Custom Clearance Placeholder Calculation

Objective

The Customs Clearance Placeholder Calculation allows ventures to print a detailed cost and price breakdown on shipping documents. For this, Seller Center is using placeholders which depend on either the category or on the Seller and are calculated using a forum.

Customs Clearance Variables

The Customs Clearance Variables, which are used the shipping document placeholders are defined in one place and are non-editable in the way they are calculated. Only the value per Seller or per Category can be edited.

Critical KnowledgeIn order to activate the feature, please create a ticket in TMLSD. The configuration that needs to be enabled is core:

 customs_variables/enabled.

Configuring of Customs Clearance Variable Values

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1 Go to Admin > Finance > International Currencies & Customs and navigate to the Customs Clearance Variables Tab
2 It is possible to configure the values for each variable displayed. In order to do so, select Edit to either edit the Category or Global + Seller values. The variables themselves can not be changed and development is needed to add new variables if required.
3 For variables with Inheritance Type Category, it is possible to configure a Global Value which is applied to all categories by default.
To do so:

  1. Select Edit Global Value
  2. Enter the value
  3. Press Save
4  The global value can be over-written on each category level, simply press Edit for the respective category, enter your value and press save.
5  In order to reset the category value back to the global default value press Reset for the respective category
6 For variables with Inheritance Type Seller + Global, it is also possible to configure a Global Value which is applied to all Sellers by default. To do so:

  • Select Edit Global Value
  • Enter the value
  • Press Save
7 To overwrite the global value it is possible to set a value for individual Sellers. To configure a Seller specific value click Edit for the respective Seller, enter a value and save the input.

Using Custom Clearance Placeholder

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1 Got to Admin > Settings > Content Management, Document Templates
2  Select the template you want to edit or create a new one. Read more on how to work with document templates here.
3 Open the Order Item group in order to use the following Customs Placeholders:

  1. International Base Cost
  2. International CIF
  3. International Customs Clearance
  4. International Taxes
  5. International Freight Cost

And the corresponding totals in the Total data group.

Read more here to understand the calculations behind the placeholders.