tax-exempt customer?

[davis]

I need to be able to make a customer (dealer or institution) tax-
exempt, so I was thinking of either adding the auth.user to an
auth.group or adding a ContactRole that could be checked for and then
setting up a listener. But what signal would I listen for?

[davis]

Anybody know offhand what signal to listen for to change the tax
amount during checkout?

Just thought I'd ask before reading through the code.

[Bruce Kroeze]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM, davis <dv...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Anybody know offhand what signal to listen for to change the tax
amount during checkout?

Just thought I'd ask before reading through the code.

I think the easiest solution for you would be to write a variant of one of the existing tax modules, then add it to the livesetting TAX.MODULE.choices.  In its get_rate function, you could check whether the customer is tax-exempt, and if so, return Decimal('0.00')

That way you'd always be certain that they aren't getting taxed, and you could skip tracking down all signals and such.

--
Bruce Kroeze
http://www.ecomsmith.com
It's time to hammer your site into shape.

[davis]

Thanks, Bruce. I made a custom tax module -- the area module with a
small tax-exempt test -- and it seems to work well.

> Bruce Kroezehttp://www.ecomsmith.com