rate (as shown below the order form) however I'd like to also have it displayed above the sales tax line.
Does anyone know which files I'd need to access to edit the cosmetics of the checkout total?
Aside from that, I'm pretty sure I'd be able to plug in the custom values since I have the variable names on hand from coding the site till now.
Thanks very much in advance for any assistance,
The order in which the totals are displayed is determined by their sort order on the Admin >> Modules >> Order Totals page.
I've changed them this way a few times for clients, but you do need to be check that the tax calculations still work (there have been quite a few changes to recent versions to try to get that right in all cases).