#ednonstop - calculate tax
flat aurora
I just enabled this feature on stripe dashboard and want stripe to calculate tax for customers automatically
I haven't done it yet
timid lark
Okay so you are using automatic tax calculation.
flat aurora
I want to know how to get tax. I'm using SetupIntent and PaymentIntent. My task is to estimate and show my users tax before they make payment
Can you tell me how it can be done
timid lark
Looking into this. At what point in your flow are you wanting to display the tax amount (or %) to your customers?
flat aurora
User goes into basket, click "Place Order" and see "Confirm Payment" screen with total payment and taxes info. Then he click "Confirm" and stripe payment popup appear.
So basically it must be seen just before payment popup will appear
timid lark
What is the payment popup in this case?
timid lark
The only API I can find that will return the tax rate prior to the purchase is the Stripe Customer API:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-tax
At that point in your app, do you already know who the Customer is?
flat aurora
Yes , i just checked the customer object i received
but there is no tax field inside it
maybe need to complete some requirements
timid lark
the tax property is not expanded by default. You need to request it expand=['tax']
flat aurora
oh
timid lark
But this will only get populated after the user adds a payment method (so we get the IP address and location info)
Or makes a payment
flat aurora
expand=['tax']
is this a query parameter for Retrieve a customer request?
i'm using on my js backend
const customerList = await stripe.customers.list({
email: req.body.email,
limit: 1
});
or
const customer = await stripe.customers.create({
email: req.body.email
});
expand=['tax']
is this a query parameter for Retrieve a customer request?
timid lark
Expand is a parameter for the API requests. You can review how to expand using Node.js syntax here: https://stripe.com/docs/api/expanding_objects
flat aurora
Ok thanks
so in my case
it will be
const customerList = await stripe.customers.list({
email: req.body.email,
limit: 1,
expand: ['tax'],
});
am i right?
cursive yarrow
👋 stepping in as Snufkin has to step away
Yes your code above would be correct for expanding tax when listing Customers
flat aurora
ok, will try now, thanks
This property cannot be expanded (tax). You may want to try expanding 'data.tax' instead."
cursive yarrow
Are you creating Subscriptions?
cursive yarrow
Okay well you can't collect tax via Stripe with that integration unfortunately.
We don't support automatic tax on PaymentIntents without using the Orders API
Which isn't supported on the Mobile SDKs yet.
flat aurora
So there is no manual way to calculate the tax with current integration, right?
cursive yarrow
With just PaymentIntents and SetupIntents you would have to handle tax yourself on Mobile.
Unless you use Invoices
That would be the other way to do this on Mobile for one-off payments
flat aurora
With just PaymentIntents and SetupIntents you would have to handle tax yourself ...
handle from where? can you clarify
cursive yarrow
You would include it in your own calculation of the PaymentIntent amount.
Stripe can't calculate tax for you if you only use a PaymentIntents/SetupIntents integration.
flat aurora
You would include it in your own calculation of the PaymentIntent amount.
Yes, but from where i can get tax rate for current customer to calculate it
cursive yarrow
Like I said, Stripe can't provide that. You would have to gather that yourself, perhaps using a third party or something. Stripe can't know the tax rate just based on the Customer object. That isn't how automatic tax works. Feel free to give a read through our Stripe Tax docs: https://stripe.com/docs/tax
flat aurora
ok, got it, will speak with my team , thanks