On this page will be given an overview of the below topics:
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How taxes are calculated
To calculate taxes, there are two specific events during the Sale Workflow:
At the Checkout level, our Tax API calls the Tax Provider (Avalara, TaxJar or DFO) that was previously configured on the campaign to know the percentage of tax for the product.
While an Order is created, the Tax API calls the Tax Provider (Avalara, TaxJar, or DFO) configured on the campaign to calculate the percentage of tax for the product. Additionally, the system will record this transaction on the Tax provider Dashboard (Avalara or TaxJar).
Please note that for the client Ontel, the 2nd step has been removed as the per the client’s request.
To adjust the 2nd point to each user/client's request, on the Campaign Settings page can be used the toggle Create tax transaction?
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When the toggle Create tax transaction? is set to ON, the system will record the tax transaction on the Tax Provider Dashboard (Avalara or TaxJar) when creating an order.
On the contrary, when the toggle Create tax transaction? is set to OFF, then no tax transaction will be recorded on the Tax Provider Dashboard (Avalara or TaxJar) when creating an order.
How taxes are calculated in the orders into CRM?
In CRM have been implemented two different tax providers, such as:
the DFO one
Avalara.
TaxJar
These two Tax Providers are working differently. Avalara is and TaxJar are a third parties provider that has been integrated into CRM.
The DFO tax system allows users to set the percentage of tax into in the Sales Model section.
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Each Sale Model has a section called: Tax configuration, where users can easily set the following:
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A more user-friendly UI has been recently developed in order to simplify the way users can include or not any of those two tax providers into in the campaigns.
How to set up Taxes
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in a CRM Campaign?
Please follow the below steps to set the taxes into the campaign.
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From the left side Menumenu, click on Campaign ManagementSelect Management> Settings
On the right side of the page, please select one of the campaigns already available or click on the Create New button to build a new campaign
Once you are on the Campaign page, please go to the right side of the page and select the Campaign Settings, from the listed topics
Under the Campaign Settings, there is a section called: Payment Settings, on this part there a few feasible options, such as:
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the Charge Tax. switch On/Off button to include or not the Tax Provider in the Campaign
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The toggle Allow Pre authorization: when turned ON will allow the purchases to be verified by a 2-step authorization, where the payment provider would receive the information of a new transaction, and only after the payment provider replies authorizing it, the transaction would be completed.
The toggle Charge Tax.: having turned to ON will allow the user to decide whether DFO or a third party company called Avalara or TaxJar would process the calculation of all taxes involved in the transaction, calculating them by country rule, depending on where the product was configured to be available at.
The toggle Allow check and cash: when set to ON, the campaign will allow users to place new orders by paying with a check or in cash
To do so, users need to:
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The toggle Tax included in price? that have the tax embedded into the order grand total (for example: the product is sold for $100 on the website, customers are paying $100 and on this $100, there is the percentage of taxes already) or separate from the cost of the product (for example the product cost $90 on the website, but at the end, customers are charged $100, because $10 are taxes).
The toggle Create tax transaction?: By switching to ON the toggle Create Tax Transaction?, if the campaign has been set to charge taxes (Avalara or TaxJar) to customers then this value is recorded on the Tax Provider Dashboard. On the contrary, when the toggle Create tax transaction? is set to OFF, then no tax transaction will be recorded on the Tax Provider Dashboard (Avalara or TaxJar) when creating an order.
Tax Provider field with a small drop-down menu, where the user can choose between DFO the tax provider or Avalara.
6. Once all the campaign and tax provider details have been set, click on the green Save button on the right side of the page.
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Please note that if DFO has been set as Tax Provider, users can add the specific Sales Model to the Campaign, scrolling down from the Campaign Settings to the Product area, on this area, there is a field where the Sale Model can be chosen (see below example). |
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