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 Author: enig View Messages Posted By enig
 Posted: May 24, 2023 11:10
 Subject: NECESSITY: Buyer's VAT ID on invoices
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enig (6320)

Location:  Lithuania, Panevėžys
Member Since Contact Type Status
Mar 3, 2012 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: enigma bricks - CHEAP S&H!
Please add a way to displayBuyer's VAT ID on invoices. For now at least a
quick and dirty fix - maybe in a way of having an option to enable a clickable
icon on the order's received page where buyer's VAT ID can be entered
by the seller. Plus a Basic Macro Tag to place it where you want it in the invoice.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: May 24, 2023 12:47
 Subject: Re: NECESSITY: Buyer's VAT ID on invoices
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Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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In Suggestions, enig writes:
  Please add a way to displayBuyer's VAT ID on invoices. For now at least a
quick and dirty fix - maybe in a way of having an option to enable a clickable
icon on the order's received page where buyer's VAT ID can be entered
by the seller. Plus a Basic Macro Tag to place it where you want it in the invoice.

I put it in the tracking field (that I don't use).
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: May 24, 2023 12:49
 Subject: Re: NECESSITY: Buyer's VAT ID on invoices
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1001bricks (52255)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Member Since Contact Type Status
Sep 6, 2005 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: 1001bricks
In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
  In Suggestions, enig writes:
  Please add a way to displayBuyer's VAT ID on invoices. For now at least a
quick and dirty fix - maybe in a way of having an option to enable a clickable
icon on the order's received page where buyer's VAT ID can be entered
by the seller. Plus a Basic Macro Tag to place it where you want it in the invoice.

I put it in the tracking field (that I don't use).

Addition: and I use this field as a macro/conditional tag to show it in the Invoice
email.
 Author: enig View Messages Posted By enig
 Posted: May 25, 2023 10:16
 Subject: Re: NECESSITY: Buyer's VAT ID on invoices
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enig (6320)

Location:  Lithuania, Panevėžys
Member Since Contact Type Status
Mar 3, 2012 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: enigma bricks - CHEAP S&H!
In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
  In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
  In Suggestions, enig writes:
  Please add a way to displayBuyer's VAT ID on invoices. For now at least a
quick and dirty fix - maybe in a way of having an option to enable a clickable
icon on the order's received page where buyer's VAT ID can be entered
by the seller. Plus a Basic Macro Tag to place it where you want it in the invoice.

I put it in the tracking field (that I don't use).

Addition: and I use this field as a macro/conditional tag to show it in the Invoice
email.

We use the tracking field for other notes - when the order has been collected
prior invoicing, which carrier/website we used to get the best shipping cost,
when we are awaiting a reply from the buyer in regards to missing pieces etc.
All that gets replaced by the tracking number afterwards. The edit order/order
note feature for this is useless as the notes are not visible at a glance (require
mouse hovering), also require loading of multiple pages just to change the note
AND we can not update our 'notes' on multiple orders at once.

Besides, the location of that field is super convenient for this.

And no, we are not asking to provide us with an additional field - the layout
even with the unnecessary columns disabled is already too wide to fit on a Full
HD (1920*1080) screen. Hence the ask to have the VAD IT not as a field but as
an icon.

We do store the VAT IDs in the 'My Note on User', as well as the phone
numbers - so we do not have to keep asking the same customers for the 30th time.
But even if it would be possible to make that field show up in the invoice via
a Macro Tag - it would not really work because there can be different info in
that field. As is its intended use