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Add Tax Information Form Fields:
Tax Country The country this tax rate will be applied to, determined by either the
vendor or the purchaser's shipping address.
Tax State or Region The State or Region this tax rate will be applied to. If there is no region
listed for the country you are configuring a tax rate for, select the "Non-
USA / Non-Canadian / Not Listed" option.
If you don't need a state, but need more than one Tax Rate for a country,
just select some "dummy" state for each Tax Rate for that country.
Tax Rate Example: 0.0825
The tax rate, as a decimal value. For example, 8.25% would be entered
as 0.0825
Click on the "Save" icon to add your new Tax Rate information.
5.11. Shipping Modules
5.11.1. Standard Shipping
It is wise first of all to think about how you will charge for postage and packing. The easiest way is
to have a fixed shipping price for all of your products, but this is not always practical – especially if
your products vary greatly in size and/or weight.
Not only do you need to think about shipping rates, but also shipping methods. Will you offer more
than one shipping method – eg. next day delivery as well as standard? DHL as well as Royal Mail?
Even if you decide to only use one company for all of your shipping, you still need to tell VirtueMart
about it. To set up a new ‘shipper’, select ‘Create Shipper’ from the ‘Shipping’ menu. This takes you
to shipper editor.
The Shipper Editor
List order is just a numeric value which is used to sort the shipper names, so enter 1 for the shipper
that you want to be listed 1st, 2 for the one you want to be listed 2nd, etc.
When you have added the shipping companies you want to use, you need to configure the shipping
rates. You can set up different rates for different service levels (eg. next day, two day, first class etc.)