InternationalShippingPremium

Initial Build

2006.01 or earlier

Module

Accounting

Current Setting Type

Text Box

Use this system option to add a premium to the shipping charge if the ship-to address is an international address. A shipping address is considered to be international if the ship-to county is not USA (defined as "United States of America", "United States" or "USA" in upper or lower case). InternationalShippingPremium only applies to a shipping charge applied at the invoice level. This premium does not apply to a shipping charge based on a percentage of the invoice total.

The default for this option is 0.

Current Setting

The current setting for InternationalShippingPremium is used as follows:

Values: This system option can be set to any numerical value in a format that can convert to a decimal. netFORUM adds the value in this system option to what would otherwise be the shipping amount.

Example: For example, if the system option value is 24.99 and the shipping would be 10.00, then the shipping amount will compute to 34.99.

Default Value: 0

Fields 

This system option includes the following fields:

description: This field gives the description of the system option, including its use and default value.

Important! Do not modify the following fields after the system option is first created. Changing these fields after they have been used can invalidate existing data.

category: This field sets the category (usually the module) where the system option is used.

type : The type field determines the display type of the current setting field (check box, drop-down list, or text box).

values: The values field indicates the allowed values for the current setting field.

Availability

Each system option includes the following availability settings:

entity level option?: Select this check box to make this system option available on an entity level.

visible to external systems?: Select this check box to make this system option available in xWeb.