nopCommerce 1.8 roadmap. Let's discuss.

...With regards to the VAT, I see you've wired it in to the tax manager itself rather than use a seperate provider which is fine...
...the way I did this was to add a VAT rate to the tax category and make sure each product is assigned a tax category...
...most products in a cart will be at standard rate but some may be zero rate (in the UK that includes common items such as books). There's no certainty that we can apply a fixed 17.5% to the entire cart. Because of this it may actually be better to use the provider I submitted...

I see you're calling the web service to check the VAT number each time there is a purchase

but I liked as store admin the ability to be able to accept or reject a number and manually check

Actually I can't see any UI infrastructure for VAT so maybe you didn't get round to that yet.

Could you please elaborate in what prospective you are going to increase forum functionality ?  By adding what kind of features ?

Is multistore still a ways off ? `
How about a web service project ?

kingboyk wrote:
Thanks again for this contribution. But in this case you're limited to the certain provider. nopCommerce implementation allows you to use any tax rate provider that you want.

A store owner can manually enable/disable VAT number

We've prepared a roadmap for the next version of nopCommerce (1.80). It contains features/options that were in-demand from a lot fo people. Estimate release time - the beginning of September.

already implemented:
- RMA (return management)
- The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
- Display all applied tax rates (e.g. 7%, 15%) on shopping cart and order details page (configurable)
- "Estimate shipping" option on shopping cart page
- Allow store owner to view all online customers
- Use ASP.NET Chart control for reports
- Backorder support
- Option to display to customers the quantity of a particular product which is in stock
- Physical gift card support
- Allow store owner to view all existing shopping carts on a single page
- Allow store owner to manage newsletter subscription list
- Allow store owner to import subscriber list
- New discount requirement - applies if customer has previously spent x.xx amount
- New checkout/product attribute control type - DatePicker
- Allow store owner to create password protected pages (password potected topics)
- SMS provider model and new email SMS provider (Verizon)
- Allow store owner to submit froogle feed via FTP
- Allow store owner to enable currency rate auto updating
- Allow store owner to select preferred exchange rate provider
- Allow users to manage their forum subscriptions
- Allow store owner to disable URL ReWriting
- A lot of other minor enhancements

still working on:
- Allow store owner to create an order via admin panel
- Partial refund support
- Google Analytics integration
- Better CMS support
- Improve one-page checkout to work without postbacks
- Increased forum functionality
- More pluggable architecture
- Performance optimization

Why would you want to use a different provider if you're in the EU and charging VAT Andrei?!

So far as I know, and I'm happy to be proven wrong, none of the NopCommerce tax providers can do that

Is there a web service button in the admin area so the admin can check the web service results manually?

Andrei could you please create a work item (in codeplex) for increasing blog functionality so that we all can vote for this feature and according to the requirement/demand this feature can be added in 1.8 version?