How website CMS users handle the VAT rise
First of all, Happy New Year to you all. 2011 has many challenges ahead - the first one is the change of VAT Tax rate from 17.5% to 20%. Which is nice. But spare a thought for the poor people who have to update all their prices online. Do they take a hit and lose 2.5% per sale or update every product manually. There is a third way...
Most CMS users will this week be doing the following:
- Taking a list of their 300 or so products and working out via spreadsheet or calculator what the new price of their VAT-affected stock is
- Logging in their CMS
- Clicking Products or Catalogue
- Viewing each Category in turn
- Clicking each Product in each Category
- Changing price A to price B
- Pressing Save
- repeats x 100
- Gets distracted when the phone rings, someone needs them to do something
- Comes back an hour later, does another 50 products before it's time for lunch
- Gets back to the desk, their login has timed out so repeats steps 1-4
- Updates 100 products, has a bit of a dizzy-spell headache so has a lie down
- Finally update the last 50 products, just as their manager tells them that 75 of the products are no longer stocked in 2011 and they needn't have bothered.
On the other hand, Harris CMS users do the following:
- Log into the CMS
- Click the Parameters link
- Update VAT from 17.5 to 20
- Save
All stock prices are updated automatically in a few milliseconds rounded to the pence or to the pound, depending on their default setting.
Harris CMS - both user & coalition-government friendly.

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