Charging for registration?

Hi @candy2012,

There is no way to do this at present, however we are developing a addon to do this, it should be released mid to late next week.

Just to give some inputs on your comments above, i too really hate bloated user profile plugins, hence why UWP was born ?? On the other hand you complain about having to install 10000 plugins to achieve one simple thing but then say this one simple thing should be included, let me just explain a little about this.
We try to break things down in to “addons” which are plugins that extend the functionality of the main plugin, we do this to keep things lean and so users only have to install the ones they need/want. In the case of taking payments for registrations, it sounds simple but in the day of global sites and customers it can become very complex, for example if a USA site is selling a membership to a french consumer then they by EU law must collect certain details and also register for VAT on one EU country and pay that countries individual VAT rate, the world has gone mad but to be fully compliant it takes a whole new plugin. We have created a plugin to do this, it can take payments and charge taxes or exclude people from buying if you are not VAT registered, so in the end to do a simple thing like charge for memberships you would need a “invoicing” plugin and to keep things lean the code to charge would be in a membership addon.

Sorry for the long explanation, but it should all come together next week ??

If you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks,

Stiofan

Hi,
Thanks for the input!

But “exclude people from buying if you are not VAT registered” ?!?!? Did not really understand that …

In many countries in the EU you can operate as a small registered business WITHOUT having to register for VAT – so what about those? In some countries, small businesses simply can’t register for VAT unless they have reached a certain turnover.

Yeah, things got really mad, but the only ones at fault are us for accepting them to make our lives impossible …

Are you EU based?
The system is crazy now ??

If you sell any “digital product” from one EU country to another then you MUST be VAT registered, here in the UK if you only register for VAT because of this EU VAT (VAT MOSS) then you don’t need to charge VAT to the customers of your own country, just other countries until you reach the sales levels for your own country, they you need to charge VAT. If you sell to outside the EU then no VAT applies but if a company outside the EU sells to the EU they must either be registered for VAT in every country they sell to or register in just one and charge vat through that VAT number.

The whole thing got so complex we decided to make a plugin called “Invoicing” which deals with it all for you, as a developer you can create an addon as just tell invoicing i need $xx amount, and Invoicing will deal with the complex part, your addon just as to listen for the “paid” or “refunded” hook actions.

Thanks,

Stiofan

Hundreds of guys sitting in those EU boards and comissions cashing in tax-free! salaries have to fill their time with something, so they “cook” stupid, complicated regulations all day long …

There is no way to do this at present, however we are developing a addon to do this, it should be released mid to late next week

Could you make sure to include Stripe at least? Looking forward to this .. =)

@madeiranetwork
Stripe will be an option, there will also be several others available ??

Stiofan