Is there a dynamic sales tax toggle? +Stock Control (Simple Event Sales)

Hi:

There are a few options I can’t find, but I’m hoping you’ll point out a feature I’ve missed.

I am selling live remote courses worldwide. I must charge VAT to residents or businesses in my home country, but I don’t charge VAT anywhere else. (I live in a small country so most of my customers are “anywhere else.”)

I also, have a limit on capacity (6 people per course) so I need Stock Control (number of “seats” in the course).

Is there a way to set tax or no tax on a per order basis? Could I toggle the tax as a parameter to the payment button short code? This would be an easy solution for me. It seems this would be possible, but I haven’t found it in the reference documentation.
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My current work around is to have two identical products, one with tax and one without tax applied. I use a form (gravity) to collect some basic information including if I have to charge tax or not. Then after the buyer submits the registration form the result is to display a payment page with a button for the no-tax product, or a different payment page with the tax product.

I’m not thrilled with needing to maintain two identical products. (Main reason: I have to remember to make changes to two products and two payment pages and then test both products after changes. I forget to maintain both because I’m human.) But this work fine! So I’ve been very happy, until now when I need to set inventory limits on each course. Of course, the tax and the no-tax products pull from the same inventory, I need to stop sales after I sell a total of 6 from either product. If I set a quantity of 6 on each product then I potentially put 12 people in a course.

If I can toggle the tax on a single product, that solves my issue. If not I wonder if there is any way to do some rudimentary inventory control for two products pulling from the same inventory like. I’d be happy if you could suggest a wordpress workaround or another plugin that would help.

(Gravity forms has a very rudimentary limit for the number of times you can fill out the registration form that leads to the payment button, but I use one form to register all the courses. It would be a admin/management *nightmare* if I have to create a separate registration form for each course I offer, so that’s not a solution for me.)
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I’m generally extremely thrilled at how well this simple plugin offers so many features and just works. And it’s FREE! What? I’ve used it to sell courses and meet-ups for two years or more. My needs are becoming slightly more sophisticated. I really hope I haven’t outgrown your plugin. I hope we find a solution because I really don’t want to change over to any of the bigger solutions I know about.

Thanks for your help.
Steve

• This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by zurcherart. Reason: typos, clearer description (I hope)

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