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Re: VAT Receipt sent out to all buyers via PayPal?

by FieldStar Contributor in Buying with PayPal
‎Nov-06-2012 12:34 AM
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Unfortunately it doesn't help. I sell to commercial customers who need a receipt that itemises out the VAT (just as it does if they purchase using 'buy it now'). While I can include the VAT in the subscription price I then need to manually produce an invoice for the client every month, which is a joke. PayPal needs to get its act together. ... View more

Re: VAT Receipt sent out to all buyers via PayPal?

by FieldStar Contributor in Buying with PayPal
‎Nov-01-2012 05:47 AM
‎Nov-01-2012 05:47 AM
Does anyone know if there's been any movement on this?   I've noticed that when a customer makes a single purchase (as opposed to a subscription purchase) the email I receive as the seller is laid out like a VAT receipt (and I assume the customer receives something similar). However, when the payment is part of a subscription, the email is very poorly laid out and contains no VAT information.   Surely this must be in PayPal's list of things to change. We've recently started offering monthly subscriptions for our clients as oan alternative to one-off payments, but the manual workload required to produce manual VAT receipts is ridiculous and my customers see the fact they have to ask for one each time as poor customer service.   ... View more
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