Tax depending on main product

Hi,

I'm not clear. What happen then when you have some products with a tax rate of 19% and at the same time some products with a tax rate of 7% in your cart. What should be the tax rate of the shipping method ?

Hi,

In that case, it will be complex to do that.
When you create a manual shipping method via the menu System>Shipping methods, you have a "tax category" setting. So you can select ONE tax category for the shipping method.
Hence, the tax rate that will be use for the shipping method fees will depend on that tax category and not the tax categories of the products in the cart.
So having the shipping method fee taxed at the pro rata of the products in the cart is not possible with only one shipping method for the whole cart with the current system.
The only solution would be to create 2 warehouses, assign the products with a 7% tax rate to one warehouse and the ones with a 19% tax rate to the other one, and then create two sets of shipping methods, one for each warehouse, and then in each shipping method you would select the tax category for the corresponding tax rate.
That way, on the checkout, if you have some products at 7% and some at 19%, the shipping method selection will be split into two shipping methods selections, one for each warehouse, and thus the shipping fees will have the correct tax rate for each group of products.
The downside of that method is that in such case, you have 2 shipping fees added to the cart. If you're shipping methods use a percentage instead of a fixed price, or if they use the "shipping price per product" system then it's not a problem, but for fixed price shipping methods, that means that in such case, the shipping fees will be doubled.

Hi,

That's normal that you get two shipping methods. That's what I said in my previous message. That's the only solution which doesn't require any coding.

Hi,

In that case, you can develop a plugin of the group "hikashopshipping" and implement the trigger onShippingDisplay(&$order, &$rates, &$usable_methods, &$errors).
You need to configure the plugin to be the last one of the hikashopshipping group in your Joomla plugins manager. That way, it will be the last one to be triggered and the shipping methods will already be processed.
So you'll have all the shipping methods data used by the cart and the checkout in the array $usable_methods.
In there, you can recalculate the taxes of each shipping method based on the data of the cart in the object $order.
I think I would use the data in the $order->full_total->taxes array which contains the difference taxes applied to the cart.

Hi,

1. If you're not a developer and ant someone to develop such custom plugin for you, please request a quote to our developer partners with a link to this thread:
www.hikashop.com/home/our-partners.html

2. If you want to have a dynamic PER_UNIT, it's possible. We actually have a small tutorial on that here:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/106-faq.html#tran
in the "I sell packed products, how can I change "each" text in the product page ?" section.