#vartul_api
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steady dawn
The collected fee was supposed to be 2.24 + sales tax (1.50) in this case so the money stayed in our account.
But the seller was only charged 2.24
rustic night
Hello! When you created the Checkout Session you explicitly set the application_fee_amount to 224 so this seems entirely expected to me. Have a look at this request: https://dashboard.stripe.com/logs/req_Mevmi4gdLdMAnk
As you pointed out, there's no way to know ahead of time how much tax is going to be, so there's no way to account for it up front. There are several workarounds I can think of, but most of them have other tradeoffs.
You could, for example, collect info and calculate tax using our Tax API before creating the Checkout Session, then turn off automatic Tax in Checkout.
You could also use separate charges and transfers, where you specify the amount to transfer to the connected account later instead of up front: https://docs.stripe.com/connect/separate-charges-and-transfers
steady dawn
Yeah that is what we do for our purchases but not for auctions. For auctions we move the money directly from buyer to seller using connect account
But seems like there is no way to use automatic sales tax and move the sales tax amount as part of this to our platform account
Is that correct?
rustic night
Correct, we don't have a way for you to tell us to include whatever the tax amount is. You'd have to handle it another way, like one of the methods I described above.
steady dawn
Ok thank you