Country specific localisation reports

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Hi @Patch and everyone,

I’m trying to use the above feature to include my country’s GST Returns form within Manager

Please see below the copy of the GST Returns.

GST RETURNS FORM.pdf (314.2 KB)

Thank you

Lance

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As the developer has written in other forum topics, your efforts are a little premature. The feature is currently experimental. And the goal for Manager is not to replicate the look of national forms, but to furnish the information necessary to complete them.

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Lance
To write a Country specific localisation for GST returns you need to

  1. Enter tax codes to describe you Countries GST requirements

  2. Check you can manually fill in your countries GST returns form from: Manager → Report → Tax Summary

  3. Identify the the specific quantities actually reported back to your tax authority, as it is only these which your Country specific localisation should actually calculate and show.

  4. Create a localisation report to show these values.

  5. Test your new localisation. Often most easily done in a test business where a single transaction is tested on it’s own.

  6. Give you localisation to NG Software for inclusion in the general distribution. In the past this was done by How to implement country-specific report in Manager - #31 by lubos this but maybe an excessive barrier to entry in the future.

To do step 4. in practice you will need

  • To wait for Lubos to finish the newest version of Country specific localisation, which apparently does not require coding per se. Lubos has said he thinks this is close. Note creating a general report writer does require understanding the general case and exactly how the output should respond to the input data, which is the core function of coding.

  • A maintained guide or wiki to describe how the Country specific localisation report writing environment actually works. In the past Managers report generation environments have been assumed to be self documenting. The very limited use in practice has confirmed only a minority of users are prepared to reverse engineer Managers data structure and exposed programming tools to work out how to write country specific localisation, write custom reports, write custom themes or interface to the “API”. But maybe this is just wishful thinking as in my opinion the previous tools were relatively easy to use if you knew how. The problems was there was no documentation so almost no one knew how to use the tools.

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@Patch , thank you