Hi fewleh,

That's a good question... never tried that before. This would require some delving into VM to see if the non-tax price is available in any form.

If it is, then it's easy to control this with Chameleon. What I'd do is this:

1 - in Chameleon, set up a rule with the appropriate conditions. In the SUCCEED action, put:  define("DONT_SHOW_TAX",true);

2 - then in your VM theme (e.g. components/virtuemart/themes/default/templates/common/price.tpl.php), you can use the DONT_SHOW_TAX constant to switch which price is displayed. (providing, as I said, that that info is available from somewhere).

e.g.

if (defined("DONT_SHOW_TAX")) {
// put the display code in here
} else {
// put the old display code in here, for display WITH taxes.
}


Alternatively, you could try the shopper group trick that you suggested, but again I don't know how that would work, or if it's possible to force people into a certain group "on the fly" if that's what you are suggesting.

Ummm... perhaps this is the simple solution: what's stopping you from just modifying the default shopper group and setting it to display prices without tax?

Cheers,
Stephen

Ok, I'm going to give this a little time today. I'm looking for a way to change the shopper group on-the-fly. I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers,
Stephen

p.s. there's a limit to how much time I can spend on this, sorry, as it's really above and beyond the normal support for the product.

Hi,

I'm also very interested in a solution to change the VM shopper group depending on GeoIP. My customer also needs VM discounts depending on the country of the shopper.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Stefan

UPDATE:

From Chameleon 2.58 (June 2016) there are facilities to do the following with Chameleon:

1 - change VM shopper group
2 - change VM currency
3 - force VM into "catalog mode" i.e. show prices but not allow the Cart or checkout.
4 - show or hide prices on product pages.

This means these are no longer "global" options but can be turned on and off on a per-page basis.
Chameleon can control any of these options using all its power of detecting different conditions:

- GeoIP (country of origin)
- date ranges or seasons of the year
- time of day or days of the week
- selected currency (e.g. allow the user to select their own currency, then use that to determine their shopper group)
- domain that the user used to view the site
- and anything else Chameleon can detect.

Enjoy the power!