Taxes / Icons / Order confirmation email / States / Availability / My Account

[misscherylb]

Hello, I'm battling with a few issues and would greatly appreciate some assistance with VM2.

Taxes:
I have set up two tax rules. I want both to be included in the price calculation throughout the system. But I want only one of the rules to be visible - everywhere,  i.e. cart, order, emails, invoices...
I have tried the various "visible for shopper/vendor" settings, but none seem to have any effect? It always shows both, no matter how I set it.

Icons:
I have replaced the update_quantity_cart and remove_from_cart icons in \components\com_virtuemart\assets\images\vmgeneral (i.e. deleted the old icons and inserted new ones with the exact same file names), but they are not showing on front end? How is that possible, what must I do?

Order confirmation email:
The layout and information provided in the html email looks pretty terrible when it arrives, unclear and confusing. I have also tried the raw email, which looks clearer, but that has quite a few errors in there. E.g. it first displays the total as 0 and then below the correct total. There is coding in some places instead of text. Is it possible to just switch emailing off somehow? I am using VMInvoice to generate and email invoices and would rather use only this on order confirmation.

States:
How can I enter states for South Africa?

Availability:
When I activate the last option under "Action when a Product is Out of Stock", i.e. I want shoppers to see that the product will only be shipped from a certain date, but they can already place orders - nothing happens, it doesn't show anywhere? All my stock is 0 at the moment, so it should show, shouldn't it?

My Account:
Under My Account details, shopper information tab, it shows
Shopper information
User permissions:    shopper
Customer ID:    df16e78de7be4d6ba98a131c579536fd
Shopper group:    -default-
How can I remove this?


Sorry if some of this is perhaps really simple to solve - I'm a real beginner...
I'll be grateful for any tips.
Thanks in advance!

[WDCT]

what version of joomla & vm are you using?

Brian
SA Web Designer

[misscherylb]

Hi Brian

Thanks so much for getting back to me!! I am still battling with these same issues...
the tax thing I've meanwhile worked around with a different setup, but the other stuff is still not working.
I'm using Joomla 2.5.4 and Virtuemart 2.0.6.

Looking forward to hear from you again...

Cheers, Cheryl

[misscherylb]

For anyone who's interested,
found some solutions to a few of the issues:

Fix e-mail issues -
dropped default option and got

Interamind Email Manager Pro, works a charm
http://www.interamind.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118&Itemid=99

in combo with
Artio VM Invoice for automated customizable invoices
http://www.artio.net/virtuemart-tools/vm-invoice-generator

Enter states - in database directly or get VM Datamanager
http://www.virtuemart-datamanager.com/
great for a bunch of stuff, inventory management, barcode, tracking numbers... still need to find time to see what it can all do.. might even work for invoicing?

taxes:
never worked, so eventually had to go and enter different base price.
i've seen the many discussions on the forum about bad entrepreneurship when people want to enter the final price instead of having VM calculate it for them and i'd just like to note that we have the same problem and this is rather related to "good business practice" and lots of calculations prior to entering prices into VM rather than a lack of calculations... our calculations are a little more laborious and complex than just being able to do them with one simple % add in VM... basically, after the entire costing is done, you still have to be able to make the RRP look "nice", i.e. round it. so now i've had to do an extra step for VM to reverse this rounded price back to a base price excl VAT, but even then, when VAT is added, you don't arrive at exactly the rounded price you need - e.g. instead of reaching 199 VM might calculate 198.9999999 and then you have to overwrite that price again... doesn't really make sense from that point of view, would be nice to be able to control this differently in future releases...  what we'd really need is a final price (that we arrive at in our costing), be able to enter that in VM and then have VM calculate the VAT and display that amount x VAT is included in price.
or have i missed something - if it's already possible like that, please let me know, would be very grateful to hear about it!

icons:
found out they need replacing in vm2-sprite.png
/components/com_virtuemart/assets/images


the availability and account information issues i've not found a solution for yet... please let me know if you find anything!


so, hope some of the info above might be helpful to other beginners like me and save them some time searching...

[misscherylb]

to remove the account information in shopper's "My Account" that displays as
User permissions:    shopper
Customer ID:    df16e78de7be4d6ba98a131c579536fd
Shopper group:    -default-

go to
/components/com_virtuemart/views/user/tmpl/edit_shopper.php

remove this:

<?php if( $this->userDetails->virtuemart_user_id!=0)  {
    echo $this->loadTemplate('vmshopper');
    } ?>

[gxHL]

to remove the account information in shopper's "My Account" that displays as
User permissions:    shopper
Customer ID:    df16e78de7be4d6ba98a131c579536fd
Shopper group:    -default-

go to
/components/com_virtuemart/views/user/tmpl/edit_shopper.php

remove this:

<?php if( $this->userDetails->virtuemart_user_id!=0)  {
    echo $this->loadTemplate('vmshopper');
    } ?>

Hello this worked great for me but i got a little question... Is it possible to make this edit and put it into templates/*TEMPLATE-NAME*/html/com_virtuemart ?
How exactly is this possible?
Thank you.

[misscherylb]

Availability:
When I activate the last option under "Action when a Product is Out of Stock", i.e. I want shoppers to see that the product will only be shipped from a certain date, but they can already place orders - nothing happens, it doesn't show anywhere? All my stock is 0 at the moment, so it should show, shouldn't it?

I just realised there seems to be some wrong link in the programming:
when you select the option to show availability in configuration and select a certain image to be displayed, this does not actually display the image but only activates the option.
Then when you go into a product and select an image to be displayed there for that specific product, it does not display the image selected, but the one that was selected in configuration.
Could someone tell me how to fix this please?
I'd like to set a "default" image in configuration to show for all items unless a different image is selected for an individual item, then that would override. Itsn't this how it's meant to be?