VAT settings

If your business is registered for VAT select yes for the setting Is your business VAT registered?.

If you are changing the status of your business after product or delivery prices have been entered, you must follow a set procedure when changing this setting to avoid changes to your prices.

Your ShopWired account will, by default, charge the standard VAT rate for your ShopWired account's location. The standard rate for your location is indicated in the Use the standard VAT rate for... setting.

If you want your ShopWired account to have a different standard rate of VAT, deselect the Use the standard VAT rate for... setting and configure the standard rate of VAT you'd like to apply using the Enter the standard VAT rate to charge to customers within the... setting.

Select how VAT should be calculated on visitor's shopping baskets and orders:

• Select calculate VAT per unit and ShopWired will calculate VAT on a single unit of a line item
• Select calculate VAT per line item and ShopWired will calculate VAT on the total quantity of a line item

Refer to the guide detailing how ShopWired calculates VAT for more information about both calculation methods.

You can enter product and delivery rate prices into your ShopWired account either including or excluding the VAT element of the price. The selection of this setting affects all places in which prices are entered (or uploaded through import systems), including when entering cost prices.

For the setting Will you enter product and delivery pricing including or excluding VAT?:

• Select Yes, I'll upload product and shipping prices including VAT to enter prices including VAT
• Select No, please calculate and add VAT to product and shipping prices to enter prices excluding VAT

HMRC rules determine whether or not you should charge VAT on delivery costs.

Where VAT is usually charged on delivery costs, if you also sell products that have a reduced rate of VAT or are either zero rated or exempt from VAT, the VAT liability for delivery costs follows the VAT liability of the products in the order, find out why. ShopWired automatically determines the VAT liability on delivery costs according to these rules.

You can select yes for the setting Charge customers the (full) VAT equivalent price for delivery when all products in the order do not attract VAT? if you would like to charge the VAT equivalent NET price for delivery costs when the delivery does not have a VAT liability.

You can select to show NET product prices (exclusive of VAT) to website visitors (visitors not logged into an account or logged into a standard customer account) by deselecting the setting Show prices including VAT to website visitors and standard customers?.

You can select to show NET product prices (exclusive of VAT) to website visitors logged into a trade account by deslecting the setting Show prices including VAT to website visitors logged into a trade customer account?.

When toggling these settings:

• ShopWired will automatically adjust the display of prices on your website accordingly by modifying the output of the Twig variables to either show prices including or excluding VAT
• You can use the theme customiser to add a VAT line to your website's shopping basket page totals
• You can use platform checkout to toggle the display of prices to be including/excluding VAT and show a VAT line on the totals

When a visitor to your website is purchasing from a delivery zone for which you do not charge VAT, you can still charge the visitor the VAT equivalent price.

To do so, select yes for the setting Should customers from non-VAT countries be charged the equivalent 'VAT inclusive' price?.

When the VAT equivalent pricing feature is selected, you can refine the type of visitor that is affected using the Which type of customers should be charged VAT equivalent pricing? setting.

You can select which VAT rate is used when calculating VAT equivalent pricing using the setting When calculating VAT equivalent pricing, which VAT rate should be used?.

• The selected delivery zone's VAT rate means that the visitor's delivery zone's VAT rate will be used (this setting is only used where the delivery zone has a VAT threshold
• Your ShopWired account's default VAT rate means that your ShopWired account's default VAT rate will be used

ShopWired detects the location of visitors using geolocation. It can adjust the prices displayed for products and delivery costs accordingly, to remove VAT (and therefore display the NET price) when the setting described above (to charge the VAT equivalent price) is not activated select the setting Adjust prices based on the 'VAT status' of the visitor's selected currency?.

When using the Product multi-channel feed app, use the setting Should the multi-channel XML feed output prices including or excluding VAT? setting to select whether the feed contains products and delivery charges including or excluding VAT.

Your selected setting should correspond with the setting selected for the display of prices on your website. Where you are displaying two sets of prices (including and excluding VAT) make your selection for this setting depending on the price that is displayed most prominently on the page.