Create Contact - VAT

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact for
the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to the
API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain

We are trying to do the same thing. We are creating contacts using the API
and need to be able to set the Charge VAT value against the contact when we
create them. The default of ‘Only if contact is also based in United
Kingdom,’ is not good enough for us as we have customers from the EU who
may not be VAT exempt.

Has there been any progress on this issue?

Thanks in advanceOn Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:51:57 UTC+1, Jonathan Barrett wrote:

Hi there Iain,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. It looks like we’re
just not exposing the right interface here for specifying these values.
I’ve raised a bug for the API team to dig into, and we’ll get back to you
as soon as it’s been addressed.

Thanks for bearing with us,

-J

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07:54 UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
Iain

On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact
for the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to the
API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain

Thanks Harry,

This is exactly what I was after.

Regards
AlanOn Wednesday, 25 September 2013 17:38:18 UTC+1, Harry wrote:

Hi Iain and Alan,

I’m pleased to be able to say that we now support contact sales tax though
the API. You can now pass one of ‘Auto’ (to get the default behaviour),
‘Always’, or ‘Never’ as the value of ‘charge_sales_tax’ when creating a
contact and the API will set the field on the contact in FreeAgent
accordingly. Additionally the response returned by the API will include one
of these three strings. The documentation is still being updated but in the
mean time please let me know if you have any questions about this.


Regards,
Harry Mills

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Alan Byrne <alanby...@googlemail.com<javascript:> wrote:

We are trying to do the same thing. We are creating contacts using the
API and need to be able to set the Charge VAT value against the contact
when we create them. The default of ‘Only if contact is also based in
United Kingdom,’ is not good enough for us as we have customers from the EU
who may not be VAT exempt.

Has there been any progress on this issue?

Thanks in advance

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:51:57 UTC+1, Jonathan Barrett wrote:

Hi there Iain,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. It looks like we’re
just not exposing the right interface here for specifying these values.
I’ve raised a bug for the API team to dig into, and we’ll get back to you
as soon as it’s been addressed.

Thanks for bearing with us,

-J

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07:54 UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
Iain

On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact
for the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to
the API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain


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Thanks for this, however as of today this still isn’t in the docs.

Luckily found on here, but would hope 3 months on that ‘charge_sales_tax’
details would be included in docs.On Wednesday, 25 September 2013 17:38:18 UTC+1, Harry wrote:

Hi Iain and Alan,

I’m pleased to be able to say that we now support contact sales tax though
the API. You can now pass one of ‘Auto’ (to get the default behaviour),
‘Always’, or ‘Never’ as the value of ‘charge_sales_tax’ when creating a
contact and the API will set the field on the contact in FreeAgent
accordingly. Additionally the response returned by the API will include one
of these three strings. The documentation is still being updated but in the
mean time please let me know if you have any questions about this.


Regards,
Harry Mills

Vote for FreeAgent in this years Software Satisfaction Awards -
http://bit.ly/vote-freeagent-2013

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Alan Byrne <alanby...@googlemail.com<javascript:> wrote:

We are trying to do the same thing. We are creating contacts using the
API and need to be able to set the Charge VAT value against the contact
when we create them. The default of ‘Only if contact is also based in
United Kingdom,’ is not good enough for us as we have customers from the EU
who may not be VAT exempt.

Has there been any progress on this issue?

Thanks in advance

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:51:57 UTC+1, Jonathan Barrett wrote:

Hi there Iain,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. It looks like we’re
just not exposing the right interface here for specifying these values.
I’ve raised a bug for the API team to dig into, and we’ll get back to you
as soon as it’s been addressed.

Thanks for bearing with us,

-J

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07:54 UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
Iain

On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact
for the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to
the API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain


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Hi Iain and Alan,

I’m pleased to be able to say that we now support contact sales tax though
the API. You can now pass one of ‘Auto’ (to get the default behaviour),
‘Always’, or ‘Never’ as the value of ‘charge_sales_tax’ when creating a
contact and the API will set the field on the contact in FreeAgent
accordingly. Additionally the response returned by the API will include one
of these three strings. The documentation is still being updated but in the
mean time please let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,
Harry Mills

Vote for FreeAgent in this years Software Satisfaction Awards -
http://bit.ly/vote-freeagent-2013On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Alan Byrne alanbyrne952@googlemail.comwrote:

We are trying to do the same thing. We are creating contacts using the
API and need to be able to set the Charge VAT value against the contact
when we create them. The default of ‘Only if contact is also based in
United Kingdom,’ is not good enough for us as we have customers from the EU
who may not be VAT exempt.

Has there been any progress on this issue?

Thanks in advance

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:51:57 UTC+1, Jonathan Barrett wrote:

Hi there Iain,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. It looks like we’re
just not exposing the right interface here for specifying these values.
I’ve raised a bug for the API team to dig into, and we’ll get back to you
as soon as it’s been addressed.

Thanks for bearing with us,

-J

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07:54 UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
Iain

On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact
for the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to
the API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain


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Hi there Iain,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. It looks like we’re
just not exposing the right interface here for specifying these values.
I’ve raised a bug for the API team to dig into, and we’ll get back to you
as soon as it’s been addressed.

Thanks for bearing with us,

-JOn Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07:54 UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
Iain

On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact
for the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to the
API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain

Thanks Jonathan for getting back, sorry to hassle!

Cheers
IainOn Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:51:57 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Barrett wrote:

Hi there Iain,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. It looks like we’re
just not exposing the right interface here for specifying these values.
I’ve raised a bug for the API team to dig into, and we’ll get back to you
as soon as it’s been addressed.

Thanks for bearing with us,

-J

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07:54 UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
Iain

On Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact
for the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to the
API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain

Apologies this is a semi duplicate of
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/freeagent_api/contact$20VAT/freeagent_api/HmXk6wvEdbc/Ck2sDjn-jq8J

But the last update was December 2012 - so it would be good to know where
this is over 6months later.

Cheers
IainOn Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact for
the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to the
API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain

Any update at all on this?

Many thanks
IainOn Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:52:53 PM UTC+1, pols...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

I am currently building FreeAgent integration with a digital ecommerce
platform.

For a sale on the platform I intend to use the API to create a contact for
the buyer, and generate an invoice for the sale and send to them.

However, a buyer who is based in the EU but not tax registered will be
charged the tax rate of the seller. But when creating the contact and
adding their country correctly, the default set up for a Contact in FA is
‘Charge VAT’ - ‘Only if contact is also based in United Kingdom,’ and as
far as I can see there is no way to override this with the API. This means
any invoice generated for that contact will show no VAT and therefore is
incorrect and a bit useless really!

Please can you let me know if this is something that can be added to the
API (making the country for the contact UK is a bad workaround and
incorrect for the invoices to show that).

Thanks
Iain