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Have you checked if there is a financial entity you can capture in the post hook?

Ok, progress 

I'm pretty happy with this little bit of progress.

I added hook_civicrm_alterPaymentProcessorParams($paymentObj, &$rawParams, &$cookedParams) to my extension and then because it fires at payment confirmation and redirects without hanging around, I lost my mind trying to figure out what was contained inside. To resolve that issue, I loaded the $rawParams array into a session object and used print_r() to place it in a modal popup I could review. Sure enough it contains all the good stuff I'm looking for:

$invoice_id = $rawParams['invoiceID'];
$total_amount = $rawParams['amount'];
$contributionType_accounting_code = $rawParams['contributionType_accounting_code'];

This is actually better than I expected because running a query against the civicrm_financial_account table I can pull out all the information about that particular financial type; ie: donation, member dues, etc...

Not only that but if I set up is_tax, tax_rate within the accounts admin section, I can apply taxes to those transactions with a couple of lines of code.

This is a good day!

Thanks Erik,

Yup, I've got the transaction part completely covered using that hook and I'm moving onto reporting.

Cheers,
Andrew

Hi Jens,

The tax extension will charge one or more taxes to a civicrm_financial_type and then report the taxes charged in the detailed contribution report. At this time it doesn't differentiate regions or countries but with some effort it could certainly be leveraged to do so.

Have a look at what I've done and if you'd like to add to it by all means do so. It does pretty much what I needed it to do for my use case but as I've been working on it, I've had ideas for improvement and I've heard from people like yourself with more complex needs. There is another group working towards a more sophisticated tax system. I have no idea where they are in their work but you can see some of their documentation here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=83493410

Cheers,
Andrew

Hi all,

Just a quick update on this.

VAT (% based sales tax) and invoicing support will be in version 4.5 of CiviCRM and will hopefully have a version that works with version 4.4 in the next few weeks (although this will not be publicly available for download initially).

We at Compucorp are working with the core team and Webaccess to develop this functionality.

The specification is available here:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Sales+Taxes+and+Invoicing+-+Phase+1

and the new features will be available to test in the next few weeks.

I'll be making a blog post about this in the not too distant future now that we have some screen shots and more information

Best

Jamie

Jamie,

That is great news about the progress you're making with the tax support in Core. I've been following some of the work through the various wiki postings and I am really excited about that!

Let me know if you'd like to add me to your testing effort.

Cheers,
Andrew