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GeoDynamic value added tax

For offers where you expect bookings from different countries and therefore need to use different VAT rates, edoobox offers the GeoDynamic VAT function. This function allows the system to determine the country of the person making the booking and automatically apply the corresponding VAT rate. This ensures that the correct VAT rate is always applied to the booking total and shown correctly according to your settings.

How the GeoDynamic value-added tax works

edoobox uses the IP address of the person making the booking to identify the country from which the booking originates. If a specific VAT rate is stored in your edoobox account for this country, it will be applied automatically. Otherwise, the standard VAT rate of the edoobox account will be used. You have the option of specifying for each offer whether a fixed VAT rate or the GeoDynamic VAT option should be used.

Overwrite the automatically determined country

Is that Standard data field Country is active in the registration form, the person making the booking can select a country and the location determined from the IP address is displayed. overwritten. If there is a VAT rate for the selected country, this will be used, otherwise the system will fall back on the VAT rate stored as standard. Are Several VAT rates per country edoobox selects the first VAT rate that matches the country. This also applies to backend bookings and collective registrations, whereby the country of the contact person or the main participant is decisive here.

Please note: Changes to existing bookings

Please note that the VAT rate is not automatically updated in the event of subsequent changes to the participant country in an existing booking. In such cases, the booking must be canceled and recreated.

Availability of GeoDynamic VAT

The GeoDynamic VAT option is available as soon as you have activated at least two different VAT rates from different countries in your edoobox account. You can activate this option individually for each offer in the offer settings.

This screenshot shows the user interface of edoobox, the online booking system. The settings for VAT in a specific offer with the GeoDynamic VAT option are highlighted.

In the offer settings: Select the GeoDynamic VAT

Info: Additional services

You can enter a fixed VAT rate for additional services . The GeoDynamic VAT function is not applicable here and the specified VAT rate remains the same regardless of the country of the person making the booking.

Adding VAT rates

Define globally in your edoobox account which VAT rates should be available and whether they are included or excluded in the price. To do this, please follow these instructions.

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Keywords for these instructions

Value added tax | VAT Rate | GeoDynamic | GeoDynamic VAT | international bookings | location-based | bookings from abroad | VAT

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