Duty Free Sales

The best way I have found is to create two seperate items for each product. If it is sold duty-free, you put a "d" before the item lookup code (barcode). The duty-free item has it's own cost and price.

I assume your customs authority requires you to keep a seperate stock of your duty-free items anyway, so you would need to track duty-free items as seperate items anyway...

Jas> I'm looking into a POS system. He's my situation, I've got a store that

I also encounter similar situation, what if the stock is imported as duty free stock only and then it is sold either to tourist as duty free where zero import duty and zero gst, and the same stock is also sold as non duty free where it attract duty and GST, customs doesnt require to keep separate stocks, any ideas how to handle such condition.

"Jas> The best way I have found is to create two seperate items for each product.

In that case, just create a different price using Levels for your duty-free customers. Creat a customer called DUTY FREE CUSTOMER and link it to that price level, and select customer is tax exempt.

I'm not sure how or when you pay the duty for duty-paid customers, so more information is needed based on your business process.

RMS does a poor job where you have to have taxes based on the item AND taxes based on the customer. One or the other works fine, but you may have some difficulty.

Jas> I also encounter similar situation, what if the stock is imported as duty

Since duty free customers are either departing by plane or cruise ships, creating a new customer for each sale will be time consuming, plus customs require capture information for such as flight number, date of departure, purchaser name and for cruise ship customs require cabin number, name of cruise ship and date of departure, are there any way to use a general customer i.e. duty free cash sale for either air or sea and enter their details separately.

As for duty paid customers we send in a report at the end of the month to customs showing the duty of the sold items calculated at time of transaction using the custom exchange rate then convert the foregin currency to local currency then calculate it duty

Can RMS handle this kind of sales.

Kevin

"Jas> In that case, just create a different price using Levels for your duty-free

I certainly would not recommend RMS specifically, but you can probably work around some of the issues if you decided to use it. It isn't designed to do what you want.

"Kev> Can RMS handle this kind of sales.