How to Force All Stock Items to a Specific Tax Category

[COBS Tech Support]

Stock items entered in CAPITAL inherit their tax category (GST free, inclusive, etc.) from the stock group assigned to them. If a stock group is not assigned to the item and the user entering stock forgets to assign a tax category code to the entered record, the record could unintentionally be invoiced without tax.

To avoid this issue it is possible to force all items not assigned a tax category explicitly, a particular rate. In this example tax rate 7 is assigned to all stock automatically when saved, if no tax rate was previously assigned to that item.

1. From the CAPITAL main menu select Special|Installation Workshop.

2. Log in with your administrator password.

Note: All users should be out of CAPITAL when performing this configuration change.

3. From the main menu select Build|Screen Builder.

4. Select 'Stock Control' if not already selected and press Open button.

5. If CAPITAL warns you that other running copies of CAPITAL are still open, ALT-TAB and close these down. Also close down any copies running on other computers.

6. Select File|Screen Script from the main menu.

7. Paste the following into the Screen Script window:

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If Mode = 3
   If Empty(SCRRead("Taxrate"))
      SCRWrite("Taxrate", 7)
   Endif
Endif

8. Press Save button.

9. Select File|Exit and confirm saved changes to exit.