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March 17, 2017 at 3:34 pm

Hi Harry,

The default receipt template actually shows the VAT breakdown. You’ll see an example in this default receipt.

You can add the following to your receipt template’s template editor:

1) to the [TAX_LINE_ITEM_LIST] section:

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>[LINE_ITEM_NAME]</td>
	<td>[LINE_ITEM_DESCRIPTION]</td>
	<td class="item_c">[LINE_ITEM_AMOUNT]</td>
	<td class="item_r">[LINE_ITEM_TOTAL]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td colspan="4">

2) Then add the following to the Main Content section of the receipt template:

<div class="taxes">
  <h3 class="section-title">Taxes</h3>
  <p><strong>*</strong> Taxable items. The total amount collected for taxes is reflected in the total(s) below.</p>
  <table class="invoice-amount">
    <thead>
      <tr class="header_row">
        <th class="left ticket_th">Tax Name</th>
        <th class="left">Description</th>
        <th class="event_th item_c">Rate</th>
        <th class="subtotal_th">Tax Amount</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="4">[TAX_LINE_ITEM_LIST]</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>

March 27, 2017 at 4:03 pm

Hi Harry,

In order to use the code above, you’d need to break the VAT amount out as tax in the ticket editor, and the breakdown would show up for new events/registrations going forward.

Since you’re publishing a price that doesn’t include taxes as separate line items, but want to show a separate line item that doesn’t really exist in the system, that’s going to require some custom PHP work for the Receipt template where you’d build out a new template pack for the Receipt template that has some PHP code that does the 20% calculation.

April 11, 2017 at 3:32 am

I have previously posted an example of adding your own shortcodes to the messages system here that might also help point you in the right direction:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/e87cc8e30c4848dcdfe2

April 18, 2017 at 5:53 am

You’re most welcome, Harry.

If you run into any problems please let us know (we can’t provide support for custom code but if we can help point you in the right direction we will).

April 18, 2017 at 7:35 am

First is, I want to be able to use the shortcode in the main section. Is removing the ‘instanceof’ if statements the correct method to do this? Or if there and instance for the main section I can use?

Removing them isn’t really the correct method no.

One of the reasons for the instanceof checks are there is to make sure you are adding the shortcodes within a section that will have the correct data. For example, if you add a ticket specific shortcode to a transaction shortcode the data you are passed into the parser won’t match. You can actually still get the data in that case, but the point is you want to add the shortcodes to libraries which have the correct data they need.

The main section has access to multiple different shortcode libraries so you you want to add your shortcode to one of the libraries it already has access to, as this is a transaction based shortcode I’d recommend EE_Transaction_Shortcodes.

Add an instance of check into both your functions so that the shortcode is only added and parsed to the EE_Transaction_Shortcodes library (what your doing now adds the shortcode to every library, which isn’t a good idea)

That leads me onto your next question:

Secondly, how do I access the ‘total cost’ data (the total cost of everything they purchased).

Take a look at how EE parsed the current EE_Transaction_Shortcodes within:

\core\libraries\shortcodes\EE_Transaction_Shortcodes.lib.php

Notice how it pulls (and checks for) the Transaction.

Then take a look at how [TOTAL_COST] pulls the value it needs.

April 18, 2017 at 8:08 am

I’d add another sanity check on line 15:

if( $transaction instanceof EE_Transaction) { ... }

Use that to confirm you actually have an EE_Transaction before attempting to use it otherwise you’ll get a fatal error if for some reason you don’t have an EE_Transaction.

April 18, 2017 at 8:38 am

Use the hamburger icon on the right of the content area to confirm if the shortcode has actually been added to EE, it doesn’t appear to be.

Click the icon and look at the available shortcodes, [VAT_TOTAL] should be there, if not your code isn’t running, or is running to late.

How are you adding the code?

April 21, 2017 at 10:23 am

Great, I’m glad you got it working 🙂