paradigma store glitches

[Robert Brenstein]

>  > a) I have accidently discovered that there was a special last
>>  week on the occasion of RevConWest which I do not recall
>>  seeing announced on any list.
>
>It was announced on the Rev list and on the Valentina list -- it was in the
>Valentina 2 for Revolution announcement.

Ah, that explains it. I read may be half of it only, assuming the 
rest is a regular marketing blah blah :) I wonder how many people 
missed it that way.

>You should have come -- we even gave out a ton of blue baseball caps with
>the Valentina gear and shuttle :-)

I wish I could. A tad too far. May be next RevConEurope.

>  > f) no info about the shopping process. Is there a formal
>>  invoice available for printing at the end? Is the license key
>>  given on-screen immediately after the purchase or being
>>  emailed later on? are sales taxes or VAT applied or included?
>
>Its not a pretty cart. I agree, it needs most of these things. We don't
>apply sales tax or VAT for the simple reason all business processes pass
>through the lovely, wooded and rainy state of Oregon, where there is no
>sales tax (but we do have an assisted suicide law and medical marijuana).

Basically, the shop is okay. Just some functionality needs to be 
fixed. Since I can't go through the steps without filling the info on 
several screenviews, some overview of the process would be welcome. 
At present, the shop has only an exerpt about vouchers.

The fact that Oregon has no sales tax may not preclude you from 
having to collect it, although you may be in fact exempted. However, 
all online vendors I shop with in the US collect European VAT 
nowadays. It's not a coincidence but a result of some agreement 
between the US and EU.

An invoice, actually purchase receipt, is a must for some of us to 
file with taxes (I actually have to make a copy of all my invoices 
and pass them to tax accountant). A web-based form as Digital River 
does it or an email like Kagi does it would do.

Robert