Today we are pleased to announce that our new website now detects for a good number of countries which country you are in (more to be added soon)

As a result we are able to automatically present the website to you in the currency of the country that you are logging in from

Secondly, this functionality allows us to correctly present the products with or without sales tax (VAT), which we must charge on shipments to any EU country, unless you are VAT registered in that country and you pass our validation tests on your VAT registration number (and it is not being shipped to the UK)

This allows people in EU countries to see our products with tax included in the price and people from outside the EU to see out products with tax excluded, as they will be taxed at the border of thier country for any purchase of significant value (generally not parts, but almost always machine purchases)

Finally if you place a machine in the shopping cart you will see that today we have added functionality that adds in all the free products that are supplied with every new machine so you are very clear on what you will receive (we still need to add this for the LONDINIUM I/II/III, but it is in place for the LONDINIUM R today

there are many cosmetic issues that i expect will take more than a month to iron out, but we are addressing the issues in order of priority, and in particular the functionality that we have wanted to introduce for some time but have been prevented from doing so until we migrated from our old webstore platform to this new one

Expect to see further enhancements to the website roll out over time.  I am acutely aware that we need to significantly improve the images we use for our spare parts, for example, but this will take some time to execute, but little by little we are moving the pieces into place

have a good weekend

reiss.