How do I charge shipping fees?

As shipping costs (and any other type of cost) are generally subject to VAT, they must be entered in the lines of the Invoice, like any other Item-Service. Of course, this requires that they have been previously defined in the Item-Service file.

You may need to define several item records to deal with certain specific cases; for example, the postage costs for shipments weighing less than five kilos are exempt from VAT. In this case, you can define two item records:

Shipping costs for parcels lighter than 5 Kg, VAT Code 1 (Rate 0 %)
Shipping costs for parcel heavier than 5 Kg, VAT Code X (Rate 8.1 %)