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AvaTax

AvaTax provides you with on-the-fly and up-to-date tax calculations. This feature requires a current AvaTax OnDemand account. To access your AvaTax account or to create a new account, please visit the AvaTax website.

AvaTax Setup

Server

Choose whether to use the test server or the production server. Only select the test server if you have an AvaTax test account.

Account Number

Your AvaTax account number goes here.

License Key

The AvaTax license associated with your account goes here.

Company Code

The AvaTax company code that correlates with this business/store.

AvaTax Timeout

This will determine how long ShopSite will wait for a response from AvaTax before timing out the connection. This connection is established every time a product is added to the customer's shopping cart or the recalculate button is pressed.

Merchant Address

Street

Provide the street name and number for your business address in this field.

City

Provide the city of your business address in this field.

State/Province

Provide the state or province for your business address in this field.

Postal Code

Provide the postal code for your business address in this field.

Country

Provide the country for your business address in this field.

Tax Codes

Tax Codes

Using AvaTax, determine the tax codes you wish to assign to the products in your online store and type them here. These codes can then be assigned to your products using the Add Product/Edit Product interface.

Default

The default tax code, specified here, is used when no tax code is provided for a given product.

Shipping

All tax is handled by AvaTax. If you need to tax shipping for products, provide a shipping tax code here.

Surcharge

All tax is handled by AvaTax. If you need to tax surcharges for products, provide a surcharge tax code here.

Shopper Messages

Tax Recalculated

This message will appear when address information is provided by the customer during checkout. It is displayed in order to inform customers of possible changes to the listed tax. The default message is "Tax was recalculated due to better address information".


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Last updated: March 01, 2010
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