Any help on this would be much appreciated!
With the beginning of our 2010 season sales, we changed the way we calculate our GST and PST. We used to apply individual price maps with the tax amounts and this year we are now using fees to calculate both taxes.
With the inevitable change to HST mid-way through our season, we have encountered an issue that we are unsure of the best way to deal with it.
Any ticket purchased right now for our 2010 season will be sold with a GST amount of 5%. After a certain date, that will change to an HST of 13%.
The issue we have is with exchanges - when the change is made, the current GST fee will be inactivated and the HST fee will be in effect. When you return a ticket after the change, it will return with the new HST rather than the old GST.
What are our options to return tickets at the old GST fee and only charge the new HST fee on any new tickets purchased in the order?
Creating new price types was the way that we handled the GST changes all the time. We had an entirely new set of prices for the new taxed tickets. The Base was identical, but the fees were different. We were mapping then too, but that concept should still work with a fee'd structure.
Was it an UGLY solution: YES / Did it work: YEP
Man...I hope Manitoba doesn't go with the HST.
Thanks Jennifer - I was afraid this was going to be the answer, and considering we use a mulititude of price types this is not going to be easy AT ALL.
I'm now wondering if it would be less of a mess if we just created new MOS' instead of price types? Thoughts?
Yeah...it sucks either way doesn't it?
MOS didn't work out for us because because if season ticket exchanges. We would have had to had multiple MOS as well as price types because when upgrading they had to be taxed at the rate they were purchased at.
PAIN IN THE BUTT!