chambaz-tax-rates

[loud token]

@rare canyon bet you're getting fed up with my tax questions 😂

[rare canyon]

nahh it's all good! tax questions can be easier than others

I'm pretty certain there is no limit to the number of tax rates that you can create on your account (or at least I can't find one from a quick search through the code)

[loud token]

ok cool, we're providing a few options to our client here and one of those is to manually create tax rates for every zip code based on CSVs we downloaded from Avalara.

So that way we can keep using Checkout and dont need to move to custom checkout flow.

We'd need a look up table in our DB to easily be able to pull the tax ID for the specific zip code but I see this as an interim solution that enables us to keep using checkout but turn off automatic tax allowing us to support Google / Apple Pay

phew, I hate tax.

[rare canyon]

everyone hates tax 😂

[loud token]

Haha yupp

So the options Im giving to them to support apple / google pay are:

1. Move to custom checkout with Elements and use AvaTax NPM module to get the sales tax rate to display to the user prior to completing purchase. AvaTax / Stripe connector will handle actually charging the sales tax

2. Bulk upload tax rates via the API from Avalara CSV downloads and use those to allow us to stay on Stripe Checkout. This wouldn't be "real time" but we could bulk update them monthly.

Do they sound like reasonable options to you?

[rare canyon]

They're not my favorite options (ideally you'd just be able to use Stripe Tax) but I know about your limitations so these seem fine to me! To be extra sure I'd also check in with the Avatax folks since I don't know everything about their product

[loud token]

Agreed re Stripe Tax, its been working so well for us. But Apple / Google pay are seemingly extremely important to our client all of a sudden.

Appreciate your help @rare canyon, you and this Discord have been a life support for me recently!!