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ekmPowershop - ecommerce software - shopping cart solution


VAT Changes effective Monday 1st December 2008: ekmPowershop.com price change tool available


Most will be aware of the impending VAT cut, due to come into force on Monday 1st December. With the little notice served we understand there may be an element of panic, especially coming upto Christmas. After all you want your prices to be spot on for the busiest time of the year.

The chancellor has decided to cut the rate of VAT from 17.5% to 15%, which means there are some alterations required to your online shops. Most likely at midnight on Sunday would be the correct time to do this.

We have developed a tool for those wishing to make bulk price changes, as opposed to the CSV import/export tool. Before we look at the tool, here is a very important notice on using the CSV...
Beware using the CSV!

Do not use the CSV import/export if you have variants on your shop!


Those of you who use the CSV import/export will know not to perform any modifications on products with variants. A new CSV to do this is being developed. Unfortunately we had to develop the variants first, before the CSV import system could be started. We are pressing on with this and hope to unveil itin the New Year.

DO NOT USE THE CSV TOOL FOR BULK PRICE CHANGES IF YOU HAVE PRODUCT VARIANTS. THIS WILL CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO YOUR SHOP.

Yes we do keep backups of all your online shops daily, but you will lose any orders changes etc. from the backup time/date forward.

Even if you do not have variants, you will find the new tax/price change tool very useful, easier than the CSV tool....

The Tax/Price change tool

Bulk Price Change Tool in you ekmPowershop.com control panel...


We have added a tool to the control panel which allows you to select products or categories (or all products) and perform a percentage or value increase, across all of the items you select. Great if your prices have slid up or down by a set amount.

ekmPinpoint - web stats - web tracker software We have basically enhanced the 'Stock Control Manager' so you can also bulk modify prices.

To get to this tool simply go to 'Settings' and then click on 'Stock Control'.

Now you should now see 2 tabs within the stock controller.

In this section you will see two new option

Stock Control Manager - Bulk Price Change System
Enable this option if you would like to bulk update your product prices via the Stock Control Manager - you can choose to have this as active or disabled

Stock Control Manager - Display Products that appear in multiple categories
Display Product only in its Master Category - Display Product in all Categories it is assigned to

Once you have chosen what you wish to edit. Click on the right hand tab named 'Stock Control Manager'.
ekmPinpoint - web stats - web tracker software

Here you will see the screen for the new tool.
You can specify which products or categories you wish to modify by selecting from the drop down menu (see below/right).

We have also added a new option to display all products in the drop down list.


Once you have selected the category or 'All Products', a list of products will appear, like in the illustration.

Simply tick the box on the products you wish to change the prices on.

Then you'll need to work out how much you'll need to remove from your prices to offer the new Vat rates to your customers.

ekmPowershop Support

Please contact our Support team.

If you have a problem with changing your vat settings. Customer support will be more than happy to help. Please email our support team support@ekmsystems.co.uk


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