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Originally Posted by harknell
What I want is the user to know the entire amount and then be able to simply fill out a payment form after this, not before this,
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How can you quote shipping and tax without a ship-to location?
You don't need me to tell you that there's nothing ANONYMOUS about an internet transaction, if the customer is going to pay with a credit card. You need lots of personal information.
FLC in 4.1 will total the sale and depending on how you've set it up, a shipping estimate... but it can't calculate taxes or exact shipping until the customer enters some information.
In New York, we have 83 different tax zones. How can I guesstimate this? I can't -- so I tell the customer that we will add appropriate sales tax on the next page, afetr they enter their ship-to address.
NOW -- I agree that a shipping estimator would be a great thing to add to FLC... has anyone shopped
www.uline.com? I like how they do it. But they don't have a shipping costs line on the pre-checkout info either... until your location is known (logged in), how is anyone to know. SO -- if the customer is so-called "anonymous" - the computer will never know until a shipping address is provided.
Is there a better way? It could easily be programmed if it can be flow charted. Someone suggest something better.