Adding Content to Invoices

[R. Victor Klassen]

An option that sort of gives what you’re after is to use a negative discount.

There’s already an (optionally displayed) discount column.  If you have an item sold for $100, and put in a discount of -10%, you will have a total $110.   Gets the math what you want.  But the column will be labeled “discount”.

Might be a way of faking the internationalization out to get the word “discount” to be “buyer’s premium” but that would be beyond my knowledge.


On Dec 26, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Doran Auctions <eire1975 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I just started using Gnucash and I've hit a snag.  We charge a buyer's
>> premium of 10% on all sales. This premium is also subject to sales tax, so
>> it needs to be added to an invoice before the tax is calculated.  For
>> example:
>> 
>> 1 Widget sold a $5.00 plus 10% buyer's premium plus 6% sales tax.  Can I
>> edit or somehow add a column to our invoices that would allow me to include
>> the buyer's premium.  I thought about adding it on at the end, but it needs
>> to be added to each item.  
>> 
>> If this sounds weird, we're an auction house and a buyer's premium is
>> customary in our line of business.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> I would recommend you create a Tax Table that includes both the buyer's
> premium and the sales tax as two Tax Table Entries.  Then mark each item
> in your Invoice as Taxable and assign the Tax Table.
> 
> If the 6% sales tax is on top of the 10% buyer's premium then you'll
> need to set the tax rate to 6.6% (6% + 6% of 10% = .6%) to account for
> the added 10%.  However if the premium is NOT included then you can just
> use the 10% and 6% directly.
> 
> When you print the invoice you can list out the individual "Taxes"
> individually.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no way to add a new column for your use case.
> 
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