How is it possible to add our company's VAT number to our customer's receipt emails?

Question

I've done a bit of research into this, and checked various suggestions, but can't locate a simple way of inserting our company's VAT number into receipts for our customer's. We have our VAT number entered in System > Configuration > General > Store Information

And we have Enable Automatic Assignment to Customer Group in System > Customer > Customer Configuration set to Yes. But still we can't get it to appear anywhere.

We've also experimented with adding a new transactional email in with some code included at the end to try to manually add the VAT number in, we've tried:

{{var order.getData(’customer_taxvat’)}}

For example, and a few other slight variations, but NOTHING get's pulled in at all :(

Any ideas on how to solve this one?

Answer 1

I think you just need {{config path="general/store_information/merchant_vat_number"}} to display your own vat number.

--Edit

Here's the vat number I put in settings

Here's my template in System/Transactional Emails

And here's what I get when I press preview

I'd check your preview first to make sure that works, then check you you've changed the template you're using in System/Configuration/Sales Emails

Answer 2

Go to C:\XAMPPROOT\workspace\dark\app\code\core\Mage\Sales\Model\Order\Pdf

public function insertConditions($page)
    {
        $page->drawLine(25, $this->y, 570, $this->y); 
        $this->y -= 100;
        $page->drawText(Mage::helper('sales')->__('VAT TIN 27740375125 V w.e.f. 01-04-2006 CST TIN 27740375125 C w.e.f. 01-04-2006'), 35, $this->y, 'UTF-8');
    }
$this->insertConditions($page); // the custom text is added here
        $this->_afterGetPdf();
        return $pdf;**

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