3 Questions, 4 Glitches & 5 Suggestions
I'd probably start best with the glitches....
Glitch: 'On sale' not stored in orders.
When a product is on sale, it stores only the salesprice in the db. The original price, doesn't get stored in the [sf_ec_order_details] table. The [sf_ec_order_detail] table shows both the on-sale price in the [ttal] and the [price] fields. The [is_on_sale] is flagged with a '1' but nowhere does the discounted amount get stored or the original price.
Thank you Jochem for the suggestions and glitches. We greatly appreciate your time and feedback.
As you know there are many conditions to meet for U.S and Euro taxes (VAT). Eventually we will be integrating with 3rd party tax SAS applications, and many require different scenarios, EX: tax based on shipping address, etc.. We will be providing additional tax/vat features in future releases, and the suggestions you have given us have been added to our feature list.
Thank you again and keep suggestions and glitches coming !!
Steve
Hi Jochem,
Thank you for all your suggestions.
Glitch: 'On sale' not stored in orders.
This issue has already been fixed for the upcoming SP release.
Glitch: Child departments can't be moved up or down in the backend overview.
This is an issue with taxonomies in general(departments is also a taxonomy). I have logged this issue in PITS.
Glitch: Product search not updated.
I have forwarded your request to the team, you can follow its status here.
Glitch: Product listing widget error.
Can you give me more detail on how to reproduce this error? I was not able to reproduce this error.
Scenario: Product catalog / selling can't be limited.
I have forwarded your request to the team, you can follow its status here.
Scenario: Products shipping & selling from multiple countries.
Scenario: Multiple front end languages & catalogs.
We are planning to add multiple language support for catalogs in Sitefinity 4.3 and tax implementation is changing in SP release which will address some of your concerns.
I have also forwarded your other issues to the team.
Suggestion: Store location is set in multiple areas.
This is a very nice suggestion, I have forwarded your suggestion to the team and you can follow its status here.
Suggestion: Remove the ability to apply taxes based on shipping.
Well, we have some customers who requested this feature, which is why the feature made it to the release. An ideal example would be customers from Texas who ship their products to Texas in general will
have to pay tax on their shipping compared to other places.
Is it possible for you to not use the feature?
Suggestion: Add the ability to restrict payment methods to countries.
I have logged your suggestion. You can follow the status here.
Suggestion: Apply proper international tax rules
As I mentioned above, tax implementation is more robust in SP release, but I have forwarded your suggestion to the team for review with the latest implementation.
Suggestion: Untie taxes to a specific country.
I have forwarded your suggestion to the team, you can follow the status here.
I have also updated your Telerik points as a thank you for all your suggestions.
Kind regards,
Venkata Koppaka
the Telerik team
Hey Steve & Venkata,
Thanks for taking the time to adress all this...
From my limited view, the easiest and most flexible way to address these and other weird scenario's is to introduce some sort of catalog profile which is independent of a FE language. Inside you define all the parameters for which the catalog is active (metrics/taxes/shipping/sales/PointOfOrigin/cultures/etc). And then you link up a catalog profile to a frontend (localized) view.
But can't way to see the next SP to see what's changed!
@Venkata,
To reproduce to product listing widget, remove all the products. Create a page. Drop the product list widget onto it, click on edit and go to the second tab. Then you'll get the 'Object not set...' message.
Hi Jochem,
I can`t reproduce the bug when going to the second tab in product list widget. Can you try this scenario at a test project and see if you will reproduce it there?
Maybe you have done some additional changes to e-commerce module to trigger this? If you did please share share them with me?
The error you describe should be concerned with the edit dialog that opens when you edit the widget and the template for one of the views is not accessible or virtual path to it is deleted. You can check if you have all default virtual paths in Administration->Settings->Advanced->Virtual Paths Settings.
Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team