Sales Tax Help

General General Questions
1

I tried doing a search but couldn’t find what I needed. How do I set up sales tax? I went under SHIPPING/TAXES > TAXES > I went into the edit of the VAT that is there and named sales tax and set everything on that page > TAX RATES



I see the USA, but I can only charge sales tax for Texas. How do I set the tax rate for Texas only?

2

I’ve read through post [url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=2202&highlight=sales+tax[/url] but where do I find “manage destinations”? I guess I’m using 2.1.2, don’t know where to find v#. Installed by webhost.

3

OK, I’ve got it now. Had to go to SHIPPING/TAXES > LOCATIONS > ADD LOCATION > Named TX (for Texas) > Go down to the states box and scroll to United States: Texas > Click on it then click the green arrow pointing left.



Clicked back on TAXES > ADD TAX > Named TX > Priority 1 > Left Reg. # blank > Rates on Billing Address > Status Active > Price includes tax unchecked



TAX RATES > (Now TX is there) Put 8.25 and type Percent (%)





Then I had the fun part of figuring out how shipping worked. When I tried the store, kept telling me no shipping was set up. Finally figured that out. Now I believe I’m on my way. That is until I start working in another area. :smiley:

4

Glad you figured it out… thanks for sharing your solution

5

So how exactly you figured the shipping part? I think I’m having the same problem, keeps telling me “no shipping options are available for your location.”



thanks for sharing.


6

Yeah I’m curious how to you figured out shipping as well. I’m stuck on the shipping portion after I got the taxes functioning (same error you had).

7

I think I figured it out.



Basically, from what I’m seeing, you have to create say a custom shipping type.



Each location you have must have some kind of value associated with it (the top one that you can’t delete doesn’t seem to count).



So, from scratch:


  1. You’ll create some locations (let’s say Arizona Only, and then All Other States)


  2. You create a custom Shipping method (in my case, it was “5 to 7 day free shipping in the US”).


  3. Under the Shipping Method → Shipping Charges → “Show Rates for Location” box: each location had to have a dependency added to it.



    Under “Arizona Only” I added a dependency saying anything over $.01 gave the user a shipping cost of $0. Then under “All Other States”, I did the same thing.



    Then it finally gave me the shipping calculations in the checkout process.