[Koha] GST and discount not calculating correctly when placing an order in 3.0 acquisitions.

[Joshua Ferraro]

Hi Joann,

I can see you've taken offense at my comments, which was not my
intention. What I meant to explain is that while you certainly may
have an excellent acquisitions system that's been in use for over 8
years at HLT, we've never seen it ... it's never worked properly as
contributed to the community. Whether this is as a result of custom
templates, or custom code that was never contributed, i can't say as I
don't have a way to review your installation ...

I don't think it's a matter of someone rewriting or removing your
acquisitions system from the release ... it was never in there to
begin with.

Cheers,

Josh

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Joann Ransom <jransom at library.org.nz> wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> You may or may not recall that Horowhenua Library Trust funded the
> development of Koha 1.0 and released it as Open Source. We have contributed
> hundreds of thousands of dollars to the project already, and have a dam fine
> acquisitions system which we have used for 8 years, but which someone chose
> to rewrite or remove from the official release.
>
> regards
>
> Jo.
>
> Joshua Ferraro wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Joann Ransom <jransom at library.org.nz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> /(last one from me for the day I promise ..)/
>>>
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> I have just placed an order for a book in my new Koha 3.0 test site.
>>>
>>> The supplier profile is set with list/ordering price and invoice price
>>> both
>>> inclusive of GST (12.5%) The supplier gives a 15% discount.
>>>
>>> I ordered a book with a List price of $75. (See attachment for the screen
>>> shots showing the input screen and the order details screen.)
>>>
>>> The amount to be deducted from the budget needs to be exclusive of GST
>>> and
>>> discount ie the actual net cost to us of purchasing the item.
>>>
>>> So RRP $75 less GST (divided by 1.125) =  a GST exclusive price of
>>> $66.66.
>>> Then if we deduct the 15% ($9.99) off the ex-GST price the book is
>>> actually
>>> $56.67.
>>>
>>> What appears to be happening is that Koha 3.0 then adds GST of 12.5%
>>> ($7.08)
>>> back on to the $56.67 to arrive at the $63.75 which is then deducted off
>>> the
>>> budget. This is the wrong amount.
>>>
>>> I think this may be a bug. Where does one log such things? And how do we
>>> incorporate a patch back into my demo site?
>>>
>>
>> You can log bugs at http://bugs.koha.org.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> (PS We have used Koha acquisitions for 8 years and  are very familiar
>>> with
>>> the intricacies of it - by way of explanation for appearing so pedantic
>>> and
>>> obsessed about it!)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, however, the version of Koha you're running doesn't match
>> released versions (whether by code or by templates). I think it's
>> great that you're looking to run off of a released version, and I hope
>> you're able to contribute the necessary bugfixes and patches so that
>> upcoming releases will incorporate all of the functionality you're
>> using -- I'm sure there are a lot of libraries in NZ and elsewhere
>> that use GST exactly the way you do.
>>
>> Perhaps BibLibre can comment on whether the GST calculation described
>> above by Joann is the same GST calculation done in France? We don't
>> have GST in the US, so I can't comment on how it's calculated here.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>
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