Adding additional grant money to quote after GST

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Nathan Birch

• December 09, 2020 23:49

Hi Open Solar fellow users.Nathan from South Australia here. We have been using O.S. for about 6 weeks now and have pretty much everything set up.

 

We do a lot of work in Agriculture and have additional Gov Grant money on top of the STC rebate. I have been trying to add this Grant money as an incentive but keep running into a problem. O.S. deducts the additional incentive dollars pre GST but I need it to be deducted after the GST is added

 

Example

System Price ex GST

Minus STC ex GST

Plus 10% GST

Minus Grant money

 

System $23,351 ex GST

Minus $8,066 STC ex GST

= $15,285 ex GST

+ 10% GST = $16,813.50

- Grant $6724 = $10,089.50

 

Total payable by customer = $10089.50

 

I have tried a couple of different ways but it keeps taking the Grant money before the GST is applied and reduces the price to $8561

 

Any thoughts?

 

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  OpenSolar Support

  • December 10, 2020 01:37

  Hi Nathan, 

  Thanks for writing in! I have not heard this request before, but I would be happy to look into this and confer with my team mates to see if the settings can be tweaked to achieve the calculations that you are looking for. I will get back to you on this. 

  Otherwise I would be very curious to hear if others have had a similar issue and if they have any ideas. 

  Kind regards, 

  Dion

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  Nathan Birch

  • December 10, 2020 04:13

  Thank you Dion

  If it helps the Grant money is a percentage (40%) off of the GST inclusive price of $16813.5

   

  I have created a priced based incentive to installer but just need it to be able to do the 40% calculation on the GST inc fiqure and take the additional Grant money after the GST is added and not before.

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  OpenSolar Support

  • December 10, 2020 23:26

  Thanks for the additional information, Grant. 

  Kind regards, 

  Dion

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  OpenSolar Support

  • December 15, 2020 04:14

  Hi Grant, 

  I just wanted to give you an update on this. 

  After conferring with my team mates I have found that the reason why this would not be applying correctly is due to how the tax is currently treated for price based incentives. I will log this with the development team. 

  However, there is a workaround which I wanted to share so that you are able to model this grant in OpenSolar. The workaround is to manually add in the 40% grant exclusive of GST in the Studio zone in the incentives section:

  

   

  After adding the grant this way you will be able to see the quotation table gives you the final amount as follows:

   

  

  So the Purchase price is shown ex GST but when the GST is added you can see it is agreeing with the calculations that you gave earlier. 

  I hope this is helpful to let you utilise OpenSolar and sell more solar. 

  Kind regards, 

  Dion

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