Adding Taxes

I have had my store up and running fairly smoothly for a while, but now I need to add tax for just one state. I apologize if this is a redundant thread, but I ran a search and could not find the info I am looking for.

How would I now go about adding in the tax rules? Do I first need to add something to my database? And then what?

When the user select s a state on the checkout page and pots to the confirm page, a session variable is create to hold the select ed state:
eCartCheckoutForm_state_province


on the confirm page, open the server behaviors panel. Double click the eCart object server behavior, it will be the first in the list, to open the eCart object editor.

On the Tax tab create a new tax rule.

Set the Triggers to:
If Session Variable exists "eCartCheckoutForm_state_province"


AND
based on Session variables value-
If the session variable "eCartCheckoutForm_state_province" has a value "=" to "CA"


Replace CA with the state abbreviation you wish to use.

For the calculation use:
Based On Taxable Subtotal
Cart Taxable Total 'Times" "<your tax rate>"

Thank you Jason, this solution sounds fairly straightforward, however what if I can only charge tax on some of the items in my store? How would I set it up so that the tax rule would only apply to certain items, but not other items?

Thanks!

Crate a column in your cart for taxable items, for examples sake lets call it "taxable"

in the add to cart button behavior, set the taxable column to 1 for taxable items and 0 for none taxable items.

When creating the tax rule, for the calculation use "Based on Items with a Specific Value":
Total of [TotalPrice] where [taxable] has a value of [1] [times] [<your tax rate>]

Jason,

Thanks for your help with this! I did everything you said throughout the thread for the state of VA only tax and the taxable items, however my subtotal and tax rows are not showing up on the confirm page. I think I may be able to fix this myself, but my main problem is I can't create the tax rule because the pull down menu does not show my new "taxable" column. Any ideas? Or, perhaps you have the php code for how this should look on the confirm page?

Thanks again!

The taxable column must be created in the cart object on the Columns tab.

Can you send screen shots showing the columns tab of the cart object and the problem you are having when creating the rule. compress them in a zip file and attach the zip file to your reply so they will be large enough to read.

Hi Sorry for the long delay on this. This project was temporarily put on hold and it is now back on. Please see the attached files. Can you please tell me why my taxes are not working at all and why my "Subtotal" and my "Taxes" are not showing up on my shopping_cart.php page? I have attached those files also. Let me know if you need anything else!

I am uploading the screenshots and the confirm.php page along with the shopping_cart.php page.

Thanks!!

There are no files attached to your reply.


Can you please send those files again so I can look into the problem.

Here are the attachments again.
Please help!

Thanks!

so your tax rule is dependant on the eCart_checkoutForm_State_Province session variable and the Taxable column.


To Trouble shoot the issue, crate a new PHP page, and add a cart display to it, on the second page of the cart display, click the plus button to add more columns to the cart display, selct the taxable column so we can see the value that is stored in that column. Then, from the bindings panel, add the eCart_checkoutForm_State_Province session variable binding to the page so we can see the value being stored there. Once you have created this cart display page, please provide a link so I can test your cart.