A recent topic asking how people split shipping costs made me think of a new feature request.

As opposed to just having purchase date\place\price it would also be nice if a few more fields were added such as shipping/tax and maybe an order #.

I personally include shipping/tax in my price paid because I want to know (well after I see the number I usually regret it) how much I actually spent, and to me the tax and/or shipping is money I spent on the DVD. The main advantages to splitting this out would be that reports could then be run on different aspects (ie, total spent on tax, total spent on shipping, raw dvd cost, total dvd costs, etc) An order number would allow you to see what dvds were purchased together. this could further be expanded to possibly have orders (or PO's if you will) and then attach the shipping and/or tax to the order has a whole.

It could even be done so you first create the order with the information:
order #, shipping, tax, date (2 dates 1 for ordered, 1 for received?), store name (possibly total)
then instead of adding the current information to the dvd you just say it was part of order 12345 and how much that item cost. It could then just split shipping among the items in that order by price/qty (user setting, price uses more shipping for more expensive, qty would just be if 5 dvds in order each is 1/5 of shipping) and split tax out by tax per item.

not everyone would want this, but i could see a setting to have advanced purchase info or simple purchase info. simple would stay as it is and advanced would give you all this other info. This could even be done with just how its displayed/filled in and it could still be stored the same way for each situation behind the scenes

-Agrare

I would use it if it were there.  But that's really only because  I know I would never leave a field blank if I knew the information that belonged there. 

Right now I just include shipping and tax in the price as I really only want to know what I spent (well, as you said, I don't REALLY  want to know, but that's another story altogether...)

hmmm, maybe I should have asked for more comments or made a poll that didn't quite cover everything so people had to comment

I currently include shipping and tax in my price, but my thought for this is that it would be nice to see the total shipping spent. Or since I do purchase from in multiple states would be nice to see/calculate more info on the tax, such as average rate, etc.

I have e-mail (and pdf) records of my purchases as well, but I can't report on those, or would have to create/enter them into a seperate database/excel sheet to do so. But i already keep my dvd collection in dvd profiler, so why not just have them there and be able to run the reports and get that information in one spot. That's the same thing with keeping it in notes field (which I am thinking of doing) but then I don't have the reportability of it, and if there is one thing I've learned at work, information is only as good as your ability to report/display it.

-Agrare

Have those who thought this was a good idea considered the work done to update all their profiles with this information? And if they didn't and only entered for new dvds.. what use would it be?

yep I've wanted this for ages. As I order close to 100% of all my dvd's online, I frequently pay shipping, tax, duty, have coupons and an order number. So, I'd love dvdprofiler to be able to track all that. I don't see why as some would say I have to use another application to do it, as its totally related to my dvd's.

I can't see dvdprofiiler doing this, however actually having customisable user fields would do me fine. Currently I put in xml code in the notes, which isn't the best way as I (a) have to remember and (b) frequently make typo's.