Contributors: ivycat, sewmyheadon, gehidore, dgilfoy
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Tags: tax, taxes, destination based, sales tax, ecommerce, shopp, washington
Requires at least: 3.4
Tested up to: 3.6-beta4-24560
Stable tag: 1.1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
This plugin ties Shopp, a WordPress e-commerce plugin, into Washington State's Department of Revenue API to lookup destination-based sales tax and calculate it on the fly.
Washington State is a destination-based sales tax state. As a Washington-based business, if you sell taxable items within WA, you charge the tax rate of the destination you're shipping to, rather than the rate of where you're shipping from.
When selling digital goods, the billing address is use to calculate tax.
Most e-commerce platforms have relatively rudimentary tax calculation tools and tables. Shopp, while robust, doesn't have the ability to calculate the actual sales tax in Washington State based on destination address and zip.
When enabled, the customer's zip and address information is passed up to the WA DOR along with some basic information about the order and it returns the actual tax rate, and amount for the ship-to address.
Find out more about Washington's Destination-based Sales Tax
Like most WordPress plugins, you can install from within the WordPress Admin under Plugins > Add New.
To install manually:
- Upload the
washington-state-sales-tax-for-shoppfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Go to Shopp Setup > WA State Tax and click Enabled under Washington Sales Tax
- If you wish to tax digital downloads as well, click Enabled under Tax Downloads
- Shopp will automatically get the destination-based sales tax for all orders shipped to Washington State.
Nope, just Washington State.
Sorry, just Washington State.
I'm not sure if I need to use this plugin. I live in Washington, but don't know if I need to collect sales tax. Can you help?
Unfortunately, we can't advise you what taxes you're liable to pay the State of Washington.
We recommend that you contact the Washington Department of Revenue or your accountant.
My accountant says I should use this plugin; can you help make sure it's installed correctly, provide customization, or help me with other Shopp questions?
Absolutely. Please contact us and let us know what you need and we'll be happy to provide an estimate.
###1. Enabling the plugin screenshot-1.png###
###2. WA State Tax for Shopp in action screenshot-2.png###
*** Enhancement:** plugin forces zip entry for digital downloads.
- Updated alert styles in cart
- Fixed version - last release should have been 1.1.0 due to new features
*** Bug fix:** plugin now allows taxing of digital downloads.
*** Admin panel:** incorporated toggle to enable/disable taxing of downloads.
- Updated documentation.
- Moved settings page to Shopp > Setup
*** Bug fix:** plugin now honors tax shipping selection under Shopp Setup/Taxes/Settings.
- Minor plugin housekeeping only; no bug fixes.
- Style updates in WP Dashboard.
- Minor housekeeping, bug fix for tax collection on promotional pricing.
- Initial release.
- Important update
- Important update if you sell downloadable products within Washington.
Please upgrade: importan bug fix.
Not urgent; no change to functionality; just plugin housekeeping and documentation.
Fixed tax collection bug on promo items; important update.
- You just installed, yeah?