Ok so I've used a template that I modified to suit in SCDP, then of course imported in to SCCP and made the shop...
When a customer completes their purchasing adn then goes the cart they select their shipping options etc. And the shipping is added along with a field that says "Estmated Taxes" and the amount of tax.

Can someone tell please how to change this "Estimated tax" to just "Tax". after all I dont understand how tax is only estimated. It has to be right.

I has looked under the SCDP in the CART section, unable to find it, And looked in SCCP and am unable to find anything for it.

I must be overlooking it, i'm sure of this.

I think you'll have to dig into the files created by the cart and alter the html.

Hey Eric,

Took your advice, found it in the cart.inc.php file, which was located in the //ccdata/data folder.
quick edit and fixed it, was also located in cart.xml file found under /ccdata/templates folder.

From what i can see the site works like its supposed to, so hopefully that will solve it.

Hi Jeff,

This is something that's been driving my customers crazy and I have two shops. One is hosted here in Ireland on my local service provider and I have done what you did as I can get the files over ftp.

But, the shop I have on S-Drive is not so easy. In CC Direct FTP when I connect to S-Drive, I am not allowed to access the files. I've asked Scott about it and it seems these scripts are shared on S-Drive and therefore users are not permitted to customise them.

Hopefully an update will resolve this. Or maybe someone with some influence could persuade the powers that be in CC that this term "estimated" is useless, inappropriate, confusing and just plain wrong. We're losing sales over it and I am sure others are too.

I'll ask Scott to do this, but I have no idea if he will or not! Maybe CC have some reason for calling it estimated tax, but I for one can not think of any positive reason for such a misleading name for what is tax / vat / sales tax (depending on where you are in the world)

We live in hope!

Dave

I will discuss this with the team tomorrow and see what we can do about this. It maybe something we can address very easily for shops hosted on S-Drive since we would not need to create a new installer for that modification.

I will post back here when I have more information.

Gentlemen,

With thanks to our champion, the one and only Scott, I am happy to reveal a workaround which solves this issue.

NB: Before reading on, please note: a) backup the original file BEFORE doing what I am suggesting, in case you do anything wrong, and b) do not try this unless you feel confident about it.

To alter the text displayed as "estimated tax", you need to do a bit of trickery... Here goes:

In your C:\Program Files\CoffeeCup Software\Shopping Cart Creator Pro\ directory you'll find a folder called js and in there a file called ShoppingCart.dat. This is actually a disguised archive. So, make a copy (backup) and then rename it to ShoppingCart.zip and open it.

In the archive you'll find a file called shop.js. Open this in CC HTML Editor (or notepad etc.) and on line 82 you'll see: scc_jquery("#cart_taxes_total_label").html( 'Estimated taxes:' ).

You simply change this line to scc_jquery("#cart_taxes_total_label").html( 'WHATEVER YOU LIKE:' ) and then save this script.

If you extracted the file, you now need to recompile the archive, but if you opened it within the archive, you can merely save it and then save & close the archive.

Next, rename the archive to revert to the original .dat extension.

Now, publish your shop and go shopping. When you look in your cart and select location etc. the cart total should show YOUR WORDING: instead of Estimated taxes:

Job done

That might be what I am looking for. I have found the estimated taxes in many more files since writing my other response. and have removed all that I can find, however when i go in to the shop, it still shows estimated taxes until you do a refresh on the page.

Thanks guys for your help with this.

Hi Jeff,

I have only made the change as detailed above and it alone has given me what I want. You can see it in action on S-Drive at http://shop.fixtronix.com and on a non S-Drive host at http://shop.fixtronix.ie

Dave

Hey David, I followed your instructions, and it worked like a dream. Thank you, you have solved an issue that was beginning to make me pull my hair out...

The only thing I found different, was for me I use a 64 bit version of WIN7, so the file was in the C:\Program Files(x86)\CoffeeCup Software\Shopping Cart Creator Pro\ , only a small change due to the 64 bit OS. Just for anyone else who may read this thread with a similar issue.

Thank you David and Eric for you help and suggestions.

Scott I think this will be a worthwhile change for the installer when you do a revision on it as well as the s-drive. Thank you for watching this thread as well, Scott

Waking a sleeping dog here, but I am not working with S-Drive and I've made the changes to the two files Jeff mentioned, but I still get the "Estimated Taxes" label. If I hit F5 to refresh the page, it then does go to VAT as I want, but only if I hit that F5.

Any ideas what else I need to do?

Thanks!