Question: I created a new Sale Tax code in POS and assigned it to a Customer but it had no affect on the sales tax charged by the POS system. Why is that?
Answer: POS uses only the default tax rate in the Sales Tax defaults tab in the POS Control File to calculate the amount of sales tax in a taxable sale. The logic employed in POS is that, “I don't care where the customer is from that comes up to my cash register- this is the tax rate I will charge them in my garden center.” You can ring a customer up through Active Accounting and charge them whatever sales tax rate you want to. POS was given the ability to create new Sales Tax codes and assign any of them to Customers so that new Customers can be created in POS and then in most cases (unless you are a POS only user) posted to the main AA system where further business may be transacted with them there.
Question: Could I actually set up another separate POS session on a machine to operate at a different Tax rate? Can you run two separate POS “Sessions” on one machine?
Answer: Yes, you would maintain two separate folders on that one machine- one for each POS system. For example: Active POS and Active POS2. 'Copy' Active POS and 'Paste' to Active POS2, then create a set of icons pointing to Active POS2. You know how an icon has 'properties' and a 'target' field...? You can check out the properties of the original 4 Icons if you need a hint.