Mix of Taxable & Non Taxable Items

Can eCart handle tax on a per-item basis?

I need to calculate a tax rule where sales tax is only calculated for designated items. I have a column in the cart called "taxable." For each item, tax should be calculated only if the value of this column is 1.

in the add to cart button, set the value for the taxable column to 12 for items that should be taxed and 0 for items that should not be taxed

Then in the eCart object, set the tax rule up on the tax tab.

Set the trigger to "Number of items With A Specific Column value":
If the total Number of items where 'taxable' has a value of '1' is '>' than a value of '0'


Set the calculation to "based on items with a specific value":
Total of 'TotalPrice' where 'taxable' has a value of '1' 'times' '.10'

replace '.10' with the correct tax rate you wish to use.

I'm getting total tax of $0, even when I have one taxable item in the cart.

I double checked and the value of "taxable" is 12 for the taxable item and 0 for the non taxable item. Here is the eCart code - perhaps I have something set incorrectly?:

function WAEC_moringa_cart_SalesTax() {
$totalTax = 0;
if (true && (($this->GetTaxableTotal() > 0) && ((isset($_SESSION['cust_shipst'])?$_SESSION['cust_shipst']:"") == "CA") && ($this->ConditionalTotal("Quantity", "taxable", "1") > 0))) {
$totalTax += ($this->ConditionalTotal("TotalPrice", "taxable", "1") * .0875);//Result
}
return WA_eCart_FormatNumber($totalTax, $this->ForceDecimalsC, $this->DecimalPlacesC);
}

Sorry, that was a typo in my previous reply, the taxable items need to be set to 1 in the add to cart button, not 12, I guess I had fat fingers when typing the previous instructions.

Perfect - it worked! Thanks!

You're welcome.

I've followed the above instructions to add item specific tax/notax rules to an existing cart system. However, I'm not getting tax applied and I'm having trouble figuring out where the breakdown is. The detail.php page is pulling the '1' properly from the products table, and the Add from Recordset behavior appears to be passing that same Taxable value correctly. However, the cart.php is showing no tax.

I've attached screen shots of the Sales Tax setup in ecart, as well as the pertinent pages. I should mention, tax is only to be added if the ordering party is in Indiana ('IN') AND the item is marked taxable.

please provide a link where i can test this.

See private message...

when i go through the checkout page and select indiana as the state, i see the tax applied on the confirm page. see screen shot.