Crestron dealers got an email today that states: "The Tariff Surcharge will initially be set at 12% of the total gross amount of all hardware items included on each invoice, prior to the application of any discounts, sales tax, or shipping charges, but will not be applied to services and software subscriptions." We are looking on how we want to handle this, but this is a huge can of worms. We now need to, per project, manually calculate a 12% surcharge on these items specifically starting May 1st. We can group the Crestron BOM items affected by this surchage into their own location or system and add an allowance that calculates the 12% surchage, but that then breaks any other groups that we would want/need for quoting/sorting purposes. So at first glance, an allowance that can calculate based on 'Manufacturer' would solve this problem, especially if we have multiple manufacturers that have a similar model but different percentages, each can have a different allowance and calculation percentage. I am open to other methods, but this is my first thought. Would appreciate feedback from DT if this is a legit feature request or if another method is more appropriate. Seems like just raising all costs by 12% isn't appropriate either as the item costs we would get from the manufacturer and ultimately through vendor syncing would not include this surcharge as Crestron is stating that the surcharge will be a line item on the invoice rather than a price increase on individual items.
