Retail Hero proudly presents a new RMS add-in program: "Ship-T for Dynamics RMS" which addresses the issue of a new streamilined sales tax legislation - so called Destination-Based Sales Tax, which is now implemented in 21 US' states (in particular, Washington State). The legislation requires that if a purchased item is shipped from the store by mail, the destination tax needs to be charged. However, when the same customer walks in the store and purchases the item in person, the store's local tax applies. Dynamics RMS provides no such flexibility as it allows to set default taxes on per-customer basis or treat everyone as a walk-away customer - without consideration of whether shipping is included or not.
In real life, the destination-based sales taxes may be many and change frequently. For example, in Washington State alone there's one state tax and over 350 "location code" taxes. See Destination-Based Sales Tax for more information. The location code taxes change every 3 months. If a store which uses RMS , requires both shipped and walk-in orders for the same customers, maintaining such number of different taxes becomes almost impossible.
Ship-T for Dynamics RMS overcomes this annoying issue. First, it imports the file off the Government web site which contains all destination-based sales taxes, and automatically creates or updates corresponding sales and item taxes in Dynamics RMS. This process may be repeated every time the sale taxes change.
Next, at the POS whenever it detects that a shipping is attached, it looks up the appropriate destination sales tax and applies it to the transaction. If no shipping is selected, the default walk-in tax remains. Once activated and configured the program is very simple to use and cashiers see almost no difference in the routine checkout process.
Download a fully-featured trial version of the add-in from http://www.RMSExperts.com (registration required) or contact sales@retailhero.com for more information.