Transcript
Shipping zones and rates, where you are registered for tax, local rate tables, and checking the tax for an address.
0:00 Introduction
In this episode we set up shipping for more than one region, tell the store where it is registered for tax, and check what a shopper would be charged.
0:09 Shipping zones and rates
We are on Locations and shipping, on the Zones and rates tab. A zone is a group of places with its own rates. The United States zone has one rate, Standard shipping.
Let us add a faster option for the United States. Press Add a rate.
Call it Express, a flat rate of fourteen dollars ninety five, delivered in one to two days.
Press Save. The zone now lists both rates.
Now the rest of the world. Press New zone, call it Rest of the world, and instead of a country code, type an asterisk.
Save, and add a rate. This time open the Type menu. A rate can be flat, by weight, or by order value.
Choose By weight. The price is a base price, plus a price for each kilogram. We will use twelve dollars, and four dollars per kilogram.
And orders over three hundred dollars ship free. Delivery takes seven to twelve days. Press Save.
Both zones are listed with their rates. The most specific zone wins: a shopper in the United States gets the United States rates, and everyone else gets the rest of the world.
1:16 Where you collect tax
Now tax. The shop charges tax only where you are registered to collect it. Open Tax: the registrations come first. The store is registered in Massachusetts.
We also sell to shoppers in New York. Press Add registration, choose United States, and then New York, with the registration number.
Press Save. Two registrations are listed, and a warning card has appeared above them.
The warning says New York has local taxes, and only the state rate would be charged until you import a rate table, or use Stripe Tax.
First, another place. For shoppers in the European Union there is the One-Stop Shop scheme. Press Add registration, choose Germany, and open the Scheme menu.
Choose EU One-Stop Shop, type the registration number, and press Save. The scheme column shows it in the list.
2:14 Local rate tables
Back to New York. In the Local rate tables card, press Import rates. A rate table gives the county, city and district rates for each postal code.
Choose United States and New York, and name the table.
You can choose a CSV file, or paste the text, as we do here: two postal codes in Manhattan, each with a city rate and a district rate. Press Import.
The table is listed with its number of rows, and the warning about New York has gone. Orders to those postal codes in the shop are now charged the city and district rates too.
3:19 Checking the tax
The Preview tax card shows what the shop would charge for an address, without placing an order. We will try an address in Boston, Massachusetts: one hundred dollars of goods and ten dollars of shipping.
The result says it was decided by the built-in rules, and that we are registered here, so tax is charged. Each line shows its tax: Massachusetts sales tax, six and a quarter percent, at state level, on the item and on the shipping.
Now an address in Berlin, Germany, with the same amounts. Change the country to DE, clear the state, and press Preview tax.
The tax is German VAT, nineteen percent, charged at country level, because we hold a One-Stop Shop registration for the European Union.
At the bottom, About the built-in rates gives the date of the rates. Tax rates change often, so check them with your accountant before you file. Open What the rates cover for the details, region by region.
Shipping and tax are set. In the next episode we shop the store the way a customer does.