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WP eStore Tax Calculation

Charging sales tax for your products when using WP eStore plugin to sell your product(s) is very easy. There are a few ways you can use the tax feature of eStore:

  • Use the built-in tax feature of eStore.
  • Use the PayPal’s profile based tax feature.
  • Use the table rate tax addon.
  • Use the TaxCloud integration.

Using the Built-in Tax Feature of eStore

Simply enable the tax calculation option from the settings menu and specify the tax rate for your store and that’s it.

WP eStore Tax Settings

Sometimes you maybe selling product(s) where sales tax is not applicable or you may want to charge a different tax rate for a particular item. With eStore you can achieve that by overriding the tax rate for a particular product from the individual product’s tax option:

Overriding Sales Tax for an Individual Product

The sales tax is displayed in the shopping cart when the tax feature is enabled (the following is an example screenshot of the shopping cart with tax feature enabled)

WP eStore Cart Screenshot

Using the PayPal Profile Based Tax Feature

Please see the how to use regional or international sales tax when selling via PayPal post for this option.

WP eStore Table Rate Tax

Table rate tax allows you to charge tax in the shopping cart based on the customer’s country. See the table rate tax addon page for details.

Table Rate Tax by Item Type

The Table Rate Tax by Item Types addon allows you to charge tax in the shopping cart based on the user’s country and type of items they are purchasing.

Using TaxCloud Integration

WP eStore has an integration with TaxCloud, a free sales tax management service, to automatically calculate tax for every address in the United States.

View the eStore TaxCloud addon page to get more details on this integration.

WP eStore and MemberWing Plugin Integration

WP eStore can be integrated with the MemberWing Plugin.

MemberWing Plugin Integration Steps

Step 1: You will need one piece of information from the MemberWing plugin. So browse to the “Integration with other systems” menu from the “MemberWing-X” section of your WordPress Dashboard:

Admin dashboard => MemberWing-X => Integration with other systems

Step 2: Copy the URL from “MemberWing Universal Paypal Postback URL” field. It will look something like the following:

http://www.your-domain.com/wp-content/plugins/memberwing-x/mwx-notify-paypal.php?mwx_api_key=dfb0e9e3b9359541&skip_postback=1

Step 3: Browse to the “3rd Party Integration” tab from the WP eStore’s settings menu and paste the above URL in the “MemberWing Integration Settings” section:

MemberWing Plugin Integration

All done, now when someone makes a purchase using a payment button configured using eStore, it will automatically create a membership account for that customer.