European Union Compliance
Due to new EU requirements, we are required to display certain information to European Customer and require customers to accept our terms of sale.
Highlighted changes
- Display all prices as gross prices and indicate that VAT is included.
- Display text that we accept all major forms of payment
- We must require the customer to accept our "Terms of Sale" and our "Privacy Policy."
- We cannot display VAT # and US Federal Tax ID on the same order.
- If there are rebillings or subscriptions on the order, the customer must accept the subscription terms.
How to add "including VAT" pricing to your templates
Product Detail Template
[IF="PRODUCT_TIERED_PRICING"=="0"] <select name="vd"> [FOREACH="PRODUCT_VARIATIONS"] [FOREACH="PRODUCT_VARIATION_DELIVERIES"] <option value="###VARIATION_ID###.###DELIVERY_ID###"> ###GETTEXT(###VARIATION_NAME###)### @ ###GETTEXT(###PRODUCT_TOTAL_WITH_DELIVERY###)###[IF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"] ([GETTEXT="including VAT"])[ENDIF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"] ###GETTEXT(Delivery by:)### ###GETTEXT(###DELIVERY_LABEL###)### </option> [ENDFOREACH="PRODUCT_VARIATION_DELIVERIES"] [ENDFOREACH="PRODUCT_VARIATIONS"] </select> [ENDIF="PRODUCT_TIERED_PRICING"]
Add below text after ###BRTOTAL### token on basket, Single Page, summary, and receipt templates:
[IF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"]<br/>including ###TAX_DESCRIPTION###[ENDIF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"]
Add below text after ###TOTAL### token on basket, Single Page, summary and receipt templates:
[IF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"]<br/>[GETTEXT="including"] ###TAX_TOTAL### ###TAX_DESCRIPTION###[ENDIF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"]
Update Tax total display to conditionally display if tax inclusive pricing is set on summary page and receipt pages:
[IF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"=="0"] [IF="TAX_DESCRIPTION"] <tr bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <td colspan=4 class="swr__tax_description">###TAX_DESCRIPTION###</td> <td class="swr__totdata">###TAX_TOTAL### ###TAX_EXEMPT_HELP(Exempt?)###</td> </tr> [ENDIF="TAX_DESCRIPTION"] [ENDIF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"]
Checkboxes for customer to accept terms of sale,privacy policy, and subscription conditions.
This must be added to the Summary Template, just above the ###CONTINUE(...)### token.
[IF="ACCEPT_TERMS_OF_SALE"] [FOREACH="BASKET"] [IF="BRRECURRINGACCEPTTERMS"] <p>###BRRECURRINGACCEPTTERMS### [GETTEXT="Yes, I accept the"] ###BRRECURRINGTERMSLINK(###GETTEXT(subscription conditions)###)### [GETTEXT="for"] ###BRPRODNAME###.</p> [ENDIF="BRRECURRINGACCEPTTERMS"] [ENDFOREACH="BASKET"] <p>###ACCEPT_TERMS_OF_SALE### [GETTEXT="Yes, I accept"] ###RESELLER_COMPANY###'s <a target="terms" href="###TERMS_OF_SALE_URL###">[GETTEXT="Terms and Conditions"]</a> [GETTEXT="and"] <a target="terms" href="###PRIVACY_POLICY_URL###">[GETTEXT="Privacy Policy"]</a>.</p> <br/> [ENDIF="ACCEPT_TERMS_OF_SALE"]
Subscription Conditions information
This must be added to the Summary Template, as part of the BASKET foreach loop in the product name cell.
This must be added to the Basket and Single Page Template, as part of the ASKBASKET foreach loop in the product name cell.
[IF="BRRECURRINGTERMSLINK"] <p><b>###GETTEXT(Subscription conditions:)### ###BRRECURRINGTERMSLINK(<img src="###IMAGE(icon_info.png)###" border="0" height="16" width="16"/>)###</b> <blockquote> [GETTEXT="Duration of the subscription:"] [EITHER="BRRECURRINGTIMES"]###BRRECURRINGTIMES### times[OR="BRRECURRINGTIMES"]Unlimited[ENDEITHER="BRRECURRINGTIMES"]<br/> [GETTEXT="Billing period:"] ###BRRECURRINGFREQUENCY###<br/> [GETTEXT="Unit price per subsequent subscription period:"] ###BRRECURRINGAMOUNT### [EITHER="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"] [GETTEXT="including"] ###TAX_DESCRIPTION###[OR="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"] [GETTEXT="+ tax"][ENDEITHER="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"] </blockquote> </p> [ENDIF="BRRECURRINGTERMSLINK"]
Accepted Payment Methods
This must be added to Storefront, Product Details, and Basket Templates
[IF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"] <p>[GETTEXT="Accepted Payment Methods: We offer standard international payment methods. Further information about the particular payment methods available to you will be provided during the order process.<br/><br/>Any digital products sold into the European Union will have an applicable VAT (Tax) charge applied to them. To see a list of countries this will be applied to please"] <a target="vat_faq" href="###HTML(vat_faq.html)###">[GETTEXT="click here"].</a></p> [ENDIF="DISPLAY_TAX_INCLUSIVE_PRICING"]
Remove Tokens for ###RESELLER_VATNO### and ###RESELLER_FEDERAL_TAX_ID### on Receipt templates and replace with below:
[IF="RESELLER_REGISTRATION_ID"] <tr> <td class="swr__label">Registration ID:</td> <td class="swr__data">###RESELLER_REGISTRATION_ID###</td> </tr> [ENDIF="RESELLER_REGISTRATION_ID"]
Example text to remove:
<tr> <td class="swr__label">[GETTEXT="VAT Number:"]</td> <td class="swr__data">###RESELLER_VATNO###</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="swr__label">[GETTEXT="Federal Tax ID:"]</td> <td class="swr__data">###RESELLER_FEDERAL_TAX_ID###</td> </tr>